Tag: Community Shop

Frozen potato manufacturer McCain funds new Community Shop to support local community

Stuart Mitchell

McCain Foods, the UK’s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, is partnering with Community Shop to open a new social supermarket store in Eastfield, North Yorkshire – the home of McCain GB since 1969. Community Shop is an award winning social enterprise, which redistributes surplus food and household products through its network of 11 Community Shops across the country, selling products to local members at deeply discounted prices. Opening its doors this summer, the new Eastfield store will be the first to open in North Yorkshire and will support around…

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Purina donates 1 million pet food pouches to help families in need

Stuart Mitchell

Purina Petcare, Europe’s leading pet care company, is donating 1 million pet food pouches from its Felix and Gourmet ranges to Community Shop, a social enterprise supermarket, which sells food to its members at heavily discounted prices.  It comes at a time when support for pet owners is more important than ever and will help to feed much-loved pets in families who are on the cusp of food poverty, while making sure that perfectly good products don’t go to waste. Purina has donated to Community Shop in the past, most…

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