M&S Chancery Lane

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/

A warm space where people come and enjoy tea/coffee and cake, activities, including seated exercises, and a delicious lunch made from surplus food.

We are a group of dedicated volunteers who help out at a weekly soup kitchen in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, London, every Sunday at 6.15-8pm where we distribute food to 100-110 of the most vulnerable members of society. The soup kitchen is held within two minutes walk of Holborn station. We provide our guests with a hot meal (meatballs and rice/vegan lentils and rice), a sandwich (usually a selection of meat/fish/vegetarian/vegan is on offer), a piece of fruit, dessert, water, tea/coffee and any other items which volunteers personally fundraise for and bring including toiletries, clothes, tinned food etc. We also provide for individual needs, where possible, including sleeping bags, footwear etc to help guests through difficult times. It has been through our volunteers' dedication and commitment that we have expanded and found donation streams to ensure our continued success. What started off as a distribution where homemade sandwiches were distributed has grown to allow guests to leave with 2-3 days worth of food. We are the only soup kitchen which attends the site every Sunday, 52 weeks a year, this includes Christmas Day and New Year's Day. And we are one of very few that offer meat to our guests, our guests also have an option of halal food every week.