M&S Mere Green

Our Church aims to be a God-centred oasis in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. We provide a range of Christian religious services and also use our premises for a variety of community-related activities. These include: - a community cafe - Cafe Oasis, operating 3 days each week -a food bank - Food4U - a parish nursing service - offering whole person advice and support - a parent and toddlers group - a full suite of age-related Scout and Guide groups for young people - a thriving university of the Third Age for older folk Our mission statement includes the phrase 'all are welcome'.

FoodCycle runs volunteer-powered community projects across the UK – all working to reduce food poverty and social isolation by serving tasty, nutritious meals to vulnerable people. Since we started cooking in May 2009, our incredible volunteers have served over 125,000 meals made using over 146,000kg of surplus food – the equivalent saving of 657,000kg CO2 emissions.

We are now feeding over 1000 people per month many struggling to buy food. This in turn stops many from shop lifting and helps those who desperately need help. We operate on a referral basis from various agencies including the Council, Police, Homestart, Housing Associations, Job Centre, local churches and local Community Groups. Our clients are usually homeless, jobless, elderly, infirm, low income workers and those in temporary financial difficulties. We supply our clients with a good variety of food which also includes frozen and fresh food. We have now moved to B6 7QA about 5 mins away. We were on GMTV plus central TV Gmtv have been to our foodbank twice and seen the work we are doing win helping to provide food parcels to those in need. We are also on facebook bethany community foodbank