Beacon Hub at West Norwood Community shop

The hub is open every week on Thursdays from 9:30-12:30 for members of the community to drop in, enjoy a free hot drink, snack and access information, advice as well as health services such as blood pressure checks, vaccines, mental health support.

The Community Shop is an amazing resource for people in Norwood who are in receipt of any state benefit. While in the past, The Community Shop offered cafe facilities and tailored, professional development programmes for its members, in the current crisis many of its staff have been furloughed and it has had to suspend all but the basic shop service. If you have some free time and would like to help in the shop, they are looking for volunteers to help them provide this very useful service to

The Community shop redistributes food and household products from major retailers and brands. It receives daily. The surplus products may have minor labelling errors, be excess seasonal products or have a short shelf life and would therefore normally be thrown away as a waste by the retailers. If you have not shopped there before, it’s basically a normal supermarket but one where you can buy high quality food and household brands at super low prices.