ALDI THAMESMEAD

Over the past eight years, Community Needs Foundation (CNF) has worked very hard to build relationships with some of the most deprived and underprivileged individuals in Royal Borough of Greenwich. We operate our foodbank from a community venue in Abbey Wood, South East London, where we sort, and distribute food donations and essential household items to individuals and families in need which includes; family with children, older adults, unemployment/low income, No Recourse to Public Funds. Our service provides a safe and welcoming environment for service users to access support and advice. As a community foodbank, our greatest need is sustainable funding to enable us to continue serving our growing community effectively. We are seeking support to help cover: Core organisational running costs, including rent, utilities, insurance, equipment, and essential operational expenses. Staff salaries, ensuring we can retain experienced staff to coordinate our services, support volunteers, manage referrals, and provide consistent assistance to those in need. Programme funding to expand and sustain our community initiatives, including emergency food provision, culturally appropriate food packages, our Coffee Chat for Over 60s, cookery and healthy eating sessions, and other health and wellbeing activities. Continued food donations, including fresh, frozen, ambient, and culturally appropriate food, to ensure we can provide nutritious food parcels and respond to increasing demand throughout the year. Food and essential supplies, to meet increasing demand from individuals and families experiencing food insecurity. Volunteer recruitment and training, helping us maintain a strong volunteer workforce to deliver our services safely and effectively. With increasing demand for our services and rising operating costs, long-term funding is essential to ensure we can continue supporting vulnerable individuals and families while responding to the changing needs of our local community.

At the moment during the Covid Pandemic we are running a food bank for people in Bexley Borough. We do not ask for vouchers as we find that demeaning and everyone should be entitled to food. We are asking for help with donations to the food bank either monetary or in food. We are also looking to help out with Christmas Hampers these will include a Turkey, vegetables and other Christmas items. We are looking for a company to help us deliver this project. Howbury Friends runs a multitude of projects but our aim for this project is in 3 parts: 1) To collect food surplus and create menus and cookery activities for all ages in the community and to distribute any unused food out to the community. 2) To provide educational activities for all ages, with a safe environment and achievable outcomes such as cookery projects, arts and crafts etc. 3) To support families and adults to help them get back into education, stay in mainstream school or get employment or further education,

We are a Christian organisation that promote the love of Jesus Christ world wide. We are set up to promote faith in God and love in the community. We share the love of Christ to all though the expression of love to all mankind across the globe. Our organisation, The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) operates in over 190 countries of the world and we are in over 700 places in the United Kingdom. We promote the true love of Christ, unity and peace among mankind. We share physical things like food, cloth etc from our donors in the communities where we operate. Duding Covid, we secured a grant of £10,000 from London Community fund for food and toiletries for BAME families. We set up a purchase and distribution plan with the local retail shops that opened at the time. Provided them with a list of the items as contents of each pack for either families or individuals. We sent out information through WhatsApp and other social media in the community requesting interested members of the community to respond to us via a dedicated number with their name, address etc. We reverted to therewith our distribution schedule and time in their area and effect deliveries accordingly. In some instances we worked with the community group leaders to reach their members in a more organised way. Overall we were able to distribute food and toiletries to over 300 BAME families in Greenwich and Bexley boroughs within a few weeks.