KEYNSHAM FOOD CO-OPERATIVE


Run by the members for the members

By Joining Keynsham food co-operative you get an amazing opportunity to purchase in bulk from the Essential Trading Co-operative . Browse their extensive range and you’ll find all your health food store favourites from organic pasta to recycled toilet paper and more exotic and luxurious products such as organic chocolate liquor, which are unavailable elsewhere in Keynsham!


Benefit of Membership

• The opportunity to shop from a massive range, usually unobtainable in Keynsham.

• Get from 20% to 40% discount for bulk buying.
• Save time and fuel with less shopping trips.
• Put in a regular order for products you use a lot, then add other items to your order or not as you need.

• Easy ordering via email.
• Split cases of less used items, with other members.


Benefits to the Environment

• Shopping through a co-op reduces your impact on the environment in at least three ways:

  1. Trips to the supermarket are greatly decreased, thus saving fuel and also the food miles that supermarkets clock up through importation and distribution.

2. By buying in bulk the amount of packaging used is reduced leading to less waste.

3. A majority of the goods are organic, thus supporting sustainable and harmonious farming.


• Supporting local co-ops like Essential Trading puts money back into your community. As they stock fairly-traded products where possible, sustainable practices are being supported with farmers abroad.


How it works

• A food co-operative is simply a group of people who get together to buy in bulk at a discounted rate.

• Members place an order every few weeks, (four to six depending on demand).

• Place and pay for your order one week before delivery

• Collect your order two to three days after delivery


Contact us

For more information on joining us, helping out and saving money, call or email for more details on: 0117 986 2257 or mandd@gentlyblown.co.uk


What is available

• Virtually anything that is sold in a wholefood shop is available, most of which is organic and fair trade.

• Things you use a lot of; staples like, baked beans, soya milk, breakfast cereals, flour (if you make your own bread), rice, tea, coffee, Yannoh, etc.

• Some cleaning materials, toiletries, tissues and toilet paper etc.

• Many supplements and items like hemp seed oil are available singly, still at wholesale prices.

• Organic wines, spirits and soft drinks.

• Others members may be willing to split cases with you.


Membership

Food co-ops are run by volunteers so, all members have to pay a small joining fee of £1 pound for lifetime membership. Members must continue to make at least one order on an annual basis. Membership is deemed to have lapse if no order is made for a year and membership they must renewed to enable further orders to be made.

A 3% charge is added to the wholesale prices to cover administration cost.


We use the Co-operative Bank for Keynsham Food Co-op’s banking in support of their ethical Investments.




c/o 26 Lockingwell Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2HG