Find local, low cost, good quality food in your area

EGFG 2024

In Barnsley we want to make sure everyone can get affordable and nutritious food. We want this to be part of a diverse, inclusive and vibrant food economy.

Food security is our ability to access food, pay for it and prepare nutritious meals. Many people have issues due to the cost of living, and sometimes food seems like the easiest way to budget.

Barnsley's food ladder

Our food ladder is a way to scale food provision in an area and build local resilience in the face of food insecurity. The food ladder is made up of:

  • premium supermarkets and farm shops
  • German discount supermarkets
  • Barnsley markets
  • Good Food Pantries
  • Community Shop on the Go
  • Community Shop
  • Barnsley food banks
Food ladder

Find low cost food in your area

You can find local, low cost food places near you on our food map, including community fridges, pantries and food banks. Select an icon on the map to find out more about each location.

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Barnsley markets

Our markets are brimming with fruit, vegetables and fresh produce. Alongside traditional greengrocers, butchers and fishmongers, you can find delicatessens selling fresh olives and sweet pastries.

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Good Food Pantries

Barnsley’s Good Food Pantries provide sustainable and affordable food to local communities. Good Food Pantries are open to everyone - you simply pay a small fee each week which allows you access to the pantry and its produce.

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Barnsley Recovery Connections

Barnsley Recovery Connections is delivered by the recovery community at their local recovery hub. Other free activities are also available to support people either experiencing, or affected by someone else's, alcohol or substance use.

  • Provided by: Barnsley Recovery Steps, in partnership with Barnsley Recovery Connections

  • Address: McLintocks Recovery Hub (Crookes Street entrance), off Summer Lane, Barnsley, S70 2NZ

  • Opening times: Tuesday and Wednesday 12:30pm to 3:30pm

Honeywell Community Centre

  • Provided by: North Area Council

  • Address: Honeywell Community Centre, 59 Honeywell Street, Barnsley, S71 1PZ

  • Opening times: Wednesday 12pm to 2pm

The community room is open throughout the pantry session offering a warm and welcoming space. Members can enjoy free hot drinks and biscuits. Take a look at the Honeywell Pantry Facebook page.

St George's Church

Pantry sessions are delivered from a warm and welcoming space, where the kettle is always on for free tea or coffee and biscuits!

  • Provided by: St George's Church

  • Address: St Georges Church, York Street, Barnsley, S70 1BD

  • Opening times: Thursdays 12pm to 2pm

The Hub, Westgate

  • Provided by: Barnsley's 0-19 Children's Team

  • Address: The Hub, Westgate, Barnsley, S70 2DR

  • Opening times: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12pm to 2pm

The Hub is delivered by and on behalf of Barnsley care leavers.

Barugh Green

Crossroads Cafe

Crossroads are a community café based in Barugh Green. A warm welcome is offered to all.

  • Provided by: Crossroads

  • Address: Crossroads Cafe, 18 Barugh Green Road, Higham, Barnsley, S75 1JT

  • Opening times: Tuesday and Thursday from 11am to 2pm. Open one weekend a month - dates will be advertised via the Crossroads Cafe Facebook page.

  • The cafe accepts Healthy Start vouchers.

Cudworth

Darfield Road Community Centre

  • Provided by: BettaLives

  • Address: 157 Darfield Road, Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8RX

  • Opening times: Mondays 11am to 12:30pm

Hoyland

Cloughfields Community Centre

  • Provided by: Forge Community Partnership

  • Cloughfields Community Centre, The Parade Cloughfields Road, Hoyland, Barnsley, S74 0HR

  • Opening times: Monday 10am to 12pm

Lundwood

Priory Centre

  • Provided by: Barnsley Healthcare Federation

  • Address: Priory Centre, Pontefract Road, Barnsley, S71 5PN

  • Opening times: Tuesday 10:30am to 1pm, Thursday 2:30pm to 5:30pm

Royston

Manor Court Community Centre

  • Provided by: Royston Friends Association

  • Address: Manor Court Community Centre, West End Avenue, Royston, S71 4LN

  • Opening times: Friday 10am to 11:30pm

Thurnscoe

St Helen's Church

  • Provided by: St Helen's Church

  • Address: St Helen's Church Hall, High Street, Thurnscoe, Rotherham, S63 0SE

  • Opening times: Monday 10am to 12pm

Community Shop on the Go

Community Shop on the Go is a mobile food provision, run in partnership with the Community Shop. It takes great food to locations where it’s needed and sells it at a fraction of the usual cost.

