B&Q Derby

As a not-for-profit social enterprise with purely charitable aims, we provide support and help to disadvantaged groups in the Derby area including refugees, the unemployed and homeless living in hardship and facing destitution. We, therefore, provide regular daily food bank services as part of our overall Food-Share project. We currently support over 930 people in hardship and the numbers increasing every week due to energy and living costs and other social and economic issues within the UK society. The current users of our services include: => 226 Asylum Seekers from different backgrounds, => 188 Refugees from Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and Kurdish backgrounds, => 194 Refugees from Ukraine, => 266 Unemployed or on Universal Credits program from different backgrounds, => 34 Homeless from all different backgrounds, => 28 Other Meanwhile, people who access our Food-Share services can also benefit from the following charitable services and community activities: Clothing bank services, Capacity-building services including English classes and IT digital workshops, Sewing and Patch-working classes, Healthy cooking workshops, Community Cohesion events, outreaching, befriending and socializing opportunities, Employment support including training, job search and admin support for the unemployed, Capacity-building support including Maths/ English/ESOL courses, and volunteering opportunities for people from all backgrounds.

We are an independent Christian Ministries in Derby, running for more than 20 years. We are in need of surplus food and we are in desperate need of any food available in our local Derby area, from shops, businesses, local donators, etc...for the many, many people that are dependent upon us. Also, Any donations of soaps, toiletries, cosmetics, creams, gift items, gloves, hats, confectionery, chocolates, etc...will be greatly appreciated and will help many people, in many of the places we visit...Candles and hot water bottles needed also. We are an independent Christian Ministry, in Derby UK. We make 'Hope soaps' and other natural products to give out to people in need. ​ We minister in our home town and surrounding areas, as well as traveling (When we are able) to other towns in the UK. Eventually we will be expanding our ministry over seas...God willing. ​ We visit: Hospitals, homes for the elderly, courts, prisons, Prison families, nursery schools, needy families, hostels, widows, orphans, bereaved, street handouts and more...where ever the LORD directs us. ​ Our aim is to "Give hope with our soap" by freely giving out random acts of kindness to thousands of people and administering to them the gospel of hope and salvation. ​ Our beautiful soaps wash and cleanse the body, but only the saving blood of Christ can wash and cleanse the soul. ​ We pray that each person that visits our page will find peace and everlasting life with God the creator. "Any donations of soaps, toiletries, cosmetics, creams, gift items, gloves, hats, confectionery, chocolates, etc...will be greatly appreciated and will help many people, in many of the places we visit". We do not charge for any of our handouts to people and never have. Everything we give to people is totally free to them. ​ AMELIA AND MARIA. (Founders and hope soap missionaries). Our little ministry remains the same as always and we have been with Lidl Normanton for more than two years now and remain faithful to them. They remain our only store and we do not receive a lot and often struggle for food to give out. Answers: *We work from the same private address as always. *We continue to serve the same clubs and locals in our community as we always have. *Food is distributed out by ourselves and volunteers straight away and a club collects also straight from us each week. *We do not charge or accept donations. *Lidl Normanton only shop we collect from, no other shops. *We do not contact press...people do not like the attention.* *We do not take photos of people. *We have no partnerships, although we have helped in the past different local organisations and we know many of them personally. *We haven't any up to date media. We are not loud or flashy as far as media and photos, etc, but we are loyal and people depend on us weekly and have done for many years and we work hard, for free, to look after the people we care for, We have a couple, called Jim and Jill, who belong to the local eld

We are a pop up street kitchen who go Out into derby city centre 3 nights a week to help and support vulnerable And homeless people with hot meals packed lunches and essential items such as clothes, toiletries sleeping bags and tents. At present we are assisting both our visitors and other vulnerable families with food parcels. We deliver up to 100 parcels a week at present. Along with a community produce table that is set up for families to come and take items that they are in need of.