A community grocery has been operating in Toxteth since November 2022 selling food at reduced rates.
The charity, The Message Trust, in partnership with churches runs 21 community grocery stores across the UK including its Liverpool store on Upper Mann Street in Liverpool 8. In 2020, during Covid, the charity delivered 60,000 meals and food parcels to families and homes across Wythenshawe who found it difficult to put food on the table.
As lockdown lifted the need to help people was not only still there, but was getting worse. The charity felt it could not stand by and do nothing and the idea of a community grocery was born.
