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REHOBOTH COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLUB located 1-18 Allwood Close, Sydenham SE26 4JP is a charity and it has been entered onto the Register of Charities with the Registered Charity Number 1168822. Rehoboth Community Outreach club started reaching out to vulnerable families in 2013, offering befriending, parenting & life skills training. Over time the services evolved expanding to offer mentoring to young people, employment skills training and a food bank. In March 2014 Rehoboth started receiving requests for support with addressing the increasing issue of food poverty amongst the single homeless living in hostels and the local street homeless, this saw the launch of the Community Lunch Club. Initially the lunch club was feeding 20 people every Monday with a 2 course hot meal. But this number quickly grew to 150 people a week when Rehoboth partnered with Miriam Lodge providing meals to their most vulnerable homeless residents. The partnership has expanded and Rehoboth community outreach club “The Lunch Club” now deliver 200 meals every Monday across 2 hostels. In addition, we have some homeless people living locally in the community who walk-in and collect their meals. The feeding programme also provides a soup social, with home cooked vegetable and chicken soup with rolls to the residents in the hostels on a Friday. The generosity of our local donors business and others in neighbouring community, with financial donations from the church membership and individuals, make it possible to provide our services free to vulnerable individuals and families. The community outreach service is facilitated by a team of 25 volunteers who cook, serve food, clean, deliver the meals, and provide the befriending, mentoring and training activities. Rehoboth hopes to double its feeding programme to 300 meals a week by the end of 2018; to support at least 50 homeless people to capacity build their employment and life skills, enhancing their potential of accessing employment, education and training opportunities. The Rehoboth Community Outreach Club aims are to contribute to breaking the generational cycle of poverty and deprivation within families, inspire hope & healing in the heart and soul of vulnerable individuals and communities and encourage peace, unity and respect across generations. We seek and appreciate further financial, time and resource donations that enable us to meet our vision of UK communities free from food poverty and benefiting from sustained upward social and economic mobility for everyone. A donation of £2.50 provides one hot meal; £10 provides 4 hot meals. For further information please contact. REHOBOTH COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLUB Bank: Barclay's Sort code: 20-57-76 A/c no: 03050181 @RehobothCharity Email: Rehobothcommunityoutreachclub@rcoc.org.uk Paula Walker-Litchmore Founder Rehoboth Community Outreach Club 07946 354617

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. 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 impact 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 brand new clothing to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. 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 has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://www.looprun-sciv.online/

FoodCycle exists to relieve food poverty, rescue food from going to waste, and reduce social isolation by providing a welcoming and friendly environment where people in the local community come together to eat a healthy, nutritious, vegetarian three-course meal. FoodCycle Lewisham is a project, managed by Lewisham Local, which began in 2016. Open to everyone in the local community, FoodCycle Lewisham particularly supports people experiencing food injustice including those in temporary accommodation, older people who are living on their own, people with physical disabilities, those with long-term health conditions or experiencing poor mental health. The meal is located in the Rushey Green Ward of Catford, which is one of the most deprived wards in Lewisham. In 2023, FoodCycle Lewisham saved 5720kgs of food from going to landfill and served 3540 meals by using food that would otherwise go to landfill but is still fit for human consumption. We welcome an average of 80 guests through our doors every Saturday and on average 40 guests every Wednesday. However, eating together is about more than saving food. Shared mealtimes are social activities that deliver health and environmental benefits. 69% of our guests tell us that they feel less lonely, 77% say that the meal makes them feel happier and 88% say that they have a new reason to leave the house. Our guests also tell us: 'FoodCycle has proved to be valuable to a lot of people. You can make new friends and have someone to talk to. It helps relieve the loneliness. The standard of food provided is really good and proves that you can make a little from a lot.' Many more of our guests say that they now eat more fruit and vegetables, try food that they haven't eaten before, and that FoodCycle Lewisham has helped them to learn what foods support their health: 'It's good because it encourages us to eat what we should be eating.' We look forward to enjoying your support whether through volunteering or donations.