Lidl Northampton Towcester Rd

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise called Glass Mill Social Enterprise C.I.C. This is more than food and is part of a platform called RSBA1 (Response, Sustain, Build, Achieve). A free supportive services platform to help people get back on their feet. 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 happy 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 clothing to people facing a challenge. Whatever you can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. As everything given and everybody counts. 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 food donations can include fresh fruit, vegetables, bakery items and non perishables. 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 and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with your food donations. Therefore we need your help to ensure we can supply the demand in this crisis. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. We, therefore, are a platform for a voice to be heard in the community and share life changing stories. It would be great to have more partners become part of these stories in your local community. Looprun has also expanded into providing toiletries and brand new items of clothing. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: www.loopruninstore.org

Helping Our Community Thrive and Grow! Our team at The Spring Charity offer community services for local families to gain opportunities to improve their well-being and outcomes in life. We work to benefit vulnerable families with children aged 0-5 years in the local community and wider Northampton town area. Our charity is based in Castle Ward, which is in the heart of Northampton (Spring Boroughs, Semilong, St James, The Mounts). Some of our families experience financial hardship, and social, health or economic issues. Parents can self-refer, or be signposted by health services, other professionals, schools, or charities in the area. We hold bi-weekly Stay and Play parent and child drop-in sessions which are open to all families with preschool-aged children. These sessions help us to make contact and build relationships, so we can best meet our family’s needs. We are currently working on setting up a number of projects focussing on well-being and healthy living, such as cookery groups for families and offering a warm space for local residents. As you can imagine our provision and the services we offer to our community are solely funded by charitable donations and project-specific funding which we have placed a bid for. We would be grateful for financial support from local residents and businesses and we are always keen to accept donations of good quality children's clothing and equipment e.g. car seats, buggies etc, maternity clothing and toys. We can also consider offering, subject to the appropriate safeguarding checks, opportunities for volunteers to gain some experience prior to moving into paid employment

Foodkind began as Revolution Zero in Northamptonshire, with an environmental mission to stop good food going to waste – and to campaign about the over-supply in our wider food system. We collect surplus food from supermarkets and share it with the community. As our network of Shop Zero and Cafe Zero projects is closed during Covid-19, we are focused on food aid. From the start of lock down, our ‘Bags of Good’ team has delivered thousands of food parcels and taken fresh produce out to charities and food banks for their work to support vulnerable and isolated people, promoting #zero hunger #zero waste. Supermarkets are often left with unsold, but perfectly edible, food. Thanks to an unmatched team of collectors, we pick up from a wide variety of stores and bring produce to our hubs to be stored in our goods area; or frozen or chilled. Other volunteers work in our network of shops (pop-up and bricks and mortar), event stalls and cafes. The chefs and waiting staff create delicious meals, tailoring menus to match our stock. We offer training and are committed to making sure volunteering adds value for our colleagues. Schools, charities and other charities also share our produce and we support new projects to get going. As a Community Interest Company we invest any profits into developing the enterprise.