ALDI BEXHILL ON SEA

Our mission is the relief of poverty among the street homeless/rough sleepers and homeless through the provision of items to support basic needs such as sleeping bags, ground sheets, survival sheets, blankets, clothing, food and toiletries. We also aim to improve the individual’s welfare through our welfare and advocacy team.We endeavour to prevent harm to health by referring to emergency and similar services as and when necessary throughout Hastings, Bexhill, St. Leonards, Eastbourne and Lewes. We provide a satellite food bank delivering in excess of 200 food bags a week to rough sleepers and the vulnerably housed homeless. We also have a baby bank and a Vegan bank plus our Homestart scheme, set up to provide those in emergency and temporary accommodation who often have nothing, not even a kettle. We provide these items. We work closely with our local Women's refuges and emergency accommodation hostels and provide books and toys to the children.

Every Thursday lunchtime, Sustenance's volunteers prepares and serves a nutritious three-course meal and a bag of grocery shopping to local people in Hastings and St Leonards experiencing food poverty. We prepare and cook the meals and fill shopping bags with quality surplus produce from local supermarkets and restaurants. We are passionate about reducing food waste, addressing food poverty, championing healthy eating and supporting the community. May 2021 till Jan 2026; 😃 handed out 10,181 full bags of shopping 😃 served 8807 three-course nutritious meals 😃 saved nearly 95.83 tonnes of surplus food from landfill 😃 saved 268+ tonnes of CO2 from going into the atmosphere

Foodbanks in Bexhill and Battle helping anyone in crisis, who is faced with the impossible decision between buying enough food for their family to eat and paying an essential bill. As part of the Trussell family of foodbank we work on a referral system with trusted partners. We also accept self-referrals from those living in our area who have not used the foodbank before. If the clients' needs appear to be longer term, we will connect them with our in-house advice service so they can work with an advisor to ascertain the underlying issues that are causing their crisis. They then take agreed actions together to help change their circumstances for the better with the aim of alleviating the need to use a foodbank. Our foodbanks offer food, hygiene items, cleaning products, baby food/ nappies, pet food, pre-loaded SIMs, signposting, a listening ear, and a cuppa. We also have two subsidised pantries (Pebsham and Battle) where we offer a helping hand to those who can not afford enough good quality food for their family. As part of the Trussell family, we have a Community Development Lead who is working with local people to build a campaign to fight for fairer treatment for all those with low income and impacted by poverty.