ALDI BLYTH

Age UK Northumberland is an independent local charity which provides services for older adults throughout Northumberland. Our central service is free information, advice and advocacy. Other services are designed to meet local needs and currently include: day care and personal care, befriending, exercise and falls prevention classes, lunch clubs and day centres. As an independent charity we rely on fundraising, grants and in-kind support to sustain our services for the older people of Northumberland.

Community Food and Friendship Blyth is a small registered charity number 1191399 based in Blyth Northumberland. The group has nine trustees and many volunteers who work with adults and children who face challenging times to find enough food to eat. We offer a free Bacon Butty drop in for men every Thursday morning and provide emergency food, clothes, toiletries and work with partner organizations who offer advice, training and counselling. We also work with local schools providing crisis food boxes on request, Christmas toys and Christmas Eve Food Hampers by referral, all food and other items are donated by local businesses and the local community. None of this would be possible without our fabulous volunteers who collect, pack and deliver often with little notice.

We are sending out parcels to people in our local communities NE13. Also covering NE postcodes as well as Northumberland, Sunderland, North Tyneside. if a NEED (condition, illness or high risk) comes in such as an isolated young lady, pregnant with no means to access the stores or family we will support and help with emergency food parcel until she can get her benefits and delivery slot with supermarket, we will also welfare check every client who is isolated. we have a whole row of bungalows of isolated elderly who have not come out since told not to, and not be able to access family as a family are either no longer here or isolated themselves. Support and advice for families with an additional, complex and, or neurological need. encourage inclusion in external activities and confidence to express growth and co-production with all relevant services. reduce family and child poverty in the home and school. reduce and support individuals with mental health and pre-diagnosis in spectrum conditions. encourage volunteer and work opportunities. Mother and babies parcels for pregnant and new mums