M&S St Helens Ravenhead

St Helen's Zero Waste Community is a part of Liverpool Zero Waste Community CIC based in St Helen's. We redistribute surplus food for free back into the community of St Helen's.

Chesnut Lodge School is a community special school in Widnes that caters for pupils with Complex Physical and Medical Difficulties as well as Cognition and Learning Difficulties. We cater for pupils from age 2-16 with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC plan) as well as taking Vulnerable 2's and nursery age pupils on mainstream places. Chesnut Lodge offers a full curriculum that is tailored to meet the needs of individual pupils, both academically and medically. We work closely with medical professionals providing a range of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and many more. Our experienced staff work closely with parents and carers and other professionals to ensure that each child receives the curriculum and care that they require. Our current cohort has 62% of pupils in receipt of Free School Meals. Pupils in receipt of FSM and/or Pupil premium (66% of pupils) are targeted for any additional support. Over the last few years Neighbourly has enabled us to collect from Marks and Spencer, Aldi and B and Q in our local area. The school uses their surplus donations to ensure that children have access to additional food and resources in school where needed. As a school for complex physical and medical needs our costs are significantly higher than most schools and these donation's have a huge impact in school.

We are survivor led support and advocacy for those affected by Domestic Abuse in the newton le willows area. Domestic Abuse WA12 established in 2021 . Having our own domestic abuse journeys we united to help tackle the gaps in services that we both fell through. Evolving along our way we now run support groups, well-being pathways of healing and recovery , training and development and have also added at the beginning of this year our greatly received surplus food share programme - this is a community project not just domestic abuse related where we collect surplus foods from local food venues and distribute into our local community of WA12 . We have no requirements for this food collection wise anyone can help save the foods from landfill but also this is a highly valued addition in our area for those that are also struggling with the current economic climate - which in turn can then feed into the domestic abuse arena . Additional projects also include clothes recycling and a community garden for partnership projects - healing and wellbeing . We distribute via our local church hall daily We are unfunded and volunteer led. We offer confidential support, including advocacy, survivor led empowerment, signposting, 2-1 support, weekly meetings with other survivors, risk management and crisis management, safety action plans, a safe space, clean laptops, and Internet access, and support into recovery pathways. We also offer learning workshops, education around domestic abuse, healthy relationships, positive mental health practices, and confidence and self esteem. Additionally we offer access to holistic therapies such as guided meditation, yoga, reiki and other healing therapies.