Glasgow-based ethical grocery business Locavore has launched a £50,000 crowdfund to help it survive the cost-of-living crisis.
The company has four shops across central Scotland, four organic market gardens, and a central hub where it packs veg boxes and delivers wholesale orders to other retailers around the country. It also has a kitchen supplying its cafes and shops and runs projects like community plots at Bellahouston, and the Good Food Fund which gets good food to those in most need.
Locavore says: “Unfortunately this is all now under critical threat as we face the most difficult period in our 11-year history.”
The company has already closed Locavore Garnethill after struggling to make the branch work since it opened, and sales were no longer growing. It has also reviewed and is changing opening hours at its branches.
In addition, Locavore is reducing staff hours in all shops. In some branches this will have limited impact on its team as it’ll be achieved through not replacing hours that have become available, but in others, there will almost certainly be redundancies.
Locavore said: “We don’t want to do this but it needs to be done, we are sorry.”
Glasgow Community Climate Action Fund is providing £5,997 of match funding through its Community Climate Action Programme and at the time of writing the crowdfund has raised more than £12,000.
