ALDI NOTTINGHAM - DALESIDE RD

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.

We provide free help and support for people on the margins of society. We fight for disadvantaged people in the UK to relieve all suffering from poverty, social exclusion, sickness and particularly among people affected by substance addictions which includes solvent abuse, drug and alcoholism addiction etc. Within our Christian community centres, we aim to offer help and restoration of such people and their families. We are a registered charity in the UK. Our services are completely free. We have a burden to reach out and care for young offenders and their families. We educate the public and those affected by solvent abuse, drug, and alcohol addiction and raise public awareness of the danger of drug misuse.

- Accommodation/housing - Other charities or voluntary bodies - Other defined groups SOTA is a 10-bed hostel for male rough sleepers who have been referred to us mainly via the Street Outreach Team. Most of the service users who come through our doors have complex needs such as, mental health problems, alcohol and drug related issues and history of offending. Our aim is to help service users gain some independent living skills, budgeting skills, as well as helping them access services that they require such as drugs and alcohol teams, mental health services, accommodation services, probation etc. Framework is a charity and any donations are greatly received. The majority of service users that walk through our doors and are supported by us struggle with maintaining a healthy diet and sometimes only live on one meal a day (with toast and the odd donated meal here and there). As a service we do a weekly shops and this is just for the basics. Any surplus food would be a massive help and would encourage the service users to gain a bit more independence.