M&S Hereford

Help for All Gwent is a local voluntary group that accepts donations from the local community and donate to people in need. This includes essential items such as food, clothing and household items. We work closely with a local charity that donates furniture to families in need and help people in crisis with sourcing clothes and furniture. Families can register with Help For All Gwent to receive weekly or biweekly food parcels. The group is run by volunteers who collect food from Sainsbury’s and Aldi. The food is then distributed to families who can either collect or have delivered to them if they have no means of transport. We work closely with other local charities and community groups and cover each other's food collections if needed. Volunteers have completed basic food safety training to enable them to.distribute all food collected and understand the importance of food safety.

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.

As part of our support for the community we serve we collect and share food with our community and provide a weekly hot meal