Community fridges

Community fridges can be accessed by anyone who wants to share food, volunteer or get involved with other activities the group have to offer related to food or the environment.

You can view our UK fridge map to find your nearest community fridge.

Here's some ways you can get involved:

• spread the word with the hashtag #CommunityFridge
• share surplus food that you’re not going to use, perhaps you’re:
  • a gardener
  • going on holiday
  • just about to move house
• take food from the fridge to save you buying new items and help reduce food waste
• volunteer your time to support your local community fridge including by:
  • collecting surplus food from shops
  • come up with plans for fundraising
  • promote the initiative locally
  • develop their activities

Each year the Community Fridge Network redistributes the equivalent of over 17.1 million meals (over 7,200 tonnes of food surplus) to over 460,000 visitors.

With each fridge sharing an average of 2.4 tonnes of food per month, the collective impact of the Community Fridge Network is huge.

What’s more important though, are the stories that we hear from communities.

The fridges:

• bring people together
• address social isolation
• provide people with the opportunity to:
  • access healthy food
  • try something new
  • save money

In a nutshell, a fridge is often so much more than a fridge. As well as introducing you to new people and foods, Community Fridges host all kinds of activities such as cooking workshops, food growing, clothes swaps... you name it.