Below is a list of local food banks and soup/community kitchens:Â
Addiscombe
- St Mildred’s Parish Church: stmildredschurch.org.uk, Tel 0208 8655 1434.
East Croydon
- Revivify Croydon Community Foodbank: Delivery throughout Croydon (Referrals through statutory departments/local voluntary sector partners) info@revivifycommunity.co.uk, 07757 754637
New Addington and Fieldway
- Family Centre Fieldway: Food Stop, Tues/Weds 9.15-1pm and Food Stop Plus (over 65’s) on Friday 9.15-12. Food Stop Drop (Home deliveries of produce & meals) Friday 12.30-2.30pm. Tel 01689 844277 or familycentre.fieldway@virgin.net (membership fee £3.50)
- Salvation Army Church New Addington/The Vine Foodbank: Emergency food parcels for New Addington, Selsdon, Forestdale residents (must be referred), email for more information: emma.spencer@salvationarmy.org.uklesley.holland@salvationarmy.org.uk
- New Addington Baptist Church/The Community Family Project: Food parcels delivery on Mondays claire@newaddingtonbaptistchurch.co.uk
- Good Food Matters, meal distribution service in collaboration with the local Food banks, CVA and the Familly Centre Fieldway, amanda@foodmatters.org.uk
Norbury
- Cassandra Centre: Free Meal Delivery Service with delivery on Thursdays in April between 1-6pm in Norbury or Pollard Hill Area, admin@cassandracentre.org.uk, 07714735568 and 07852525468
- West Norwood: Norwood & Brixton Foodbank. Delivery in North Croydon, Monday – Friday with a valid food bank voucher, norwoodfoodbank@btinternet.comStreatham: SWAN foodbank South London. Delivering food packs. Requests by online referral form here or 07973501274/ 07828722091.
Purley
- Purley Food Hub: Delivery to CR2, CR5, CR04 CR8 on Wednesdays, 10-12 (referrals from professional agencies/NHS/Schools), purleyfoodhub@gmail.com, 07546 635295
- Purley Masjid Foodbank: Wednesdays 10am-11.30am. Basket, shopping trips, urgent supplies, prescriptions; management@purleymasjid.com
- Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church: £15 to £20 worth of fresh food and other groceries for £3.50 a week foodstop@ollbc.org.uk or call 0208 668 6260.
Selhurst
- Selhurst Food Bank & Community Kitchen (run by Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Church) provide hot take away meals and food/toiletry parcels every Tuesday at 6:00pm to 7:30pm. Get more information at: https://www.croydonadventist.org/community-kitchen/
- Guiding Hands: Deliveries of food parcels on Fridays to Selhurst and surrounding areas. Bookings online at https://www.guidinghands.org.uk/book-online
Selsdon
- Selsdon Food Hub: this is a partnership arrangement between Selsdon Contact, Selsdon Centre for the Retired, Monks Hill Food Stop, the local Selsdon Churches including Croydon Jubilee Church, GP Surgeries, Vintage 62 and Sainsbury, Croydon High School, the local Fire Brigade and local butcher Bashford & co. A door delivery service of free ‘essentials’ shopping bags and a weekly cooked meal. 020 8651 4944, info@selsdoncontact.org.uk or jaz.potter@croydon-jubilee.co.uk.
Shirley
- The Shrublands trust, food bank on Broom Road, Info@shrublandstrust.org or 020 3441 7887.
South Croydon
- St Francis Church Food Stop: Friday 9.30 -1pm by appointment and deliveries to those who self isolating in Monks Hill, Selsdon and Forestdale area, stfrancisselsdon@gmail.com or 02086577864.
South Norwood
- South Norwood Community Kitchen: Delivery of meals/food parcels every Tuesday and Saturday, hello@southnorwoodcommunitykitchen.co.uk
- Oasis Community Hub: Deliveries in Norwood Junction, Dave.Jones@oasisuk.orgRapture Community Project
Thornton Heath
- Age UK: food and essential hygiene items for older people, asc@adviceservicescroydon.org.uk or 020 8686 0066
- Elim Pentecostal Church_Thornton Heath Food Hub, Alive Community Centre: delivery of food parcels and prescriptions in Thornton Heath,nickgray@mershamroad.org or thehub@mershamroad.org
- His Grace Foodbank, His Grace Evangelical Outreach: Food bank for families and vulnerable people in need info@hisgrace-evangelicaloutreach.co.uk · Food Stop Thornton Heath, Wednesdays only, GCC@croydon.gov.uk
- Project 4 Youth Empowerment (P4ye), presently also delivering hot meals to the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating in the Croydon area from 5pm on Wednesday and Saturdays. Preferred method of contact request by contact form at www.p4ye.co.uk Croydon Mosque & Islamic Centre: Food pack delivery within 3-mile radius of Croydon Mosque, 020 8684 8200, tanveersajjid@hotmail.com or nadir1@btinternet.com
West Croydon
- MUC Soup Kitchen, Croydon Muslim Association: Soup kitchen providing 125 hot packed meals every Friday at 7pm, tamkin@gmail.com or jav7860@gmail.com
- Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA): Delivery service of food parcels to the self-isolating/elderly across Croydon and to other Food Banks when possible. Call 0208 253 1268 or email Shalina.Alabaksh@cvalive.org.uk.
- Croydon Foodbank Trussell Trust: https://croydon.foodbank.org.uk/locations/ Delivery through Croydon croydonfoodbank@mail.com
- Holistic Wellness Hub (HWH): Monday to Saturday, 2-5pm, hwhcentre@gmail.com
- The Well_Croydon Salvation Army: Food parcels and delivery, chris.waldock@salvationarmy.org.uk or 020 86809924.
- Asian Resource Centre of Croydon (ARCC): Tuesday delivery to registered members. Also cooked meals, 020 8684 3784 or info@arccltd.com
- British Bangladeshi Society Croydon: Every Sunday, 12- 2pm, collection must be arranged by telephone or email, 07956418794 or eawor.ali@gmail.com