We have just made two new videos. The first looks at the growth and development of Ashton Pantry. The second was made during the recent visit of Councillor Chris Ready. We hope you enjoy them.
Our vision is to sustainably feed the people of Ashton both physically and spiritually.
We opened Ashton Pantry, a Church Wigan food outlet, in May 2021 in one side of the church hall. We work with other pantries in Church Wigan and are supported by a great team of volunteers! Our intercepted food comes from FareShare, local warehouses, supermarkets, local fast food outlets and any other sources we can find. This food may be close to its best before date or beyond in some case, but is perfectly edible and too good to throw away! We don’t ever provide food past its use by date.
The pantry is open on
- Tuesdays 11-12
- Thursdays 2-3
- Sunday 3-4
We operate on a #PayAsYouFeel basis with an annual membership subscription of £5 and we ask for a minimum contribution of £3 per shop of up to 15 food items towards our running costs. We’ll let you know if we have an abundance of certain items and other information on our Facebook page.
We are open as a Warm Space with refreshments for half an hour before opening each day.
The current pantry accommodation is only a temporary arrangement as we are working towards setting up a purpose built food pantry and commercial grade kitchen in the middle of the two wings of the hall. The new kitchen will provide #PayAsYouFeel meals using intercepted food and buying in additional food when needed. We aim to deliver cooking classes to help build people’s confidence to cook from scratch.
If you would like to support our building project, you can donate here
