Newcastle Community Pantry – Blakelaw

The Newcastle Community Pantry is a low cost social supermarket. They help people who live in Blakelaw, on a low income save money on food bills. To use the service you register as a member and pay a subscription fee of £5. You can visit the Pantry every week and choose a minimum of 10 items to take home. This includes: fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy items, tinned food and other essential household items.

When you first join bring a letter with you to show your address. The pantry accepts Healthy Start vouchers. People with a voucher pay a reduced subscription fee of £2.50. To keep your membership active you need to visit once a month. Instead of prices they use symbols. These are:

*Red hearts for higher value items

Blue diamonds for lower value items

*Green stars show free items

*There may be a limit on the number of higher value or free items that you can choose

Newcastle Community Pantry is ran by Newcastle West End Foodbank and is part of the Your Local Pantry network.

They also run a Newcastle Community Pantry in Walker and a Community Pantry at Newcastle United Foundation