Fairbite Excess Food Club: Addressing Food Insecurity in Cambridge City

Fairbite Excess Food Club in Cambridge City provides a weekly shopping opportunity for members referred by community workers, offering supermarket waste items and extras like fresh fruit, vegetables, tampons, and baby food. With successful system operations and a growing membership, the club faces challenges with food supply reliability, membership limits, and crowd management. Plans include introducing chilled food, monitoring membership growth, rebuilding confidence in food supply, and strategizing for expansion.

• Food insecurity
• Community support
• Fairbite Food Club
• Cambridge City
• Food waste

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1. Fairbite Excess Food Club Members can shop once a week and select items from the shelves Members are referred by community workers to confirm eligibility Members pay 2 per visit, max two visit per week. Food stocks are supermarket waste via FareShare including fresh fruit and veg Fruit and veg and other items (tampons, baby food) provided as extras (help yourself) Opened in Jun 2018 Currently over 50 signed up members Averaging about 40 visits per week. Cambridge City Foodbank 2017(c)

2. Successes Systems are working well Membership registration Membership checking and recording in shop Ordering and shelf packing Extras and Fresh Food Baby food, female sanitary items available free Odd non-food stuff donated to foodbank Fresh fruit & veg from public Fresh fruit, veg & bakery items from FareShare Excellent atmosphere in shop for staff and members Some members are also volunteering to run the shop

3. Challenges Unreliable and unpredictable food supply from FareShare Limit to the number of members Crowd control at certain times

4. The numbers Shop Visits Active Members 25 50 45 20 40 35 15 30 25 10 20 15 5 10 5 0 0 Jun July Aug Sept

5. What next? Introduction of chilled food Monitoring member growth waiting list Re-establishing confidence in food supply Planning for growth