B&Q Wrexham

Hightown Community Resource Centre provides and promotes a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable community facility that serves the needs of the community. We aim to engage with local residents, families and the wider community in Hightown Wrexham to encourage and promote health, welfare and well-being. We strive to offer the local community facilities and services that it needs and finds beneficial. To help combat holiday hunger we offer a FREE breakfast club (Holiday Food & Fun) during certain school holidays 9.30 til 11am. Children (who must be accompanied by a parent / carer) and their parent are invited to join us for breakfast and games (Food & Fun). Also our local community greatly value any surplus food donations that we receive.

Denise’s Army is based in the Heol Kenyon area of Johnstown, with its primary base at Johnstown Community Centre, which holds a 5-star hygiene rating. This facility is used, at times, to support foodshare opportunities for the local community. The foodshare initiative, launched in 2026, aims to provide fresh food parcels using edible surplus food donated by supermarkets and food establishments. The service is available free to individuals in the area experiencing food insecurity, enabling access to nutritious food while reducing unnecessary food waste sent to landfill. Denise’s Army foodshare operates an inclusive model. Referrals are currently received via local police officers, PCSOs, community agents, council representatives, and word of mouth. Self-referrals are also accepted. Neighbourly is a platform to hopefully develop this and provide vital links to food surplus, volunteering and grants. At present, donations are supplied by Co-operative Food store in Rhosllanerchrugog. Food is collected by volunteers and delivered directly to individuals’ addresses. Any surplus food nearing its best-before date is retained until the following day, when it is made available for collection at the community centre. Respecting individual privacy is a key priority, and as such, there is currently limited emphasis on media promotion. However, plans are in place to develop a website, and one of this year’s objectives is to increase local awareness of the foodshare project using anonymised data, clear communication, and secure, layered messaging. There are currently volunteering opportunities available, particularly to support behind the scenes with website development and ongoing monitoring of demand and uptake as the foodshare initiative expands. Johnstown is a village in Wrexham, Wales, and forms part of the historic coal mining community of Rhosllannerchrugog. Wrexham has a high percentage of lone-parent households, ranking seventh highest in Wales. Over 50% of Lower Layer Super Output Areas in Wrexham are within the top 20% most deprived in Wales in terms of community safety. As of 2022–23, 23.7% of children under 16 in the Wrexham area were living in low-income families. Subject to funding, the foodshare aims to expand to include the bulk purchase of household products, which could be offered at low cost to provide greater choice in an area with significant levels of deprivation. This initiative has already proved invaluable to residents affected by disability, age, family circumstances or factors beyond their control.

We have two main priorities, waste reduction and anti poverty so we tackle poverty sustainably, reducing single use waste and preventing unnecessary items from entering landfill. We are passionate about our environment and we are passionate about people. We provide reusable sanitary products to eliminate period poverty for the recipients, with products lasting for upwards of a decade. We currently cover Flintshire & Wrexham. We collect and deliver fresh, nutritious food from store to door, 7 days a week; tackling in work poverty, hunger, food waste and malnutrition. Christmas Eve 2023 saw us provide food to over 26,000 people; using surplus food that would have perished in warehouses during the holiday store closures. Between 24-31st December 2023, we redistributed over 110 tonnes of surplus food! We collect, restore and redistribute baby essentials to those unable to afford them. We support and enable the use of reusable nappies for all, providing them for free for those in need, for as long as required. We currently actively cover Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham but support can be accessed from residents of bordering counties. We impose no criteria as we believe it takes a significant amount of pride swallowing to ask for help. We enable beneficiaries to retain their dignity by providing whichever service is required anonymously. We’re not too sure if we’re innovators or a bit bonkers but it works! History: Wrexham Nappy Library was born in November 2015 to aid and enable the use of real nappies for people in need in the Wrexham County. This began with free trials of a variety of types of nappy with full support and guidance. Within a short period of time, newer versions of brands were released. Now, it is essential to keep trial kits up to date. As a result, we were left with a huge surplus of obsolete but perfectly functional nappies which we decided to offer to struggling families for as long as they needed, free of charge, with the simple request that upon cessation of use, they're returned to benefit another family. We began tackling period poverty in 2016, initially by adding menstrual cups to long term loan kits but quickly revised our methods and make them available to all. We commenced food deliveries in 2017 to tackle hunger discreetly, and to divert food waste from landfill. We also get infrequent donations of baby clothes and goods which are passed on for free to families who need them - returns of these items are not requested, instead we politely ask the families to pay them forward.