AR Projects — food bank and soup kitchens in Croydon
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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.
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The difference, in real numbers
Six years. One community. Thousands fed.
Since 2020
70,000+
hot meals cooked fresh and handed out to hungry neighbours on the streets of Croydon.
Cooked every month
800
hot meals for empty stomachs — served hot, twice a week, no questions asked.
Packed every month
900
emergency food parcels for families going through the hardest weeks.
And not stopping
6
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
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.
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.
Latest updates & stories
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New here every month — kitchen news, event round-ups and what your support made happen.