B&Q Chesterfield

We are a non-profit Community Investment Company based in Shirebrook, near Mansfield Nottinghamshire. The group is run by 3 directors and a group of local ambassadors. Our aim is to improve the local community and surrounding areas by creating the conditions that allow people to come together to help and support one another. We run a Community Fridge - which is open every week day in our community venue called The Hole in the Wall. We also run a variety of activities and events throughput the year. All profits are invested back into both pre-existing and new initiatives/events. We have further ambitions to deliver on wider, community-based initiatives, that are derived from extensive research and have been co-designed with the local community, service partners and local businesses alike. "Being Kind in Shirebrook" is our pledge that holds us all to account.

We are a membership only community project fighting food poverty in chesterfield. Before the lockdowns, we were a community café helping disadvantaged and vulnerable people get a warm, healthy meal. During the lockdown, we delivered in excess of 10,000 food parcels to frontline workers, vulnerable and shielding people and everybody else who needed our help.

We deliver food parcels to residents within 6 miles of the foodbank warehouse. We offer three meals per day for seven days. Clients are referred to the foodbank by frontline care professionals. When you are on a low income and have no financial safety net, a sudden crisis such as bereavement, ill health redundancy or marital break up, can leave you unable to feed yourself or your family. Such situations can then deteriorate in to something far worse. New Hope Food Bank works to help people who find themselves in these situations by directing them to relevant agencies. The immediate practical help we bring to the table gives the client and the referral agency breathing space to work together to resolve the underlying problems.