Johnson Service Group

“We are fighting food waste and preventing residual food from going to landfill. The residual food is repurposed to ensure no one goes hungry”. We have a retail shop in the centre of High Wycombe. The shop is open 6 days a week. We have a warehouse on the first floor where we can sort and distribute food. This allows us to both run a shop feeding those in need and supply our partner organisations. We are collecting from leading major supermarkets within a 15-mile radius of High Wycombe. We also receive direct deliveries from manufacturers and warehouses. We are also a member of the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) which represents independent food banks and distributors across the UK. Our Food Hub model allows us to manage not only residual food but also ambient, chilled, and frozen food. The fact we have both a retail and wholesale distribution ability has been identified by Fare share as one of a few operations in SE England with this capability. Who do we supply? WFH supply products to people unable to access or buy food, those that cannot get Government aid or are unable to survive on the Government’s benefit payments, those who are now suffering from loss of jobs and the self-employed who cannot get benefits, those who cannot access the traditional referral foodbanks. The range of people coming to us for help is growing weekly. Considering what is happening nationally the need for our food and services will continue to grow. We have partnered with other charities and groups and we are supplying residual product to food distribution organisations across Bucks. We are also piloting supplying food to partner organisations who are using the ingredients in hot meals and school food packs. Current scale of operation We have volunteers out each day and evenings collecting residual food. We currently collect more than 250 crates a week from leading supermarkets, warehouses, and retail shops. Food that would otherwise go to landfill. We have a retail food hub open 6 days a week for 3 hours each day We are directly feeding Circa 500 people each week through our retail food hub and partners. In addition, we offer free food outside of the hub . Our wholesale operation is supplying both food parcels and crates of food to our partners. We are also now being asked to supply food to be used in the preparation of cooked meals. Our wholesale operation is growing each week as more organisations draw on our services Funding streams We receive no statutory finding from govt of Council. We rely on donations from public and by asking for a donation from users of our retail hub. We also supply food free to the charities and organisations who are taking food from us each week.

Incorporating Hereford Homeless Support & the Living Room. Things are a little different at Ethos we are different, we are grass roots organisation that has developed organically responding to the needs of the community. All of our work focuses on an asset based approach, we don’t see labels and problems we see people going through tough times who need to still feel human connection and that they have a place in the world with space to reconnect through human relationships not as a service user who needs to complete numerous personal information forms just to be seen. Helping people to navigate their way through disadvantage and hardship from whatever means by providing timely but brief additional support to help prevent issues such as homelessness, poverty related issues such as poor physical health, mental health, isolation and loneliness which all pose a huge strain on our society. We do this through a range of offers The Living Room inc - Community Larder and food parcels Community Space with training Community Café Hereford Homeless Support we support homeless people in our community, this is done through being part of the food providers network in Hereford as we provide a hot meal to homeless people, items like tents and sleeping bags, clothing a shower facility and washing facility for homeless people. we also help support access to grants to help people into housing. We also work with people at risk of homelessness or experiencing poverty and disadvantage by providing advice and guidance, access to debt advice and grant assistance along with food parcels and access to our community larder. Our community larder works on a donation basis that when people can afford to its suggested £5 donation, this helps with the our collection costs with fuel and volunteers and also our subscription to partner organisations buying in food weekly. Food donated through Neighbourly is never charged for, donations given go towards buying in food from Fareshare weekly.

- General charitable purposes - Amateur sport - Economic/community development - Children/young people - Provides human resources - Provides buildings/facilities/open space