The Sheffield S6 Foodbank feeds 1,200 people, including 400 children, each week.
The crates they send out typically contain 30 items including toiletries and loo roll, alongside tinned tuna, tomatoes, chilli and various vegetables.
“One of our biggest imports is tomatoes,” Mr Hardy explains.
“We buy around seven containers of tomatoes every year which is 350,000-400,000 tins of tomatoes.
“Those tins in a supermarket are about 43p and we’re paying about 33p for them, so we’re saving about 10p per tin.
“Over the 300,000 tins, it’s a good chunk of saving.”
That saving is now passed on to other food banks in the UK.
“When we worked out we were saving money for ourselves, it just made sense that we helped our other food banks in our area and nationally,” he says.
“We’re all trying to make sure we’re there for every person in our community – and we do that by saving money together.”