Our Action Research and Development project will enable Stockport Homes’ austerity retailer "Your Local Pantry" https://www.yourlocalpantry.co.uk/ to retail non-surplus food to its members to supplement the dwindling supplies of surplus and donated food available to them, without having to raise their weekly membership fees. It will do this by working with Probation Community Payback Teams to:

• grow fresh seasonal fruit, vegetables and salads on church-owned and other unused and under-used public land for donation to the Pantries
• grow and retail house and garden plants direct to the public through Community Payback-staffed ‘pop-up’ plant sales and makers markets to generate new income streams for the Pantries to bulk-buy their own supplies of locally produced non-surplus food.This project is funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority through the Foundational Economy Innovation Fund

This project is funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority through the Foundational Economy Innovation Fund