Feeding Britain
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Feeding Britain - The story of one shop in South Yorkshire which is changing the way we think about food waste and food poverty. A year ago the Community Shop opened in Goldthorpe. It takes food which would otherwise have gone to landfill and sells it at a heavily discounted price.
Now the model is expanding. This Monday, 15th December, a new community shop is opening in Lambeth, South London. The aim is for dozens of these stores to be across the country.
This week's Food Poverty Inquiry 'Feeding Britain' recommended more of these social supermarkets. But some people do not believe that the problem of food waste should solve the problem of food poverty.
Presented by Dan Saladino and produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
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| 0:42.0 | South London, the Borough of Lambeth, and I'm struggling to find the capital's newest food |
| 0:47.0 | shop. There are no other shops around me, just long residential streets, but then through a metal gate next to a concrete play area |
| 0:55.4 | where kids are playing football, a two-story building comes into view. And at first |
| 1:00.6 | glance, it says industrial estate more than food. |
| 1:05.0 | It was actually a shower block for the refuge guys. |
| 1:08.0 | This is part of the old recycling centre that was the refuge center for Lambeth Council. |
| 1:14.8 | It was very dark, it was very dank and we've put a lot of TLC into this building. |
| 1:20.1 | And so when you go inside this former shower block, you step into a new, bright and welcoming place. |
| 1:26.4 | You can still smell the fresh paint, and today people started to arrive to do most of their weekly food shop. Showing me around is Mark Game. |
| 1:35.6 | You're looking at a thousand square foot, about the size of a convenience store, |
| 1:40.0 | and in here you will see fresh wholesome deeply discounted food. |
| 1:45.0 | When you say deeply discounted food, how deeply discounted? |
| 1:49.0 | Well we're about a third of high street prices, so anything from maybe 10% to 50% but we average around a third of high street |
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