The People’s Supermarket Mission statement:
Our vision is to create a commercially sustainable, social enterprise that achieves its growth and profitability targets whilst operating within values based on community development and cohesion. Our intent is to offer an alternative food buying network, by connecting an urban community with the local farming community.

Vision and Values:
The Supermarket is a sustainable food cooperative that responds to the needs of the local community and provides healthy, local food at reasonable prices. To this end, we believe in a series of key values, which guide our philosophy and management approach. We seek:

- To create a supermarket that meets the needs of its members and the local community by offering high quality, healthy food at reasonable prices.
- To buy from trusted suppliers with whom we develop mutually sustaining relationships.
- To buy British produce where possible, and produce local to London.
- Provide choice and information to our members to help them make healthy decisions.
- To create a community supermarket that highlights the possibilities of consumer power and challenges the status quo.
- To minimise wastage, by creating prepared dishes from food coming up to its sell-by date, and by composting all other waste material.
- To provide inspirational training and life skill opportunities to the local community
- To create a working environment that values every one’s contribution, is welcoming, safe and non-judgmental
- To be a training and development resource for our community.
- To buy sustainable energy and other inputs, and to promote alternative, forward thinking ideas and solutions.

The People’s Supermarket Mission statement:
Our vision is to create a commercially sustainable, social enterprise that achieves its growth and profitability targets whilst operating within values based on community development and cohesion. Our intent is to offer an alternative food buying network, by connecting an urban community with the local farming community.

Vision and Values:
The Supermarket is a sustainable food cooperative that responds to the needs of the local community and provides healthy, local food at reasonable prices. To this end, we believe in a series of key values, which guide our philosophy and management approach. We seek:

- To create a supermarket that meets the needs of its members and the local community by offering high quality, healthy food at reasonable prices.
- To buy from trusted suppliers with whom we develop mutually sustaining relationships.
- To buy British produce where possible, and produce local to London.
- Provide choice and information to our members to help them make healthy decisions.
- To create a community supermarket that highlights the possibilities of consumer power and challenges the status quo.
- To minimise wastage, by creating prepared dishes from food coming up to its sell-by date, and by composting all other waste material.
- To provide inspirational training and life skill opportunities to the local community
- To create a working environment that values every one’s contribution, is welcoming, safe and non-judgmental
- To be a training and development resource for our community.
- To buy sustainable energy and other inputs, and to promote alternative, forward thinking ideas and solutions.

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Donate a Membership ?

As The Peoples Supermarket is committed to supporting our local community, we are now pleased to report that we’re introducing “Donate a Membership”.
By donating a one off payment of £25.00 you can support someone less fortunate then yourself to become a member of the store. By becoming a member they would be committed to providing 4 or more hours voluntary service to the store and the wider community. Your donation would provide access to such skills as work experience, first aid training, food preparation and ultimately provide educational skills to a future back into full time employment.

Memberships

1 Membership £25.00 GBP 2 Memberships £50.00 GBP 3 Memberships £75.00 GBP 4 Memberships £100.00 GBP

 The People’s Kitchen

One of the ambitions of The People’s Supermarket is the reduction of food waste     generated by the store and subsequently taken to landfill. Not only does it make good environmental sense to reduce the amount thrown away, it also has sound commercial logic, as less waste equals more profit. In September 2010, the store acquired a complete ex-demonstration domestic kitchen. Included in the donation were appliances, work surfaces, cupboards and some cutlery and crockery. The kitchen was installed on the sales floor at the rear of the store; with the objective to create healthy, nutritious ready meals for customers buy and eat at home. All the ingredients come from the range sold in the store and where possible from items that have reached their sell-by date or are past their best. From day one, the kitchen has been a huge success –

-    Commercially it has generated additional sales per week, from soups, salads, sandwiches and ready to eat dinners.
o    The demand for The People’s Kitchen products is so high that we cannot satisfy it and we sell out on a daily basis.
-    Environmentally on average 100kgs of waste per week are processed through the kitchen. o    What is not used in the kitchen is sent to compost at a local garden project. o    The store no longer generates enough waste to satisfy demand for The People’s Food so it
now takes in additional products from its fruit & vegetable supplier.

-    Socially we have created four jobs; our chefs, who were all previously unemployed, work Monday
to Saturday.

o    Our members are gaining life skills through direct hands on working in the kitchen,
including food hygiene training, cookery lessons and teamwork.

o    None of our homemade food contains unhealthy preservatives, colourings, or excessive sugar.

We have received several enquires to provide local businesses and corporations with food. We currently supply prepared food for external catering events on an ad hoc basis; over past few months this amounted to breakfast for 120 people, 100 salads, 500 sandwiches, 60 hot lunches and 2 private functions. All of these were competitively priced and repeat orders have already been received. However the pressure on the current kitchen has been tremendous and continues to represent a challenge to the provision of food for the lunchtime and evening trade.