AR Projects — food bank and soup kitchens in Croydon

AR Projects — Community Support

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Everyone deserves equal opportunities in life.

Serving Croydon since 2020.

Two soup kitchens a week.

Hot meals cooked fresh and surplus food parcels — just turn up.

A food bank for the hardest weeks.

Emergency parcels, packed to your needs.

Workshops that open doors.

Skills and training for what comes next.

Up to 800 hot meals & 900 parcels, every month.

All of it powered by volunteers.

A community, supporting its own.

AR Projects · Croydon Community Interest Company.

What brings
you here?

So the next page can greet you properly.

I want to attend an eventWalks, community days and gatherings — see what's coming up.What's on

The difference, in real numbers

Six years. One community. Thousands fed.

Volunteers serving hot meals at the AR Projects soup kitchen

Since 2020

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hot meals cooked fresh and handed out to hungry neighbours on the streets of Croydon.

People gathering at the AR Projects gazebo for a hot meal

Cooked every month

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hot meals for empty stomachs — served hot, twice a week, no questions asked.

A volunteer carrying food parcels at the AR Projects food bank

Packed every month

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emergency food parcels for families going through the hardest weeks.

An AR Projects volunteer with the van that carries surplus food

And not stopping

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years feeding Croydon — week in, week out, rarely a night missed.

AR Projects is a grassroots Community Interest Company, run by people with lived experience — two soup kitchens a week, a food bank and workshops, supporting Croydon since 2020. Support that helps people stand on their own.

Supported by

The National Lottery

National Lottery funding · Tesco Community Grants

The updates board

What's happening
at AR Projects

Upcoming events, monthly updates and stories from the kitchens — everything going on, in one place.

★ Upcoming eventFundraising walk

Stride Against Hunger 2026

A sponsored walk and community picnic. We gather, walk together, then share food in the park — all ages welcome, and every participant gets a Stride Against Hunger t-shirt. Every pound raised goes straight to our soup kitchen and food bank.

Sun 16 Aug1–5pmBeddington Park6K walkFree t-shirtAll ages welcome
Stride Against Hunger 2026 — 6K walk and community picnic