ALDI GREAT HARWOOD

We support families within the BB postcodes, offering various forms of help through pregnancy, birth and beyond. Founded in 2011 by Michelle Bromley. Snowdrop Doula Community Interest Company provides antenatal, birth and postnatal support in Lancashire. Working from various hubs, we provide continuous one to one and group support for families throughout the pregnancy and postnatal period. We work with other local services and organisations as and when needed.

Arise Restoration Centre is a faith-based charity established 19th February 2019. Our object is to relieve the needs of people in North West England, but not exclusively in the Blackburn and wider East Lancashire regions, who are in need. Hardship or distress by providing support, education, and temporary and longer term accommodation with the object of improving their conditions of life within a Christian ethos. Arise Restoration Centre operates a “Crisis Intervention and Restoration” programme called “Project Arise.” Project Arise collaborates with other community based organisations to deliver services to our beneficiaries, namely; - Bank Top Neighbourhood Learning Centre, Blackburn. - Blackburn Rovers Community Trust, Ewood. -Blackburn Vineyard Church Children's Storehouse. Project Arise's main activity is delivering its “Health and Wellbeing Initiative” which has three distinct components: 1. Feed Our People Crusade 2. Grow Your Wellbeing – “Grow Your Own” (Community Gardens) 3. Cycle For Life. Arise is a community partner with FareShare and we support people in our communities by: - Feeding needy families and individuals - The Homeless - Refugees & Asylum seekers - Mental Health & Wellbeing support In 2021, we collected 7,724 kgs of ambient food, and delivered 8,640 food parcels, a 150% increase from 2020

Every day, people go hungry in the UK for all kinds of reasons, from changes and delays in the benefits system to redundancy to receiving an unexpectedly large bill for a major repair. A simple box of food makes a big difference, with foodbanks helping prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems. Blackburn Foodbank relies on the support of local people, businesses and communities to help alleviate poverty and hunger in our community. Food donations Non-perishable in-date food is donated by the public at places across the local community, such as schools,churches and businesses, as well as supermarket collection points. It is then sorted and packed into boxes by volunteers, ready to be given to people in need. Food vouchers Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, schools and social workers identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher. They can exchange this voucher for a foodbank parcel of three days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food. The help we give… Our foodbanks offers a lot more than food. Our volunteers offer a listening ear to clients over a warm drink, and signpost people to other charities and agencies who can help resolve the underlying cause of the crisis. There are many ways to help The Trussell Trust as a volunteer from helping at collection points, to stock-taking and audits, to helping us refurbish our premises. We can continue supporting people in crisis thanks to passionate people giving their time to help their hungry neighbours. Please get involved by following our project page and share this project with your friends and followers using the social icons on this page. Click the volunteering tab above to see our upcoming volunteer events and sign up to help us tackle food poverty together.