M&S Cardinal Place Victoria

Who are we? Shop and Donate is a UK registered charity (No. 1195163) based in Westminster. It was founded in 2020 during lockdown to meet the needs of residents who were self isolating or struggling to access food. After the pandemic, Shop and Donate has continued its work supporting people affected by the cost of living crisis. Our strategic objectives are: ● Enable food security: by making food accessible to everyone in the local community regardless of their postcode, background or social status. ● Fight food poverty: by supporting the most vulnerable people in the local community as well as those people adversely affected by the cost of living crisis and inflation. ● Tackle food waste: by working with partners, by enabling the redistribution of safe and nutritious food to those who need it. Profits are reinvested back into the community to help local food banks low income families and homebound people How does it work? We are small, locally led and nimble on our feet. We don’t have expensive premises, big donors or consultants. Our volunteers help us every day to run our services. Every penny that we make, is reinvested in the charity or in the local community. We work directly with residents, partnering with other outreach charities that run local services, such as chess clubs, to prevent social isolation. The cost of living crisis has increased demand for our services. We would welcome your help and support by: ● Becoming a corporate partner. ● Selecting Shop & Donate as your charity of the year. ● Giving us a grant or a donation. ● Supporting us through payroll giving. ● Arranging a corporate volunteering day with us. The food donations that we collect are split between our Social Supermarket, our Food Pantry, and with other local charities. Our Food Pantry operates in Victoria, where we offer 10 items for £5.00. Funds from this are reinvested in the cooking classes that we offer and our running costs, and we also plan to garden calles as we are setting up our community garden.

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/

We are a crisis support service offering wrap-around services including debt advice, welfare benefit advice, housing and immigration support, business advice, holiday and after school provision, women's groups, a food bank and a social supermarket. We provide translation services to ensure our charity guests feel understood and supported.