Lidl East Ham

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/

The E6-Sisters Community Pantry, located in the London Borough of Newham, is committed to fostering sustainability and empowerment within our community. We provide residents with weekly access to a pantry where they can choose their preferred food items, rather than receiving predetermined offerings. This empowers households, especially during crises, helping them regain control over their lives. Our pantry serves as a sanctuary, fostering a sense of stability and community ownership. By addressing food insecurity, we believe we can accelerate recovery, enabling residents to explore new opportunities. Our ethos promotes the transition from receiving help to thriving, bridging the gap between taking what is given and selecting what is needed. This approach minimizes waste and encourages fair sharing, ensuring that everyone has access to what they truly need.

At the Renewal Programme we work to tackle the causes and consequences of poverty, isolation and disadvantage in the London Borough of Newham. Founded over 50 years ago, our work continues to be informed by our core values of dignity, inclusion, collaboration and empowerment. We provide holistic support to Newham residents facing a range of challenges, providing housing, food, advocacy, education, and immigration advice, with the aim to support service-users to thrive independently. Although our work is open to all local residents, our core emphasis is on those who fall through the gaps of statutory and societal support, particularly those facing severe or multiple disadvantages. In a typical week our foodbank serves 300–400 people and gives out up to 130 food parcels. Our adult education programme ran 49 courses and enrolled 364 unique learners over the last academic year with 90% achieving accredited qualifications. Our Refugee and Migrant Programme (RAMP) hosts around 6 immigration advice sessions and submits more than 2 home office applications/appeals per day. Our homeless hostels provide shelter for 42 residents and our digital inclusion project provides 1-2-1 IT support for up to 200 individuals. We also provide carer support and a range of positive activities for young people. In the wake of the pandemic, we adapted our approach to meet rapidly changing community needs. We modified our delivery to offer support both in-person and online and brokered new services including a free volunteer-led telephone helpline and emergency micro-grants for those in urgent need of financial support, including those with no recourse to public funds. We remain agile and aim to always work collaboratively with our clients, providing tailored support and drawing upon our significant local knowledge to positively transform lives.