Lidl Merthyr Tydfil

Who we are, where we work from and who we help: We bring together our neighbours at the Ty Gwaunfarren older people’s social housing scheme, Merthyr Tydfil, through our Pantry and by cooking healthy meals in our communal kitchen and eating them together in our communal lounge. We collect surplus food from M&S and Lidl, which we share out amongst our neighbours. We also cook meals most days, including Christmas Day. Most of the residents here live alone so the meals bring us together to eat healthy food together as a community and it helps reduce loneliness and isolation.

We are a community foodshare that also offers store cupboard essentials at discounted prices Based in a ground floor shop in Tredegar town.FREE bakery/fruit and vegetables etc kindly donated from shops/stores. Brick a brac clothes/toys/household items etc are for sale for a nominal fee which is then spent paying rent/electric/ topping up our food supplies

The healthy eating project will cover a number of different aspects of our work as a school. We will be establishing a healthy breakfast club in the secondary phase. With pupils taking part in making their own healthy breakfast. We will also be providing afterschool clubs where pupils can attend with their parents healthy cooking classes. In addition we will be providing afterschool meals to those pupils in need. We will also be working with a number of other community based organisations to ensure that pupils have access to meals during the school holidays. This project forms part of a larger Family and Community Engagement Strategy that we have developed as a school. Intergenerational work will also be fully embedded across all aspects of this work.