ALDI HUCKNALL

We are a joint Muslim-Jewish project, trying to reduce food poverty and create a pleasant and safe environment for our guests. We offer a free hot meal, hot drink and sweet treat plus access to groceries to anyone in the community who needs one, every Wednesday, in the Hyson Green neighbourhood of Nottingham.

Sanatan Community Service is a CIC whose aims are to prevent Food Wastage and address Food Poverty. This CIC was founded in 2020 during Covid lockdown period. The original initiative was to provide hot meals for the homeless, elderly and vulnerable people during the lockdown period but fair to say we haven’t looked back! With the rising cost of living and economic conditions, we felt there was a genuine need in the community. We slowly started a few more initiatives. We are fully volunteer-led, non-profit organisation with approximately 20 individuals who are religiously committed to the cause of “Give back to the community” attitude. We work in partnership with Fareshare, Neighbourly and with various local supermarkets directly. Generally, food donated by various organisations is collected, triaged, and made available to the needy on a weekly basis. We also cook hot meals from these saved ingredients. Currently, we are involved in four different projects based on our two objectives: minimizing food wastage and poverty. Feed the Homeless – Every Saturday morning average 150 hot meals mostly, Indian curry and rice are cooked and delivered to the Framework Charity’s homeless people. Food bank - All donations are made available for the food bank. Currently 160 families are registered and average 70 families come to collect the free groceries every Saturday morning between 9 AM and 11 AM. Community Kitchen – All the food bank consumers are served with the takeaway hot meals every Saturday mornings. Free School Meal Children Hot Food – We are also involved with Nottingham Forest Field in cooking and delivering average 400 meals to the children who are eligible for free school meals during the school holidays.

OT Fundraisers CIC started "OT Food Waste Club" June 2022, with 25 members & has now grown with over 450 members. The food club, creates Food parcels for £3.50 which are worth £10 to £15. On average we create 300 food parcels a week, which are collected by the NG15 Hucknall Community from the new OT Thread Shed, Community Hub. We are hoping the project runs for another 2 years, because of the cost of living crisis. There is no sigma against the boxes, basically, its helps the community, try things at a cheaper price, fills fridges & freezers & helps with cost of living. All funds go towards projects in NG15. In school holidays, we make over 1000 packed lunches. We have had over 10 Free Family Fun Days, were kids & adults come & engage. We have DJ, Face painting, crafts & activities. We also hold on a regular basis, Police Surgeries, Futures (Career advice) & New Changes (Womens Charity) to come & offer support to the community.