@CommunityShops

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Joined August 2013
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Meet Michelle who was finding it hard to make ends meet so she joined @CommunityShops where she now saves money 💰 on her shopping, and can buy quality, healthy food 🥦 for her children. Here’s a snippet of her story 👇 #TheSurplusEffect #Community #Food
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Meet Hollie 👩 , one of our amazing Community Wellbeing Practitioners. We have wellbeing practitioners in all of our @CommunityShops helping and supporting our members with learning and development programmes. Find out more 👉 zurl.co/WuLB #thesurpluseffect
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.@CommunityShops Hoyland is now open! It's our 13th store, providing access to deeply discounted food and household products, and life-changing development programmes. Thanks to @CocaColaEP & @BarnsleyCouncil for their funding to help open our latest store.
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In a year that continued to be economically challenging for many businesses we paid back £47m 💰to partners for surplus, a 20% increase 💰💰 on the previous year. That's more than £158m 💰💰💰 in the last 5 years! Find out more bit.ly/3T3oMRw
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Today, we’re launching our latest impact report & #TheSurplusEffect - a campaign to build lasting partnerships🤝across the industry & create a ripple of change for a better world. Take a look and find out more about #TheSurplusEffect bit.ly/49Ynn4H
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When we created @CommunityShops we wanted to do more than just give out food. We wanted to give a hand up, not a hand out, & build stronger individuals & more confident communities 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Working with 100's of partners 🤝 we've delivered on this promise & supported 61,498 families🙌
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Liz Kendall@leicesterliz12 Jan 2024
Loved visiting Leicester’s Community Shop: selling affordable food (av. 70% discount) & household goods, offering new skills, where people can cook & eat together. Employs local residents & puts profit back into community too. Brilliant model building self reliance & self esteem
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Our @CommunityShops are serving 1,800+ Christmas dinners this week, all thanks to @AldiUK who have supplied everything you need for a proper Christmas dinner. 🎅 🎥 Here's what our members had to say youtu.be/4kklcLFNWjc
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Our Community Shops have been 'open for more' for 10 YEARS! 🎊 And tonight we're celebrating a decade of Community Shops with a special event in London, where we can also thank our partners for their continued support (plus with a VIP guest...!) Keep your 👀peeled for more soon
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It's Circular Economy Week! We're proud to be helping create a circular economy and a world where no surplus product goes to waste 🌍👏 Find out more about how important a circular economy is here: 👉 wrap.org.uk/taking-action/fo…
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Onward Homes@Onward_Homes29 Jun 2023
Onward, @ConnollyLtd & @CommunityShops have worked together this week to create a new community project in #Kirkdale . 'Urban Roots' is a new growing space for the group. We can’t wait to see how the space develops over the summer!
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Fantastic to see the amazing work going on at @CommunityShops Tong Street today. Lots of hard work that brings residents and community groups together - making a real local difference!
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Ryan Hunkin@ryan_h2330 May 2023
Great morning of learning vital life skills for our scholars, big thanks to @CommunityShops for providing the ingredients, equipment and our nutritionist for the year – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
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@OfficialBullsRL30 May 2023
👨‍🍳 | Our Scholars were taking part in a nutrition workshop earlier today! 🥗 | They learnt about different food types and how they’re used for energy before making a Chicken Caesar salad!
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Another day and another successful learning event @CommunityShops #Halton. This space has been an amazing and we really appreciate being able to use it regularly. It was fantastic to see clients and clinicians joining in the session together ☺️. Another @MattersJt masterclass 🤩
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By thinking differently about surplus, we’ve created some BIG numbers together over the last year… * 109m items saved from waste * £39m paid back to partners for their surplus stock * 28,186 households supported through Community Shop Read our report: bit.ly/3YEgVtg
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A Christmas dinner isn’t always an option for everyone so we’re doing something amazing with a special partner this week. Thanks to the support of @Ocado we're welcoming over 1,500 members into @CommunityShops to celebrate Christmas dinner together.
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Our 11th @CommunityShops opens early next year, thanks to support from @Ocado & @WarringtonBC. @CommunityShops Bewsey, Warrington, will provide access to deeply discounted food & life-changing learning and development programmes. companyshopgroup.co.uk/news/…
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And so we press on…..our team of nurses and health ambassadors who work week in and week out ⁦@CommunityShops⁩ to address the health & wellbeing of #lambeth residents. #addressinghealthinequalities ⁦@LambethTogether⁩ ⁦@AscensionTrust⁩
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We’re delighted to be working again with our partners Samworth Brothers and Leicester City Council to deliver the ‘Pop-up Pantries’ holiday food programme. Community Shop Stocking Farm will once again be hosting one of the pantries, providing access to fresh and healthy food.
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We’re delighted that @CommunityShops has been shortlisted in @Foodanddrinkfed Awards 2022, Community Partner category. Our vision is to build stronger individuals & more confident communities. Thanks to all our colleagues & partners for helping to achieve this. 🙌 #FDFAwards
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