M&S Llanelli Parc Trostre

Llwynhendy Surplus Food Project is run by a local community group, The Llwynhendy and Pemberton Forum. We work with all members of our community from children through to the elderly. The Forum is run completely by volunteers from all walks of life, from disabled adults to local councillors. Llwynhendy is one of the most deprived areas of Wales and has over 600 social housing in the community. Many people rely on benefits and struggle to make ends meet. Often benefits get sanctioned and many families are left with no money to support or feed they're families. We work with the local police, local authority and family centre to help support the most vulnerable people in our community. We identify where the surplus food is needed in our community and distribute it accordingly. Aswell as distributing food to the needy we also run a free lunch club for children during the School Holidays. During term time a large number of children in our area receive free school meals. When the school holidays arrive the children do not have access to free school meals and the families benefits don't increase to help pay for the extra food. This proves a real problem for families and causes child food poverty. This is a real concern for our group and we do our utmost to provide nutritional meals and drinks during the holidays. Due to lack of funding we can only provide this service for 2 days a week during the holidays. With extra support and funding we hope to add extra days to our project. Our group also provides many volunteering opportunities and we often encourage the community to help out. We also arrange training by working with Communities First to deliver necessary training and skills. We have recently completed food hygiene, emergency food aid, defibrillator use, basic IT, Minibus course etc

Our food Bank and Food shares are strictly For Those In Need Only Based in Gorseinon, Swansea. We are fully Registered with Swansea Council Food Standards Agency as Foodbank / Hub. We conduct surplus food collections from major Stores 7 Days a week Our current out put of foods to our community is approx Equivelent to. 4,500 meals a week Food are distributed to several independent living OAP Complexes as Food Shares Approx 250 pensioners . Different days of the week There for helping stoping Land fill of perfectly good foods of all descriptions . . We also have our food Bank at our base Food bank supply’s the more essential products than food share to our community Food bank Baby bank Ladies products Large pet food bank And more What we do: 1. Food Bank 2. Surplus food shares to 6 venues through the week . 3. Large Pet food Bank 4.food bank section Ladies products Generally help to the disadvantaged ie, household items, food, clothes, if we have in stock. 5. FOOD BANK OPEN TUESDAYS & sundays AT HUB 1 TO 2.30 PM SOS Shelters Wales introducing founders David Tiley and Mike Tiley We have our very large yard and building at our disposal. We are based in Swansea and want to cover the whole of Swansea and beyond but it is one step at a time . We are also in contact with other fantastic groups where we can exchange ideas give each other advice and help each other where we can. We will be accepting donations for furniture and clothes, we will very much welcome fundraisers and We now have our CEO, Chairperson, Treasurer, officers all elected. We have our mandate in place. We have our policy and procedures in place. We have our registration with Swansea Council Food Standards Agency IN place. We have our Community Bank Account in place . Our email sosshelterwales@hotmail.com

Ensure the community has training opportunities Ensure that the community has volunteer opportunties Distributing surplus food to the community