Empowering through nutrition
The Pantry is a food hub with a difference. We offer an emergency safety net and a sustainable route out of poverty within six months.
What The Pantry offers
The Pantry offers personal face-to-face support along with high quality, nutritious and healthy food to those struggling to feed themselves and their families - those held back by poverty, addiction and mental health issues.
We couple healthy food with a healthy shopping experience. Our knowledgeable and experience staff provide impartial information and advice along with support from our trained Peer Advisors, who help address the underlying issues leading to poverty. People using the Pantry pay a weekly subscription of £3.50 and in return are able to access an abundance of affordable, nutritious food. This in conjunction with the advice and guidance help them move towards independence. By coupling healthy food with expert advice, we empower individuals and families to overcome the barriers they face and break the cycle of poverty.
The food distributed by the Pantry is sustainably sourced and would otherwise gone to landfill. The Pantry offers a sustainable model for both decreasing food dependency in lower income families and responding to overproduction.
Take a look at our Pantry referrals form online.
We have five Pantry services in Camberwell, Kensington and Stamford Hill. To contact them click here.
St Giles Pantry Camberwell: 62 Camberwell Church Street, London, SE5 8QZ
St Giles Pantry South Kensington: Ixworth Place, Kensington & Chelsea, SW3 3QA
St Giles Pantry Hackney: Stamford Hill Community Centre, Hackney, N16 6RS
St Giles Pantry Islington:Â Unit A, 30 North Road, Market Estate, London N7 9GJ
St Giles Pantry Kensal Resource Centre:Â Kensal Resource Centre, Bosworth Rd, London W10 5EQ
The Leeds Pantry helps people in the city facing food poverty. To contact the Leeds Pantry click here.
Phone:
0113 819 5919
Address:
105 Chapeltown Road,
Leeds
LS7 3HY
Located in Coventry, the Midlands Pantry offers healthy, sustainable food to people experiencing poverty in the city. To contact the Midlands Pantry click here
Address:
3 Castle Yard, Hay Lane, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 5RF
41, 43 Station Rd,
Colwyn Bay
LL29 8BP
St Saviours Church,
Magdalen Street,
Norwich,
Norfolk,
NR3 1AA
The Pantry: Client stories
"The St Giles Pantry has been a blessing. I am able to cook and eat a balanced meal every day. The staff are on hand to help me with any social issues I may have and can and will signpost me to another agency that can help me. They are kind and friendly, polite and never put me down or look down on me. They encourage me to pick healthy things and help me. The Pantry provides good food for people like myself who are struggling. Confidentiality is their policy and have great discretion compared to a food bank where everyone knows your business and people know what you’re going in there for. Without this service I would have had to skip meals. I am so grateful to you at St Giles for providing this service. I am truly grateful."
St Giles Pantry ClientÂ
"You cannot begin to understand and I have no words to express how The Pantry is helping this young family by providing them with healthy nutritious top-ups."
St Giles Caseworker
How you can support The Pantry
Make a donation
We rely on voluntary donations to continue our work with some of society’s most vulnerable people. Just £5 could feed a family for five days.Â
Fundraise for us
Why not join our team of supporters and take part in an event to raise money for our work? Together, we can help even more families move away from food poverty for good.
Donate food
Could your business support our Pantry services across the UK by donating surplus food and essential items?
Corporate Partnerships
Our corporate partners play a vital role in ensuring we can help more people turn their lives around and create positive futures.
