ALDI THAMESMEAD

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/

Wecare4all UK is a charitable organisation - Religious activities - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - Other charities or voluntary bodies - The general public/mankind - Other charitable activities Wecare identifies service users through counselling, job centres, signposting, and community outreach. Please check our social media for other services provided by Wecare Ministry UK. Wecare Ministry UK do not charge for services provided. Greggs and Pret manger but pret have transferred us neighbourly. Please check our social media for photographs- Facebook, Instagram and website. WeCare Ministry operates from our community centre located at Tesco car park woolwich. The premises include a main hall for food distribution, private rooms for counselling and support services, and storage facilities for donations and surplus food. We also operate pop-up outreach locations in partnership with local churches and community hubs. We identify service users through referrals from local authorities and faith organisations. We also have an open-door policy where individuals can self-refer. Upon first contact, we carry out a basic needs assessment to understand their immediate challenges—be it food insecurity, homelessness risk, or social isolation—and tailor our support accordingly. In addition to food support, WeCare Ministry provides emotional support, faith-based counselling, clothing distribution, financial hardship guidance, and signposting to mental health, housing, and employment services. We also run seasonal community outreach events such as winter care packages and feed the homeless every Tuesdays. All services provided by WeCare Ministry are completely free of charge. We are a donation-funded and volunteer-driven initiative committed to supporting vulnerable individuals without financial barriers. WeCare Ministry collects surplus food from several local supermarkets, bakeries, and wholesalers who support our mission. These partners include Greggs and local supermarkets, and we follow strict food safety standards when handling and redistributing donations. WeCare Ministry has been featured in local community newsletters, online news platforms, and church bulletins. Coverage has highlighted our impact during the COVID-19 pandemic, holiday food drives, and collaborative events with other community partners.

World of Hope is committed to raising Youth Ambassadors that will become tomorrow's leaders through our mentoring, training, coaching, and citizenship programmes which will equip them to positively impact their communities. World of Hope has a food bank that distributes food to families with no recourse to public funds, refuge, unemployed and those affected by Covid. We support young people to break the circle of crime. We also provide food for elderly and lonely people in Lewisham, Greenwich, Southwark and Bexley boroughs. We partner with the police, social services and youth offending services. World of Hope has been in operation since 2005. We have been running the Youth Centre for our Youth Academy in Abbeywood since 2008. During the first lockdown the Youth Academy had to close and we had a lot of parents phoning us reporting a lack of food. This was because a lot of workplaces had to close so parents weren’t earning money so couldn’t afford food. We started contacting stores and individuals for food, then created the foodbank. Our food distribution was broadcasted by the BBC during the Covid outbreak in April 2021 which exposed our excellent work and led to a huge increase in demand for our foodbank. We are supported by Greenwich Co-operative Development Agency, Morrisons, Tesco and FareShare. We’re experiencing greater and greater demand for our services, especially food. We identify the needs of the people in the community by assessing their income and status. People do not like to beg for food but when they have no choice they come to us and we provide them with adequate and healthy food stuff that give them Hope. Now they come to Hope up about their mental health issues, housing and children challenges. We don’t charge for our foodbank services. World of Hope received Mayor Award in Lewisham Council in 2020, we also received Mayor Award in 2021 from Royal B. Greenwich; we were nominated by my Councillor Anne Marie- Cousins.