B&Q East Kilbride

Betel is a safe and inspiring place where men and women can come free of charge and overcome drug and alcohol addiction. We're helping addicts in 24 countries and 100 cities. Here in the UK, we have around 280 men and women in our care and we've begun a welcoming new centre in Motherwell. Betel is a self funding, non profitable charity. We do not receive government funding - instead, we teach new skills such as gardening and tree surgery, upholstery, and furniture restoration. In turn, this generates an income and empowers our recovering addicts to pay for their own recovery. This strengthens their self-worth, confidence and restores a sense of hope for the future. I myself was an addict and alcoholic. I entered the doors of Betel in 2006, lost, frightened, underweight, and with no hope for the future. But the love of people and the generosity of others encouraged me that life could be better. Ten years down the line, I'm drug free and alcohol free. What's more, I'm now married and I'm continuing to live and work with those who are less fortunate. We're a large charity but very small in comparison to the need there is out there within our country. We have and will continue to see men and women break free from addiction. To achieve this, we need your help! We hope to accommodate 20 to 25 adults here in Motherwell centre and will hopefully open another where there's great need. Eventually, our vision is to have a centre in every city so we can empower more people to overcome their addictions. All our residents are peer led by volunteers like myself that have gone through and overcome addiction. They know they aren't alone and can achieve what they set their hearts and minds on, as we have.

We are a council run nursery within an area of increasing deprivation. We would appreciate any donations of food, flowers, candles or any other items which we could distribute to our families. We currently have 145 children on our roll and with this comes 145 families. Our families find it difficult under normal circumstances but COVID-19 has presented a lot of other issues to our families. Families that have lost their jobs, families that have lost loved ones and families that are living in fear of this awful pandemic therefore highlighting mental health issues which affects the wellbeing of our families. Again thank you so much for this wonderful resource and we can't thank you enough for this.

The Developing the Young Workforce Team within Cathkin High School would like to create small shop within our school run by our pupils and we would like surplus food and product donations for this. The School shop is an opportunity for ASN learners who may struggle to engage in external work experience placements and build meta skills, practical skills, confidence to support their journey to attaining a positive destination post school. We also want to build links with our parents and wider community. We would also make sure if any families in our school community was in need of any food donations, they would be our priority. While we would not charge for the items kindly donated to us, we would support the local food bank with a financial donation from any monies raised through pupils, staff and parents making donations of cash when they collect the donated food / items. The local food bank support a number of our families so this is a way for our school community to ’chuck it in a bucket’ financial food bank donation - give something back. This will also support the school’s equity agenda and provide opportunities for all learners to build skills for learning, life and work. This will also supports pupil voice – pupils would make the decisions about how food is displayed, shop is marketed, donations counted etc. As a school we also want to reduce the amount of food ending up in landfill, and help reduce the carbon footprint caused by all of this waste.