M&S Old St

Support for families with children in hospital by the provision of home away from home accommodation.

We are a not-for-profit company dedicated to supporting disadvantaged communities dealing with food poverty. Having partnered with a local school we are bringing a food pantry to our local community to support those affected by the cost of living. We collect and redistribute food in our community five times weekly to a school, a hostel, local community groups and a weekly community food outreach project. We support communities going through hardships, health and wellbeing issues by running projects to enable, inspire and empower individuals, families and also businesses. All of our projects are managed by individuals with personal life experience in the given subject. This company was inspired by our Founder, Tarajii, having gone through her own personal hardships in life. This is a grass roots company for the people, by the people. For businesses, we promote wellbeing in the workplace by running personalised workshops. We also aim to bridge the gap between public and private sectors, bringing businesses together and building stronger communities.

Community Food Hub is a project started by Hackney charity Children With Voices in light of COVID-19 to support the vulnerable, homeless, struggling families and the elderly in our community in this difficult time. We collect donation surplus food to feed and support our community. We support families and children who face holiday hunger, and who, now more then ever, are having a difficult time due to lack of food, lack of access to benefits or difficulty accessing the right support. We need volunteers to help run our Community Food Hubs – dropping of food to the vulnerable and the self isolating, collecting our food donations from various locations, and in the day-to-day running of our hubs. We run 2 hubs around Hackney and are providing 60+ packages weekly, some for large families with small children. These families need our support and are the most at risk and vulnerable in our community – those with children who are carers to their parents, those whose first language may not be English, those who are self-isolating, those with mental health problems. We help by providing them with what they need to survive. We support our local communities.