Lidl Heacham

We are an established service operating in the coastal areas of North and West Norfolk, as well as some of the more isolated inland towns and villages, to help tackle food poverty. We operate as a pop-up community supermarket, with weekly locations in Walsingham, Wicken Green, alongside static shops in both Holt and Wells Next the Sea. Our key aims are to: - Provide free or heavily discounted food and household products for members (members must be local residents and will be asked to provide proof of address. Details of the numbers living in the household will be recorded to ensure fair shopping and measure the impact of the project. There will be a small one-off fee to join.) - Reduce expenditure for local residents struggling with the cost of living. - Provide a safe space for people to seek help or just see a friendly face. We will partner with wrap around services to help improve our members health and wellbeing. - Provide a place of social interaction for people struggling with isolation or loneliness. A one-off joining fee of £3.50 is charged per household. Products are not labelled with a price but by a system of dots. For example a product marked with one dot will cost 10p, a product marked with 5 dots will cost 50p. We aim to price all items at a minimum 50% cheaper than retail prices. In addition we will offer a selection of items completely free of charge, with limits to how many items per shopper depending on stock levels and membership numbers. These items will be hygiene/sanitary products and surplus food donations. These items will be displayed on a separate table to stock which is for purchase and this table is where all produce sourced via neighbourly will be distributed from.

We are aiming to make sure that people can come in and eat at least two meals a day. We have an experienced cook who works with a team of volunteers to produce nutritious meals from food donations. We also run a project called Purfleet Pantry where people can join our membership club to be part of a scheme giving them access to cooking lessons, health and nutrition sessions and weekly grocery parcels. We are aiming to eradicate food poverty amongst our clients and the wider community and to provide coaching around nutrition, health and well-being.

The King’s Lynn Night Shelter is a partnership between churches, charities and agencies in King’s Lynn who are motivated by a common concern for the plight of the homeless in the borough. The project aims to provide a safe, warm place overnight for those who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets or in unsafe accommodation. We believe in providing a high quality and compassionate service to our guests, some of whom are likely to have a range of support needs, such as alcohol dependency and mental health issues. The shelter ran as a pilot project on Friday and Saturday nights in the winter of 2017-18 and following the success of this scheme expanded to a 7 nights a week, 5 month winter shelter for the winters of 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21. We are currently in our seventh season and are operating as a 24-hour shelter. all of our guests are accommodated in single rooms, which they can access throughout the day, and are offered 1-to-1 support work, tailored to their specific needs. We are dependent on the generosity of our benefactors, donors and volunteers and would love to hear from anyone who is able to support us or would like to be involved in this project.