Lidl Uttoxeter - Brookside Rd

We were established in 2020 as recycling group to help with landfill waste, and it grew from there. We help families in the surrounding area with food parcels and other items if needed. We rent a room in uttoxeter town centre to store the food bank items, at the Globe Eco foundation centre. We identify who can use us by them simply asking us for help or if someone asks on their behalf. We do not charge any fees for our service. We have been known to reach out to Uttoxeter Lions if we need any help sourcing some items for people and vise versa. We do a fundraising event twice a year at the Uttoxeter lions events - Lark in the Park and Christmas Cracker, plus other smaller ones through out the year. The large ones we contact local businesses for donations towards a huge raffle, which is always a massive success and really helpful. At Christmas and Easter we do appeals, where we get nominations from people who feel they know someone who deserves something extra or maybe they are going to have nothing at all to open on these holidays. We make all of these hampers. At Christmas they will include various items like toys, clothes, beauty products, chocolates, sweets and loads more. Then Easter eggs for all the nominated children. We also do eat well in summer, where we fundraise and the food parcels are to include fresh produce, we have postponed this for this year until Autumn/Winter. Neighbourly is the only place where we would collect any food surplus from retailers. We don't do just food parcels, people can come to us to ask for help with anything, we have helped with people fleeing due to DV or helping people who are moving home with nothing. In the summer 2025 we also ran an eat well campaign. This meant that 23 families had fresh food for up to 3 weeks, a long with activity packs for the children.

Hearts and Hands Stafford is a community led non profit organisation; working in the community in Stafford and the surrounding area Helping primarily those affected by hours/reduced income, self employed, part time workers and those who have slipped through the net and need a bit of help. Assisted by local supermarkets supplying surplus food that would normally go to waste and distributing free of charge to the community. We collect and distribute food parcels at no charge to those who are in need. Any donations that come to us will never be sold on for any profits. Hearts and Hands collection points are scattered throughout the area, outside the homes of community minded people who collect dry food and tinned food goods to add to the stock at Hearts and Hands to be given freely. Non food donations, household items and clothing are also collected and given back out into the community or to other charities. We have had many success stories in helping people with their homes who are most vulnerable, we have helped to clear, clean, decorate, refurnish and carpet homes. We do this with the help from the local communities. Working with the blessing of several Stafford Borough Councillors and registered with Support Staffordshire and SCVYS Hearts and Hands Stafford is going from strength to strength with strong committee and great team of key volunteers. Our motto; never look down on someone unless you are helping them up!

Upper Moreton Rural Activities CIC provides a range of rural based courses and activities to promote learning and wellbeing. We support vulnerable adults recovering from mental ill health, young people and children with learning difficulties and disabilities, schools, colleges and community groups. Our rural day opportunities offer a wide range of activities, from working with farm animals and pets, gardening, handicrafts, woodwork and importantly individual health and wellbeing with healthy eating and cooking. Participants come from a wide range of circumstances, including individuals who have poor mental health, low self-esteem, individuals who have learning disabilities and/or learning difficulties. We provide support for individuals by introducing new skills, and experiences, promoting self-confidence and personal development. Courses and activities consist of many meaningful activities on the farm, with some being part of the normal ‘working’ routine and where possible we offer volunteering placements and work experience and advice with next steps. We strongly believe that good health comes from good nutrition therefore as part of a healthy lifestyle we encourage healthy eating and cooking / baking - inspiring all individuals to eat a wholesome meal – teaching all about good nutrition and how to cook on a minimum budget especially with the food crisis. Supporting individuals with all aspects of food preparation food safety, food hygiene and how to avoid food waste is most important, as many individuals have little knowledge in these subject areas. Upper Moreton’s staff are all fully trained in food safety, food preparation and all hold level II certificates in food safety in the workplace. One member of staff is a health professional who has specialist knowledge and experience in promoting health eating and healthy lifestyles. We teach individuals about food storage and what is meant by best before and sell by dates. We cook on a regular basis two / three days per week - because most of our people do not always have access to a regular healthy diet and must make economic choices between the types of food they eat and bills they need to pay. Most people do not know what a hot meal is or know how to cook one. Some lack motivation because especially if they live on their own - we therefore ensure that individuals do not go hungry and have provided some with food to take home. With the neighbourly food collection surplus we aim to use utilise all surplus food by incorporating these into our weekly cooking sessions and to give individuals who do not have enough to eat, regular intakes of food which will help to prevent lack of energy and poor nutrition associated conditions. We aim to give people food handouts if in need to take home. Some cooking activities will involve how to do batch cooking so no food is wasted and to be teach individuals to be more energy efficient.