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The Marylebone Project is a Registered Social Landlord set up through a partnership between Church Army and the Portman House Trust. We provide 112 long and short term beds to homeless women and offer essential facilities and support to women who visit our rough sleeper’s drop-in at the Marylebone Centre. The Marylebone Centre also delivers education, employment and training opportunities and meaningful activities in order to support service users into independent living. The Marylebone Project social enterprise, Made in Marylebone, provides a catering service (Munch in Marylebone) and Central London meeting venues (Space in Marylebone). Through doing this it offers training and work experience for service users whilst producing ongoing funding for the Marylebone Project. Those we support are often affected by substance misuse, unemployment, domestic violence and mental health issues. Whatever their story, we aim for the same ending; self-esteem, employment and independent living. We do this by providing shelter, emotional support, education opportunities, spiritual space, and events in a welcoming and secure environment. Our ethos is that each woman is a very special person and through the themes of: Spirituality - that God loves each person regardless Hospitality - that all are welcomed Empowerment - equipping women to make informed choices Resettlement – encouraging and supporting women towards independent living We believe that we are and will continue to make a lasting difference.

Millions of people in the UK struggle to feed themselves and are malnourished. This isn't a food shortage problem. There is enough food for everyone in our system - it just doesn't reach all the people who need it. The Felix Project provides the link between food suppliers with surplus food and charities feeding vulnerable people. What does The Felix Project do? 1.5 million adults and 400,000 children face hunger in London – almost 2 million people London may need as many as 127 million meals a year following COVID, to feed all those going hungry. Meanwhile, 10 million tonnes of edible food is wasted in the UK every year. There is enough food for everyone in our system - it just doesn't reach all the people who need it. Established in 2016 by Justin Byam Shaw, The Felix Project is London’s largest food redistribution charity. Our practical solution of alleviating food poverty by preventing food waste inspires donors, partners, suppliers and volunteers.   We rescue food that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste. This food is in-date, nutritious, and includes a high proportion of fresh fruit, vegetables, baked goods, salads, meat and fish. Food is donated by wholesalers, retailers, farms, restaurants and delivered to frontline charities, primary schools and holiday programmes, feeding London’s most disadvantaged people.   Your support ensures we can keep feeding vulnerable people throughout London – not just now but also to meet the longer-term socio-economic impact of this crisis on millions of people throughout our capital city. Our sole source of funding is from fundraising. Every £10 donated to The Felix Project delivers enough food for 61 meals. Every donation made is multiplied 10x in terms of the value of the food we distribute, which represents a remarkable impact. To quote one of our donors, The Felix Project gives ‘the biggest bang for the buck’ when he compares what we are able to do with our income to other charities he analyses. It sounds too good to be true, but it isn’t! We can achieve this because nearly all the food we redistribute is donated free of charge by the food industry - it is surplus and would otherwise probably go to waste – and because we have a volunteer workforce driving our vans and working shifts in our depots, also completely free of charge. We couldn't do this without the generous donations from our supporters. We are grateful to all who are a part of The Felix Family, helping us deliver more food to more good causes.

Despite treating 400 children last year, there were 233 young people that St. Mary's did not have bed space for within the paediatric intensive care unit appeal. With our bold and exciting £2 million expansion at St. Mary's hospital, we want to expand the number of beds in the unit from 8 to 15, create a new parent room, new isolation rooms, obtain £900,000 worth of state of the art equipment and much more.