ALDI ST HELENS - CLOCK FACE RD

We are a local Primary School who have set up a local hub within our school grounds to help and support our school families. We are supporting our school families with essentials to survive the current crisis. We set up the hub offering food, coats, shoes, uniform, books and toys. We are used most days and will support with what we can. People are needing to access emergency supplies across our community because they cannot afford to buy food. Your donations will mean food hubs can fill the gap until poverty levels are reduced. We are trying our best to relive anxiety and support our school community. Every little help goes a very long way.

We provide good quality food to our members. Our pantry is held once a week on Wednesdays between 11 am and 1 pm. Our members pay £5 per visit and can take home between £15-£20 worth of food. The majority of the food we offer comes from surplus from supermarkets/shops and would otherwise have gone to landfill. We have increased the average number of members visiting by 25% in the last 6 weeks and need to source more food to meet the increasing demand.

We are survivor led support and advocacy for those affected by Domestic Abuse in the newton le willows area. Domestic Abuse WA12 established in 2021 . Having our own domestic abuse journeys we united to help tackle the gaps in services that we both fell through. Evolving along our way we now run support groups, well-being pathways of healing and recovery , training and development and have also added at the beginning of this year our greatly received surplus food share programme - this is a community project not just domestic abuse related where we collect surplus foods from local food venues and distribute into our local community of WA12 . We have no requirements for this food collection wise anyone can help save the foods from landfill but also this is a highly valued addition in our area for those that are also struggling with the current economic climate - which in turn can then feed into the domestic abuse arena . Additional projects also include clothes recycling and a community garden for partnership projects - healing and wellbeing . We distribute via our local church hall daily We are unfunded and volunteer led. We offer confidential support, including advocacy, survivor led empowerment, signposting, 2-1 support, weekly meetings with other survivors, risk management and crisis management, safety action plans, a safe space, clean laptops, and Internet access, and support into recovery pathways. We also offer learning workshops, education around domestic abuse, healthy relationships, positive mental health practices, and confidence and self esteem. Additionally we offer access to holistic therapies such as guided meditation, yoga, reiki and other healing therapies.