ALDI GLASGOW - ROBROYSTON

G.E.S.H is a voluntary organisation which has been running in the heart of the East End of Glasgow for over 40 years. We offer a positive hub of community, friendship & care to over 600 members, particularly those with mental & physical disabilities. G.E.S.H can also be used to provide training, social & recreational services for everyone. People around the Greater Easterhouse / Garthamlock area use the centre on a weekly basis as a thriving social club and as an entertainment and activity venue. You can also hire G.E.S.H for functions and private events. We are proud to provide our members with meal services, including a Wednesday lunch club, a tasty canteen and affordable catering for your community event. The centre is open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm & then from 6pm-10pm. Opening times over the weekend may alternate & can be flexible & negotiable. Premises are wheelchair friendly.

Here at Shakespeare Street Youth Club, we value the importance of teaching young people key life skills to help them in the future, even after they are no longer attending. Cooking, food hygiene, safety and storage are a few areas which we cover in our weekly Cooking Group. Our group is available to anyone between the ages of 8-14 who wishes to learn basic cooking skills and practice staple recipes they can then make at home. The young people then sit down round a table and enjoy the food they have made and write down the recipe which will go into a fundraising cookbook made by themselves. We mostly focus on healthy recipes and encourage everyone to try new things (especially if they think they don't like them!). At the end of each intake, we take the group out for a meal where they can be cooked for, instead being the cook themselves! At the moment, we have an extensive waiting list for our cooking group. This means every school term we take in 10 new members in place of the previous group and keep on 2 as youth helpers.

We run two projects under the banner of The Everlasting Foodbank. Our foodbank is for people to receive emergency food in times of crisis or need. We also give people clothing, toiletries and a friendly face to chat with. Alongside food we encourage people to sit with us and chat over some coffee/tea and buiscuits. Sometimes we find that we can be the only people that someone talks to that day. We have been well supported by the local community who find us to be reassuringly approachable. Up to today we have fed over 1600 people after opening for just about 4 years. The hope and aim is to be able to be a resource for the community and help people with their immediate need but also help them to recover from their current crisis situation. We have recently launched a community cafe. This helps people in need (those who would qualify to use the foodbank) with free hot food made by our team of volunteer chefs. There is encouragement of socialising between cafe users and similar to the foodbank we have people who will sit and talk with users. The cafe provides job experience for those who use the foodbank by letting them volunteer in the cafe itself. This greatly helps to move people from reliance on foodbanks to get back into work. Alongside the cafe we also provide a one-to-one drop-in centre for help and signposting.