Community Fridges and Sharing Sheds

Sharing sheds and community fridges are stocked with surplus food that the shops can’t sell.

They might be worth highlighting to people you work with who:

• are struggling to buy food due to financial hardship

• want to reduce food waste

These are usually community run and can be accessed by anyone. To reduce waste, all food is free to take items. This is a win-win as people can take what they need to keep themselves going (particularly when foodbanks are closed). And since the focus is on reducing waste, there is no stigma attached.

Here are the sharing sheds we know about in Highland:

• Brora

• Castletown - coming soon

• Dornoch

• Inverness

• Kyle of Lochalsh

• Skye - Coop Car Park, Broadford

• Thurso

See the community fridge network for more information.