B&Q Chippenham

We are a large volunteer based Charity operating across the Wiltshire area. Our volunteers use donated food to share with local families, individuals and organisations who are most in need. We are currently under pressure to meet the increasing need to help people who cannot afford food, whilst also experiencing a big decrease in the amount of food we receive due to less available food and many more people buying food from the reduced price sections. If you are a business with surplus food, would like to make a donation, volunteer or are in need of some food, please contact us.

We are a small animal sanctuary providing forever homes for a variety of animals, from Guinea Pigs to Goats and everything in between. The sanctuary is our home so we are able to care for the animals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our aim to is provide care to all animals by either offering a safe, permanent home or giving support where appropriate, the majority of animals we offer a home to stay here as residents. We receive no funding or financial support so all costs are met by ourselves, this can be a challenge and the support we get from our local Aldi store via Neighbourly is priceless. The surplus food scheme provides a varied diet for our animals, whilst any excess (normally cakes!) are donated to the Breakfast Club run by my employer to benefit others. We welcome contributions from our local B&Q via the Neighbourly scheme and update them regularly on our animals and how their contributions have been used. We do not charge for any of the services we provide, our motivation is the welfare of the animals concerned and giving those in need of dealing with an animal related situation a safe, trustworthy and caring option. To help reduce costs we are always in need of fruit and veg to feed the animals which keeps their diet varied. We are unable to have volunteers at our sanctuary or offer open days, however we do try to offer advice to anyone seeking guidance on keeping their own animals or looking to rehome. We support other sanctuaries both locally and nationally through fundraising and helping out whenever possible, these include; Coppershell Animal Rescue Goatacre Animal Sanctuary Wonky Pets Rescue Great Dane Care

We are a local group of friends from Corsham Baptist Church. We began a soup Kitchen style service to our local community back in January 2020 encouraging isolated and lonely people to come in for a bowl of hot soup and a chat. When the Lockdown happened we had to close the church to our friends .We decided to continue to help our community by collecting food from local supermarkets by way of their food share programme.Using volunteers we currently distribute approximately 35-40 food parcel boxes each week to households that have asked for help. Not only are we able to provide help with their weekly food requirements, but our volunteers are able to build relationships and offer help where its needed or we can refer them onto professional bodies better equipped to help. The people we are helping is slowly growing and we are looking for more outlets to help us with support by providing any spare provisions they may be getting rid of. We have fridge and freezer space and so are able to take foodstuffs that will last a bit longer .