ALDI WREXHAM - PLAS COCH RETAIL PARK

We have two main priorities, waste reduction and anti poverty so we tackle poverty sustainably, reducing single use waste and preventing unnecessary items from entering landfill. We are passionate about our environment and we are passionate about people. We provide reusable sanitary products to eliminate period poverty for the recipients, with products lasting for upwards of a decade. We currently cover Flintshire & Wrexham. We collect and deliver fresh, nutritious food from store to door, 7 days a week; tackling in work poverty, hunger, food waste and malnutrition. Christmas Eve 2023 saw us provide food to over 26,000 people; using surplus food that would have perished in warehouses during the holiday store closures. Between 24-31st December 2023, we redistributed over 110 tonnes of surplus food! We collect, restore and redistribute baby essentials to those unable to afford them. We support and enable the use of reusable nappies for all, providing them for free for those in need, for as long as required. We currently actively cover Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham but support can be accessed from residents of bordering counties. We impose no criteria as we believe it takes a significant amount of pride swallowing to ask for help. We enable beneficiaries to retain their dignity by providing whichever service is required anonymously. We’re not too sure if we’re innovators or a bit bonkers but it works! History: Wrexham Nappy Library was born in November 2015 to aid and enable the use of real nappies for people in need in the Wrexham County. This began with free trials of a variety of types of nappy with full support and guidance. Within a short period of time, newer versions of brands were released. Now, it is essential to keep trial kits up to date. As a result, we were left with a huge surplus of obsolete but perfectly functional nappies which we decided to offer to struggling families for as long as they needed, free of charge, with the simple request that upon cessation of use, they're returned to benefit another family. We began tackling period poverty in 2016, initially by adding menstrual cups to long term loan kits but quickly revised our methods and make them available to all. We commenced food deliveries in 2017 to tackle hunger discreetly, and to divert food waste from landfill. We also get infrequent donations of baby clothes and goods which are passed on for free to families who need them - returns of these items are not requested, instead we politely ask the families to pay them forward.

Hightown Community Resource Centre provides and promotes a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable community facility that serves the needs of the community. We aim to engage with local residents, families and the wider community in Hightown Wrexham to encourage and promote health, welfare and well-being. We strive to offer the local community facilities and services that it needs and finds beneficial. To help combat holiday hunger we offer a FREE breakfast club (Holiday Food & Fun) during certain school holidays 9.30 til 11am. Children (who must be accompanied by a parent / carer) and their parent are invited to join us for breakfast and games (Food & Fun). Also our local community greatly value any surplus food donations that we receive.

We are a group of local volunteers who work to rescue 'date up' food from supermarkets, and get this food out into the community where it will be used, rather than go to landfill. We organise food boxes for people on request (either via messaging this page, or sometimes they will be referred by other people who are aware of what we do). We have built up a list of over 100 people now, and we take them in turn for a box. Photos of boxes ready to go out, or awaiting chilled food are shown in our media gallery. We also advertise boxes on our Facebook page when we have excess food available. We also help local charities and community groups by supplying excess food to them, thus helping them keep their costs down, and keep food waste to an absolute minimum. Also, this helps get food to people who are not on Facebook, especially the elderly.