ALDI BURY - WOOD ST

We are Bury Seventh Day Adventist church, based at 32 Parkhill’s Road, Bury, BL9 9HS - Charity Number: 1045501. As a small community church with a vision for providing a safe and warm place for vulnerable, lonely, struggling families to come and have some food, get a food parcel and have a conversation with someone. In doing this we tackle loneliness, isolation and tough times for people who are struggling both financially and emotionally during these tough times. We started out as a soup kitchen for rough sleepers a year ago, it has become apparent that there is a larger need for people struggling to make basic ends meet and who are socially isolated. We hope to continue giving out a meal with a food parcel in our open-air car park, following Covid government guidelines

We are a non profit organisation and have a team of volunteers who feed the homeless and low income families throughout Bury whitefield and Radcliffe We provide food parcels meals and toiletries to people in need We also support vulnerable people in shared accommodations who have been homeless and are waiting to be rehoused We are self funded and use donations from supermarkets that would have previously been wasted We pick up donations 6 days per week then make up and deliver food parcels Currently we support well over 100 people per week

Together Trust is a charity providing special education, residential services, fostering, family support and community services. We believe everybody deserves an equal chance in life. There are no exceptions. This includes those with behavioural problems, learning difficulties, physical disabilities and autism spectrum conditions. Everyone has the ability and the right to experience joy, happiness and hope. One of our services is Inscape House School. This is a non-maintained day special school in Cheadle, Cheshire. We support children and young people with autism spectrum conditions and related social communication difficulties from Year 1 to Year 14. We run a breakfast club for the children and young people as they often arrive at school without having breakfast. This makes it harder for them to focus and learn. Many children who have autism experience great anxiety as mealtime approaches. The underlying reasons can include sensory aversions and fear of unfamiliar foods. Inadvertently, families can make anxiety worse by trying to force a child to eat, setting up a pattern of mealtime stress. Fear and anxiety can shut down hunger in a powerful way by putting the child’s body in a state of 'fight or flight'. Our Nurture breakfast is a safe homely space that children can enter, to access food and talk with their friends. This helps to improve their social skills and also learn about their emotions.