M&S Green Park

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and brand new clothing to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://www.looprun-sciv.online/

Camden Centre for Learning (CCfL) is Camden’s educational provision for secondary aged students whose primary need is their social, emotional or mental health development. We cater for up to a 100 young people who require specialist SEMH provision, including students who are identified as requiring such provision through a Education Health Care Plan of SEN (SEMH), or who have been permanently excluded from mainstream school, or who are at significant risk of being permanently excluded. Students are assessed on entry to CCfL and placed in small teaching groups of up to 8 in a classroom (some classes are smaller, depending on the students needs) learning is highly differentiated to meet the individual needs of the students. As part of this we are moving towards a vocational curriculum for our more complex students to run alongside English, maths and science. This will give students the opportunities to experience the world of work, gain BTEC qualifications and prepare them for the transition to further education or apprenterships, as well as meeting their SEMH needs, such as working together, problem solving, taking turns and communicating with the wider community. The BTEC qualifications that we are starting to offer include, leisure and tourism, hospitality and land based studies. Students have the opportunity to find out what type of careers are in each sector, by classroom based learning, hands on experiences by completing work placements and visiting local amenities within Camden and further a field. We have already started to build close relationships with London Zoo and Kentish City Farm, where the students have been able to have 'hands on' experience with working with animals.

This project supports the fantastic work that Palmer House does for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. I have been collecting food for this purpose for some ten years! Based in Croydon, Palmer House supports 60 single people up to 65 years of age with complex needs including experience of homelessness or rough sleeping, substance misuse and mental ill health. Customers are referred to Palmer House by the London Borough of Croydon and stay up to two years. The charity empowers them to make decisions about their support, including choosing their Support Worker. This person centred approach enables customers to identify their existing strengths and skills so they can achieve their goals and aspirations. The team at Palmer House believes customers can move beyond their current support needs and achieve their full potential by developing new skills and accessing opportunities. Whilst at Palmer House, customers engage in developing life and independent living skills including developing routine and structure, fostering positive relationships, healthy eating and cooking.