ALDI PRESTATYN

Abergele Community Shop has been developed by Abergele Community Action (registered charity number 1125169) with funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Aimed at helping people who are struggling with the increased cost of living or with a much lower level of disposable income, the Community Shop, which is based on Platform 1 (beach side) of Pensarn Station, will be a social supermarket with a difference. The Community Shop will redistribute food, consisting of high-quality products that have been supplied by FareShare. FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food re-distributors, made up of 18 independent organisations, taking good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and supplying frontline charities and community groups.

To achieve a support system working with local agencies to help through an connected approach to alleviate food poverty, period poverty, as well as nappies loo rolls and general sanitary products We work with volunteers who give 6 to 10 hours a week to help run the bank. During Covid we are running with a delivery model with volunteers delivering food parcels directly to clients doorsteps Whilst the foodbank is closed to the public

As part of Denbighshire County Council, based at Hafan Deg day centre in Rhyl, our aim within the UK Resettlement team is to help all Syrian, Afghan, asylum families and families who are fleeing the war in Ukraine . We support with many issues, including housing, education, english learning and all the key areas which support their integration into their local communities. Whilst we primarily work out of our office, we also offer a drop in setting once a week and regularly go out to visit our families in their homes, and the local area. Our families are identified to us by Home office or Welsh government. Due to the cost of living crisis, a large number of our families have been struggling to fund a basic lifestyle and have resorted to food banks to help support them. Food is an incredibly important part of the different cultures we support and is used to show love and support. Any food donations we receive would be handed out to the families we are currently supporting, with more to come as the weeks go on.