(Picture: Sebastian Wood)

If you’re sick of reading about how much food we waste in London, you need to get yourself down to Brixton.

The capital’s first ‘community fridge’ has just launched in the area and aims to provide food to those in need.

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It’s a public enterprise where local businesses, traders, and residents can donate spare food – cutting local food waste and encouraging food sharing

The People’s Fridge is located in Pop Brixton – an outdoor space run by foodie stalls and independent businesses – and those who need the food can just take it for free.


There are currently around 8.4 million people in the UK (which is the equivalent to the whole of London), living in food poverty.

(Picture: Sebastian Wood)

Meanwhile, it’s thought that we chuck away about 7 million tonnes of food and drink every year.



These community fridges seek to bridge that gap by saving food from market stalls, restaurants, local stores and homes and allowing those who can’t afford nutritious groceries to eat well for nothing.

It’s not the first of it’s kind; community fridges already exist in countries like Spain, Germany and elsewhere in the UK, but this is the only one currently operating in London.

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The project began with a group of volunteers from co-working space Impact Hub Brixton, who set up a crowdfunding campaign to get it going.

They exceeded their £1,000 target in just three days and over the course of a month raised £2,000.

‘We’d love to see more fridges in the area but we don’t have plans to launch any more at this stage,’ said a spokesperson for the group.

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