Foodprint social supermarket
Sneinton
Nottingham’s First Social Supermarket and Surplus Food Redistribution Network
Food waste shouldn’t coexist with people struggling to afford nutritious food. We tackle this imbalance directly, redirecting food that is perfectly fit for consumption but would otherwise go to waste.
We are a social enterprise started by students at the University of Nottingham, selling surplus food at greatly reduced prices through our low-cost social supermarket in Sneinton, Nottingham. We also act as an intermediary between supermarkets, wholesalers, charities and the people of Nottingham to redistribute food.
We intercept and redistribute surplus food that would otherwise end up in landfill and is no longer fit for sale by supermarkets.We receive donated surplus food through our partnerships with FareShare and Neighbourly, amongst other local food outlets that we work with.
We do have to cover the costs of receiving and transporting the surplus food we receive, as well as the costs of running our small business although it is run by volunteers. Prices may differ between weeks to subsidise some of these costs.