ALDI NOTTINGHAM - RADFORD BOULEVARD

Founded by Bee 🤗, The Bee-Hive Community Food Hub is a grassroots initiative dedicated to reducing food waste and supporting the community with essential food supplies. Join us in creating a world where food is valued and shared!

To help residents achieve a set standard of social purpose. Harvest Community Haven CIC provides food bank for the community. A warm space in the cold months for members of the community to sit and have a chat, a hot drink and talk to a friendly face. Support families who have children with toys, games, and activities, provide social engagement such as a youth club, over 55s group and Mother and Baby group. The organisation will act as a haven and a source of community engagement-multi-provisional hub also as a deterrent or a preventative tool with regards to tackling isolation and loneliness and by extension mental health related challenges will also be addressed especially among communities where mental health is a huge taboo subject.  Recreation and leisure services (e.g. Community library, community garden etc)  Community Café  Youth centres or empowerment projects  Network/collaborations with other local groups and organisations  Skills and training services  Health and social care services  Welfare or advisory services for vulnerable or disadvantaged people We operate from the Harvest Resource Centre at 154 Queens Road NG9 2FF We identify the people who use our services through word of mouth in the community, local collaborations with other agencies and projects such as social prescribers and support groups. We occasionally donate to a homeless shelter in Beeston and invite them to collect food items from where we operate., we share leaflets during outreaches and door to door visits and those who need the support engage with our services. We also support the community with friendly volunteers to lend a listening ear and chat to, many people are lonely and need company, Some people ask for prayer so we pray with them. We offer informal counselling and emotional support, Signpost people to the different services on the county website, We also offer academic support and career guidance from some of our volunteers who are lectures and Drs in their field of study. 2 times a year we run a community wardrobe (free clothing) for a few weeks. There are no charges for our services. We don't collect food from any supermarkets. We don't use any local press yet but we intend to publicize in the NG9 monthly magazine and other facebook communications - Nottingham We've uploaded some photographs to this page. We also advertise on the Nottingham Mutual Aid FB page. Some local supermarkets and community centres in Beeston. some of our visitors also post our posters on their social media pages. We've partnered with Diversify Education and Communities CIC, occasionally with HopeUK,

We are a grassroots organisation addressing poverty and hunger and social inequality in all its guises. Panic buying and Covid 19 has disrupted our provisions dramatically. We have put some contingency plans in place for the elderly how we get out to them, as well as those in need. Food and financial donations have slowed down - donations are crucial. Our strategy for food parcels, collection and deliveries are affected as we can no longer bulk buy when needed due to the nation's concern over the spread of the virus and lockdown of services. Last week ending 18/4 we sent out 150 parcels to individuals and families, spending on average £100 daily Please help us reach the most vulnerable in our area