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Dyslexia Support offers benefit advice and support with welfare benefits ensuring that people get the benefits they are entitled as well as advising on Special Education Needs. COMMUNITY LINKS FOOD PROJECT IS CELEBRATING ITS 10th year We started the community links food project in 2015. This is our 10th year of delivering the project. During lockdown we widened the remit of the Community Links food project. The purpose of this project is to bring communities together through using food waste to bring people together and reduce isolation. We do not have our own building and ensure that all the food reach individuals in the most effective way to our beneficiaries within the community. Our community volunteers (25) identify individuals or small organisations supporting people in need within their local area. The project has grown over the years and to help meet the need we have partnered with local organisations to help with distribution of the donated food, using their knowledge to address the needs of local people. The project is free to all beneficiaries. We do not publicise any of our work in recognition of the needs of our beneficiaries. The community organisations are based within the boroughs of Islington, Camden, Southwark, Lambeth, Barnet and Haringey. The partner organisations who help with the distribution of donated food are: Bayham Street Community in Camden -Unpaid Carer's, people with disabilities and local people in need. Social work Christrian community of London - refugees awaiting asylum, these families are not entitled to benefits-Colindale. Grace Baptist Church Haringey- street people, homeless and the elderly. Hilldrop Community Centre in Islington- Children, the elderly and families in need. Brickworks Community Centre, Islington-elderly and families in need. The Brixton soup kitchen, Lambeth- street people and homeless. Parma Community Centre, Lambeth-older people. Melbourne House, Lambeth-Sheltered housing. The Community Links Food Project runs 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. The project is totally self-funded. It relies on donations from people in the community who are not beneficiaries of the project. The number of beneficiaries in any given week is 432 individuals. We have extensive discrete photographs of our work. All our services are free.

We are Hub of community centres in Islington. We are providing food and care packages for the most vulnerable in our society. We are seeking food, toiletries, washing powder and anything else that people who are isolated would appreciate. Any donations would make a massive difference to our operation. We are delivering to houses that are in need on lots of ways. These parcels are important part of keeping people healthy.