Lidl Durham Langley Moor

The project provides help and guidance, activities, social outings, in a safe environment for young people aged 8 + and the elderly 50+. We provide opportunities to gain support and explore choices, enabling them to discuss issues relevant to them in a supported environment to guide them and help raise their self-esteem, confidence and belief in themselves, which is often at a low level. Our aim is to help ease the social isolation of the elderly in our community to combat this we strive to improve their social and emotional wellbeing, health and being safe. Our Youth Programme engages young people age 8 – 18yrs across Bearpark, Ushaw Moor, Esh Winning and New Brancepeth and provides them with a safe and enjoyable space where they can learn new skills and receive support from our staff team and peers which in turn helps them to make positive life decisions. Activities at the youth drop-in include Xbox, Wii, Playstation, Pool, Pizza nights, DVD nights, Game Nights, Keyfund and lots of friendly competitions, on top of these sessions we also offer young people free advice and guidance on many things from sexual health where we offer the C-Card scheme for all young people 13 and over, relationships advice, homework clubs, Volunteering opportunities as-well offer specific sessions on safe and healthy living and employment.

Based in Houghton le springs, we are temporarily working ftom 15 St Michaels We are a community based organisation dedicated to helping vulnerable persons in the community such as asylum seekers, residents of the YMCA and working with the YMCA by collecting surplus and food donations from location shops such as Lidl and others. We d nit charge anyone for our services as all our funding and expenses comes ftom pocket. We organise fun days and team bonding and building activities too. Being aware of the challenges of societal lives, we hope to bring a little relief and succour to our community. We have gotten any press coverages just yet. As we are growing our brand and services hence we require an operational vehicle and office space to operate from. We are building some synergy and working relationships with other local groups but that is at the teething phase.

We are a group of friendly volunteers in Great Lumley that provide food hampers to local residents to get them through a few days if they are struggling to make ends meet, isolating or in need of help. We also have a Community Table and Community Fridge where local people can pop in and take donations from local shops and businesses that would otherwise go to landfill. Everything we do is free of charge or on a pay-as-you-feel basis. Any donations we do receive are used to buy stock items for our hampers. We run out of Great Lumley Methodist Church alongside Heaven's Kitchen which provides a lunch project where we provide home-cooked, three course lunches each Tuesday - also on a pay-as-you-feel basis. During the recent lockdown we provided over 9000 meals to the elderly and vulnerable in the community. We are always happy to receive donations of any kind and will ensure that it is distributed to help our community.