Everything for Everyone
We share all resources, so every member gets what they need.
A Mutually-Trading Organization
Food & Solidarity is a member-led, not-for-profit, mutually-trading company limited by guarantee, operating in a way that is distinct from charities.
Based on principles of solidarity and not charity, members work in ways that support the lives of their fellow members, looking after one another. The aim is to avoid degrading volunteer-beneficiary dynamics. By all members paying membership fees and having an equal vote and an equal say in how things are done, regardless of whether they pay more or less into the pot, we work toward this aim.
This model helps the organisation resist the call to make access means-tested. It means there is no need to create 'poverty porn' to attract funders, and no need to intrude on members' lives to prove impact by exposing the details of their suffering.
It also means the organisation is free to make powerful people its targets when necessary. When community groups rely on handouts from local authorities, this stops them criticising local government failings and putting pressure on them to do better.
Scarcity Is Not Neutral
Scarcity is produced, enforced, and defended.
People are taught to manage shortages individually—to budget harder, queue quietly, compete for limited help. When resources are treated as private or conditional, people are pushed into isolation, even when they are living through the same problems.
But Scarcity Looks Different When Resources Are Shared
At Food & Solidarity, food, money, time, and labour circulate collectively. What comes in does not belong to an individual, a role, or a committee. It moves to where it is needed, and moves again when conditions change. This circulation makes inequality visible.
Differences Reflect Reality, Not Fairness Failures
Some needs are urgent, while others are ongoing. Some people draw more from the collective at one moment, then contribute more at another.
These differences are not a failure of fairness. They are the reality of unequal conditions of a system we mean to change.
Trying to equalise outcomes by rationing reproduces the very scarcity we are told to accept. Treating everyone the same when their circumstances are different only entrenches inequality.
Everything for everyone does not mean everything, all the time, for every person. It means refusing to hoard resources while others go without. It means understanding abundance as something created through cooperation, not generosity, within the group... and importantly conflict between the group and those that hoard.
Collective Judgement, Not Top-Down Control
Contradictions emerge when resources are limited. There are moments when not every need can be met fully. Those tensions are real, and they demand collective judgement rather than top-down control.
Decisions are made in common, based on what people are actually experiencing. We act, see what holds and what breaks, and adjust. Resources shift as conditions shift.
This is collective discipline rooted in reality.
Solidarity Becomes Material
When resources are shared, solidarity stops being symbolic—a word people say—and it becomes material.
People are no longer forced to choose between survival and participation, between receiving support and belonging.
Everything for everyone is not an ideal future. It is an internal practice in the present. It is how people survive together under conditions designed to keep them apart, as they organize to force changes.
Share Resources Collectively
Become a member where resources circulate collectively, solidarity is material, and everyone has an equal vote—regardless of what they pay into the pot.
Become a Member TodayFrequently Asked Questions
What does "everything for everyone" mean?
Everything for everyone means refusing to hoard resources while others go without. It means understanding abundance as something created through cooperation. Resources circulate collectively—what comes in moves to where it's needed, and moves again when conditions change.
How does Food & Solidarity operate differently from charities?
Food & Solidarity is a member-led, mutually-trading company limited by guarantee, distinct from charities. All members pay membership fees and have an equal vote regardless of what they pay. There's no means-testing, no 'poverty porn' for funders, and no intrusion to prove impact. The organization is free to target powerful people when necessary.
How are resources shared at Food & Solidarity?
Food, money, time, and labour circulate collectively. What comes in doesn't belong to an individual, role, or committee. It moves to where it's needed, and moves again when conditions change. Some people draw more at one moment, then contribute more at another—these differences reflect unequal conditions, not fairness failures.
Is scarcity natural or produced?
Scarcity is not neutral. It is produced, enforced, and defended. People are taught to manage shortages individually, to budget harder and compete for limited help. But scarcity looks different when resources are shared collectively.