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CORVEDALE FOOD CO-OP · WHERE A £100 SHOP GOES

Of every £100 at our till, £58 goes back to the farm.

We are owned by 2,140 members and the growers who stock us. Every spring we open the books and show where the money from an ordinary shop ended up.
A typical £100 shop
1 square = £1
Squares fill left to right in the order of the key.
Growers and makers
Paid to 212 farms, bakers and makers within 30 miles
£58
Wages
Twenty-six staff, all on at least the real living wage
£19
The shop itself
Rent, energy, bins and the card machine
£11
Getting it here
Van, fuel and returnable crates
£7
Members’ fund
Kept by the co-op and spent as the AGM decides
£5
Total, rounded to the pound
£100
Year to 5 April 2026, from the audited accounts. A typical shop is the average basket across both branches, £31.40, scaled up to £100.
Read the full accounts →
£1.94m
paid to growers and makers in 2025/26
212
suppliers, the furthest 29 miles away
0
outside shareholders taking a dividend