ALDI MERSEYSIDE - ST HELENS

St Helen's Zero Waste Community is a part of Liverpool Zero Waste Community CIC based in St Helen's. We redistribute surplus food for free back into the community of St Helen's.

Our community pantry helps local people access affordable food while reducing food waste by redistributing surplus food intercepted from a variety of sources. We are passionate about rescuing good food that would otherwise be discarded and ensuring it benefits people within our community instead. The pantry operates on a low-cost membership basis, with a £5 annual membership fee and £3 per shop (maximum of two shops per week). Members can choose from a wide range of food, helping families and individuals stretch their budgets while maintaining dignity and choice. As well as supporting people with food, we aim to create a welcoming and inclusive community space. Last year, we refurbished and extended our building to better serve local people and recently opened a weekly Pay-As-You-Feel Café. The café is already proving to be a popular and valued space where people can enjoy affordable meals, meet others, and access support in a warm and friendly environment. Everything we do is volunteer-led and rooted in community, sustainability, and supporting local people through challenging times.

Lumi Place CIC is a company based in New Ferry Wirral that is dedicated to helping the community. We are actively involved in fighting food, hygiene, and period poverty. We are operating from own shop premises located in New Ferry Precinct, where we providing FREE OF CHARGE all surplus we do have available. With our efforts, we aim to make a positive impact and improve the lives of those in need. Lumi Place CIC is committed to providing support, resources, and assistance to individuals and families facing these challenges. Through our initiatives, we are strive to create a more inclusive and equitable society for everyone in the community. We serve community by providing food surplus (when available) to every member of public, we also delivering any surplus and hygiene products to homeless shelters like Rosebrae and The Bridge in Birkenhead. We also provide help to local Primary School where we redistributing food surplus, children hygiene products and feminine hygiene products. Our little sister department PePo Bank who fight period poverty supplying any feminine hygiene products to local companies and offices to help woman in need or poverty go through their difficult days. We are proud that within our community we have all spectrum of users. Our youngest users are just tern 18 and they struggling with finance wellbeing so we can provide for them food, household items, clothes , hygiene products and much more. The oldest user of ours is 96 years old and she depending on our food donations. Other elderly members are 70 - 90 years old and they using us for getting food surplus, help in little house repairs and also in what is most important company, so their can talk to someone. We also proudly helping to Ukrainian War refugees living in our community. Lumi Place is helping Community of New Ferry to get back to the state like before 2017 when huge gas explosion put this place and its community in depravation state.