budgets. Its pantries also function as social hubs where visitors can access refreshments, informal conversation, and signposting to statutory care or partner support services. Baobab Bach develops and coordinates a network of fixed and mobile community pantry locations in collaboration with local libraries, theatres, and other community spaces. The organization emphasizes reducing food waste and supporting community wellbeing through its food access and social support activities. All services are structured to reinvest any surplus into sustaining and expanding community benefit activities.