ALDI STROOD

We are a charity that supplies food and essentials to homeless, vulnerable and those in need across medway and maidstone, kent. We do this by delivering street soup kitchens 5 times a week. The Soup Kitchens are in Chatham, Rochester and Maidstone. We currently have 22 active volunteers. Helping with cooking of all our meals, serving at our SK and fundraising. We also actively support young people who are completing Duke of Edinburgh within our local communities. We are looking into becoming a community hub for domestic abuse for men and women family's living with people with addiction a mental heath 24/7

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise called Glass Mill Social Enterprise C.I.C. This is more than food and is part of a platform called  RSBA1 (Response, Sustain, Build, Achieve). A free supportive services platform to help people get back on their feet. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the happy stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare.  Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and clothing to people facing a challenge.  Whatever you can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. As everything given and everybody counts.  No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun food donations can include fresh fruit, vegetables, bakery items and non perishables.  Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with your food donations. Therefore we need your help to ensure we can supply the demand in this crisis.  Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. We, therefore, are a platform for a voice to be heard in the community and share life changing stories. It would be great to have more partners become part of these stories in your local community.  Looprun has also expanded into providing toiletries and brand new items of clothing.  For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit:  Website: www.loopruninstore.org

The organisation believes that within each person lies a treasure and a solution needing discovery. Since its inception in 2013, BU-Mentoring has been a beacon of hope, transforming lives in our local community. Through our mentoring and training service for our community's youth, adults and vulnerable people, BU-Mentoring empowers the community to take active roles through full-time jobs, part-time engagement, and or setting up and running their businesses with up to 90% success. Your support is not just a contribution but a vital part of our success. We exist to enable young people to take an active role within their community through mentoring and self-employment, and we could not do it without you. BU-MENTORING flourishes because of the active participation of our community members. Your support is not just a contribution but a vital part of our success, and we could not have achieved it without you. Our various projects include the following: 1. Mentoring: support programme for the Youth (NEET), adults and the vulnerable. 2. Career advice: We provide professional CV preparation, support with job applications, and confidence and capacity building for adults on long-term unemployment. We also offer work experience in the community shop. 3. Community Hub: Provide free food parcels daily, coffee, a meeting place for the lonely in the community store, and social care, e.g., responding to personal hygiene, arranging transport, assisting with utility arrangements, online bill payments, and making phone calls. All our services are free without charge. What we need: 1. Food and Clothes supplies, New and used, in good condition 2. Equipment Donations, Computers and Peripherals, Laptops/Desktops, Monitors, Keyboards 3. Bigger premises: Room for the enablement of workshops, computer classroom.