Lidl West Ealing

We operate from the Hanwell SDA Church community ministries department. On Sundays we provide our homeless person and other vulnerable members of the community grab and go bags with food items. We are also on Ealing Councils "Where to eat" list. Our overarching aim is love for God and our fellow men and to give glory to him. Covid19 Update Unfortunately due to the pandemic we are not currently having any sit down meals. We still hand out grab and go bags to the vulnerable who are able to come but equally we are able to drop bags off. All our volunteers wear the appropriate PPE and we requests that our guests also wear masks.

The Store Cupboard is a not-for-profit affordable food project with a shop in Hanwell, where people are at the heart of what we do. We’re here to help vulnerable families access good-quality food. Working with agencies and charities across Ealing, we offer referred members a weekly shop for a small membership fee with real choice—fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, eggs, and store-cupboard staples in a welcoming retail environment. Volunteers are on hand to chat and listen. It is a place to connect and to feel part of a caring community. We aim to provide an effective way to help people’s food budgets go further when they find themselves in need, as cost should not be a barrier to nutritious healthy food. The format is very much a normal shopping experience, with an emphasis on fresh fruit & vegetables. Clients choose their own food and pay a membership fee each week of £3.50 for their food. People are referred to us by agencies and charities throughout the borough of Ealing that are working with vulnerable families who have found themselves in financial difficulties.

While thousands of Londoners go hungry each day, safe, healthy and usable food is being disposed of as waste. City Harvest collects this nutritious surplus food from all segments of the food industry including restaurants, grocers, manufacturers, wholesalers, hotels and caterers. WHO DO WE DELIVER TO? We help vulnerable people throughout London. City Harvest regularly delivers high quality, nourishing food to organisations that provide meals to vulnerable people including homeless shelters, soup kitchens, centres for veterans, and organisations that assist people with alcohol or drug addictions. WHAT IMPACT DO WE MAKE? We rescue almost two tons of food weekly. This food helps organisations serve thousands of healthy meals each week and reduce their annual grocer bills, freeing up funds that can be reinvested in other vital support services. Some of the food we rescue is diverted from going to landfill where it would release gases toxic to the environment. HOW DO FOOD DONORS BENEFIT? We rescue food in a safe, easy, reliable way. We make it simple for food donors to get their nutritious food to desperate people and reduce their waste collection costs. Customers prefer to patronise sustainable restaurants and employees experience a huge morale boost from giving to those in need. Food donors appear daily on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds. The Sustainable Restaurant Association encourages food donations to City Harvest. With one new van we'll be able to deliver 135 tons of food in one year. This translates to 270,000 meals to people in need.