Lidl Bingley

- General charitable purposes - Education/training - The advancement of health or saving of lives - The prevention or relief of poverty - Overseas aid/famine relief - Religious activities - Economic/community development/employment - Human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - Other charities or voluntary bodies - The general public/mankind - Provides buildings/facilities/open space - Provides services - Provides advocacy/advice/information

As a charity we provide emotional and spiritual support, advice, resources and services to those affected by various social and economic circumstances. We do this in many ways through support groups, empowering conferences and seminars as well as social activities that benefit the community. We have several families and individuals whom we support with food parcels every week in the local community including those who attend our community centre support groups. In recent times due to the Pandemic, we have seen a great increase in demand for food parcels and we have been delivering these to the community when they cannot come to collect them from the building. We also offer a take away cooked lunch on a Sunday afternoon.

We provide a base for the community to meet and provide support and local resources. We deliver courses and activities that have been requested by the local users in conjunction with our many partnerships. Key services at the centre are our free Advice service and our Nursery which predominantly caters for children on 15 and 30 hours schemes. Activities running from the community centre at present range from yoga to read & write for beginners, kids clubs to teaching 55+ about tablets, smart phones and laptops. The community centre is also a link to affordable clothes, toys and food. This is offered through our seconds shack and our toy table, both always full of donations from people locally giving back. We accept food donations from Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Innchurches and Fairshare. These donations go towards preparing free food for our kids group, free food on Fridays scheme and any persons requiring a meal through the meal referred from Advice or our local Foodbank.