You can now use your Rose Vouchers here to buy excellent quality fresh fruit and veg!

You can mix and match:

  • small bag - six items for £3

  • large bag - 12 items for £5

Visit Community Shop on the Go on Facebook for updates on the dates, times and venues.

Community Shop On The Go

Community Shop

The Community Shop provides access to low-cost food for those in most need. It provides its members with access to deeply discounted food, as well as life-changing learning and development programmes.

Community Shop is a hand up, not a handout. Membership is free and open to those who live locally and receive a means-tested benefit.

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Community Shop

Barnsley food banks

Working with Trussell Trust, Barnsley food banks provide emergency access to those in crisis.

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More ways to access food, advice and support

Find out about other schemes you may be eligible for to help you access food, including free school meals and Healthy Holidays clubs for children.

Healthy Start card

If you’re pregnant or have a child under four you could be eligible for a Healthy Start card to help you buy food and milk. Each week you could get:

  • £4.25 during pregnancy (from week 10)
  • £8.50 for children from birth to one
  • £4.25 for children between one and four

Apply for a Healthy Start card or find out about payments and where to shop. The Healthy Start card is accepted at local shops, supermarkets and the Good Food Pantry Crossroads Cafe.

Rose vouchers for fruit and vegetables

The Rose Vouchers scheme helps families on low incomes to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. It supports them to give their children the healthiest possible start.

A family can receive £3 of Rose Vouchers for each child every week, or £6 if the child is under one year old.

You can now use Rose Vouchers at Community Shop on the Go!

Vouchers are available from your local family hub.

Free school meals

School meals are a good way to ensure your child eats well at lunchtime.

If you or your child receives a certain benefit, they could be eligible for free school meals. This could save you up to £400 a year.

Apply for free school meals

Get involved

Find out more about becoming a Good Food Pantry, apply to host another food initiative or just get involved by donating.

Become a Good Food Pantry

A food pantry is a place that sells heavily discounted, quality food items to the local community. These pantries don’t make a profit. Money from sales is used to cover the cost of buying food and the running costs such as electricity and water.

Why become a Good Food Pantry?

By becoming a Good Food Pantry you can access help and support from Barnsley Council to get set up. All Good Food Pantries use the same brand, membership model and policies. This means members will enjoy the same great Good Food Pantry experience at each branch.

If you’re interested in being a Good Food Pantry host, email goodfoodpartnership@barnsley.gov.uk.

Other food innovation projects

If you have innovative ideas for sustainable ways to improve access to good food locally and would like to apply for funding, please fill in our food initiative funding application form and return it to goodfoodpartnership@barnsley.gov.uk.

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Donate to a Good Food Pantry

If you'd like to make a food donation to a Good Food Pantry, or if you grow food in your garden or on an allotment and want to share your surplus, please email us at goodfoodpartnership@barnsley.gov.uk.

Donations we've received

Cannon Hall Farm

Cannon Hall Farm was very proud to make a donation to Barnsley's Good Food Pantries, made up from generous donations from our staff. The pantries are located in areas where deprivation is high, and local residents may struggle to afford food.

The donations from our team were shared amongst Worsbrough Community Pantry, Good Food Pantry Royston, Good Food Pantry Employment and Learning Support Hub, and Good Food Pantry Honeywell.

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PHS

PHS donated a range of hygiene products which were shared with Good Food Pantry Royston, Good Food Pantry Employment and Learning Support Hub, and Good Food Pantry St George's Church.

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About the Good Food Barnsley Partnership

Find out more about what we do.

The Good Food Barnsley Partnership brings together Barnsley Council, the public sector, and third sector to promote healthy sustainable food, tackle food insecurity and diet related ill health, and build up community food knowledge and involvement.

Our goal is to make sure that everyone has access to the food they need to lead healthy and happy lives. You can read about our vision and priorities in our Food Access Plan.

The partnership meets regularly and our latest meeting minutes are below.

 

 

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