Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS)

We are a homelessness charity providing food, pet food and toiletries to people in need. Any of these items would be gratefully received, especially fresh meats and produce. We are also able to freeze bulk or short dated items. If unsure please don't hesitate to contact us. Thank you for your support.

Kennedy Street Foundation CiO (known as Kennedy Street Recovery) was set up by myself, Clare Kennedy and my husband, Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts from Coronation St). We are both in long term addiction recovery and very active in the community. Our project has been running as a community interest company since 2014. Then re-registering as a charity foundation since 2020. With the support of many great volunteers, we launched our exciting Brighton based Recovery Hub in September 2022, which offers a safe, visible, alcohol and drug free space, where those seeking recovery including their families, can start their recovery journey. Our ultimate objective, is to inspire those choosing recovery, to become the very best they can become, to build dignity, self respect and to encourage those in recovery to become outstanding, inspirational, fulfilled members of our community. We have a volunteer training programme that offers those in abstinence based recovery a chance to learn new skills including peer mentoring and recovery coaching certifications. Our peer mentors also design and run morning workshops that are available for all our clients and members to attend and these can range from mindfulness, creativity, physical health and mental health and wellbeing. In the corporate setting we encourage the companies we work with to demonstrate forward thinking corporate responsibility by offering organisational support via staff involvement and sponsorship. We work in partnership with numerous Brighton and Hove services including; * Brighton & Hove City Council * Police crime commissioner * Probation * Sussex Pathways * CGL * St. Peters Church * Knight support * Rise * Sussex Beacon * St. Mungos * Oasis * Move on * BHT * First Base The surplus food that is donated is used to produce a daily meal that is free to all our volunteers, new clients and long-term members. A suggested donation is always welcome but not necessary. We also offer via our drop-in recovery cafe, which we open daily 2-5pm, a menu of freshly made food (from our end of day fresh produce) and drinks for clients who are still in active addiction but are interested in finding out more about recovery. Any produce which we have at the end of the day is available for our volunteers to take home. We currently work in partnership with Fareshare To Go, collecting end of the day fresh produce once a week, however we are open every week day and keen to provide fresh food throughout the week.

We are aiming to make sure that people can come in and eat at least two meals a day. We have an experienced cook who works with a team of volunteers to produce nutritious meals from food donations. We also run a project called Purfleet Pantry where people can join our membership club to be part of a scheme giving them access to cooking lessons, health and nutrition sessions and weekly grocery parcels. We are aiming to eradicate food poverty amongst our clients and the wider community and to provide coaching around nutrition, health and well-being.