Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church Foodshop

What is the Food Stop?

We believe that everybody should thrive and enjoy a full life but for many people in our community, this is not the case! Too many people in our community continue to struggle to even put food on the table for themselves and their family due to being on benefits, low wages and high rents, illness and disabilities… the list goes on. The current economic crisis and cost of living rises have made things even harder for people already finding things hard. This is why we have partnered with Croydon Council and the food charity Fare Share to support our community in this time of difficulty and crisis.

The Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church Food Stop is a community-led, multi-agency model that seeks to help people in our community to become more financially stable by providing a range of practical support and advocacy through partners and our own ‘in house’ support team. Each week we offer those that come the opportunity to reduce their food shopping bills by inviting them to pay £3.50 a week for around £15-£20 worth of fresh, chilled, frozen and tinned grocery shopping at our purpose built ‘social supermarket’ space each Friday morning (9am-12pm). This helps regular users of the shop save an average of £500-£700 per year.