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The Food Centre is a church led, community focused project that enables individuals and families to be supported during financial crisis. We provide dried, tinned and, when available, fresh food which is donated by individuals, schools, churches and local businesses. Our passion is to provide food with love and encouragement to those struggling within our communities. OPENING HOURS It is open every Monday (except Bank Holidays) at King’s Community Church (KCC) from 10am to 1pm. It also opens a Food Pantry every Thursday at KCC from 10am to 12.30pm. The Food Centre is supported by “Churches Together ” in the Southern Parishes area and has various food collection points which are based at KCC, Aldi, Lidl, M &S and the Co Op in Hedge End and has collection points in a number of different churches. REFERRAL We have about 60 different referral agencies that include local church leaders, Doctors/GPs, children services, vulnerable adult services, CAB at Hedge End or Eastleigh offices and primarily Eastleigh B/C who are in contact with the local community. Their role is to contact the food centre to inform us of personal details and needs. This is done by electronic referrals or by phone to the designated mobile number. FOOD DONATIONS The food centre requires regular food donations and these can be brought to KCC from Monday to Friday 09.00-16.30 or on a Sunday morning from 09.30-12.00. Please put the food on the shelving at our donation point near the main entrance. For a list of all food types required, please click here but please remember that it must be non-perishables and in date.

RCCG Place Of Grace in the course of advancing the propagation of the gospel and reducing poverty, make food, clothing and other daily essentials available to the homeless, orphans, widow, widowers, fatherless, motherless and the destitute in Eastleigh and her environs. Although, we are in Eastleigh, Hampshire, we cover areas such as Southampton, Botley, and Hedge-End etc. Our food bank & clothing project has tremendously assisted us to bring people together in a conducive atmosphere and provide food that can be eaten or taken away for those in question and their families. In addition, the essence of our project our is to provide the needed support and counselling by experienced caregivers who can signpost the homeless and destitute in our area to ensure they have roof over their heads. This will enable more people to benefit from the service and support families who are on tight budgets and are keen to provide healthy food options for their children.

Plus You Limited is a charitable company working for the people of Thornhill. Our primary aim is to continue local regeneration by helping people to help themselves. To achieve this, we will value and listen to our residents and build successful relationships with partner organisations, we will deliver projects that benefit Thornhill residents. The Highpoint Food Pantry is volunteer lead project that distributes food directly to individuals and families facing hunger or financial hardship. Functioning like a shop, they provide shelf-stable goods, fresh produce, and dairy to help people meet their nutritional needs, a small weekly will be charged to individual customers, the fee will be used to purchase food each week to distribute the following week. Highpoint food Pantry are passionate about helping our community in these very trying times. Every individual we meet is very concerned on the escalating cost of food . With the help of our food pantry it will enable families to have that little extra each week to keep their families fed .This is not a life luxury but a vital part of keeping ourselves alive and healthy. We try our best to have a varied amount of food to suit all tastes . We are very passionate about helping our customers cook healthy and nutritious food. We offer advice on recipes and how to cook. With the help of Neighbourly we will be able to achieve this . Highpoint Pantry also have an amazing group of volunteers that are very passionate in their role .We will always make sure we have people to collect any donations on a daily basis . Highpoint Pantry is not just a place to collect food , it is somewhere our community can feel safe and come in for advice or just a little chat when they are feeling lonely or overwhelmed. People have been amazingly kind with donations but to sustain this level we are really reliant on Supermarket donations to continue this level of help to our customers. The volunteers will collect food and financial donations that will be used in the food pantry.