Lidl Glasgow Victoria Rd

EWfC's vision is to see Scotland as an inclusive and equal place where all women are cherished, empowered and are credited as active citizens. In realising the support gaps and unique needs of diverse women and their families, EWfC provides opportunities for essentials to support BME families, education, awareness creation of rights and skills development.

Shine your light community rebuild lives, by promoting the wellbeing of single parents and their children, to assist them with various issues that prevent and eradicate poverty. Food is presenting a big challenge to our members as they are mostly refugees and asylum seeking single parent who are deprived and can only survive from our support of additional food provision. The cost of living has further worsened their situation as their household income is too little to but them good food. Shine your light community requires food surplus donations for our members who are refugees and asylum-seeking single parents. When food surplus donation is granted to our organisation, our volunteers would pack, arrange and distribute to our disadvantaged members around Glasgow. We hope to receive food supply from M&S, Aldi, Lidl and Sainsbury around us. We redistribute surplus from 620 Hillpark drive and we deliver to our other members at their doorstep since they are disadvantaged to afford transport cost for collection. Our members are now over 50 single parents and they have told us during group meetings how they are deprived of quality food due to the high cost of living and their low income. We recently supported our members with food vouchers on the 11th of February. We regularly hold mental health (MH) and wellbeing workshops to discuss MH coping strategies and awareness on the symptoms of MH and how to access professional support when required. We do not charge any amount for our services. Our members receive our support freely. We were collecting food items from Lidl at Giffnock in Glasgow but we were recently stopped as they have told us to go through neighbourly to continue to receive food surplus from them. Aldi has also told us to go through neighbourly. Our members do not presently have any food support from us this year and we hope we would be supported to provide additionally food for those deprived and living in poverty in Pollokshaws are of Glasgow. The local press has not showcased our work but our distribution and photos can be found below and on our social media links (Facebook) @ https://www.facebook.com/shineyourlightcommunity/ Yes we have partnered with some local organizations like Scottish Refugee Council, African Future, Pollokshaws community hub and others.

We run a soup kitchen on the pavement of Glasgow City Centre. We've been involved in this project for 5 years and run every Thursday and 2 of 6 Sundays. We collect surplus food from M&S Bothwell St at the close of business. Using this food, we help around 40 - 70 people of an evening. All food donated is distributed to our homeless client group alongside our own flasks of soup, tea and coffee and sandwiches, fruit, crisps and biscuits. Anything left over when we are packing up is taken to a homeless hostel. We have started a new venture on a Wednesday night when as a group of 9 (varying volunteers each week) we send three teams of 3 round different routes in the city centre & west end. We find/locate those people spending the evening or night on the pavement and provide them with some sustenance, some personal assistance and some support.