ALDI CORBY - ROCKINGHAM RD

Rutland Community Fridges have been running sine October 2020. With 4 locations in Oakham and Uppingham and Greetham, we operate for approx 6 hours a week. We have regular contact with around 70 families each week and have saved over 35 tonnes of food to date July 2024. We are looking to refurbish the Community room that our Oakham Community fridge is situated and would be happy to accept donations of paint and other decorating materials from the B&Q Community Reuse Programme.

Linwood Community Cooperative is a charity that runs Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre, which provides: - A building/facility - Provides a Food Bank that supplies food parcels, toiletry parcels, cleaning parcels, fresh and frozen produce, household items to people in need. - Provide people with gas and electricity support and white goods during this cost of living crisis. - We signpost people to relevant agencies for further support. - We help families in crisis - eg furniture for housing issues and domestic violence victims, support for birthdays and Christmas for children and young people. - Community Cafe open 5 days per week, providing affordable meals for the community in an area of deprivation - We hold regular events - including themed specific events at Easter, Halloween and Christmas and Inflatable days, we give away food and items at each event. - Young People Offer - Providing free sports activities to tackle health inequalities giving free healthy snacks at some activities. - Volunteering Opportunities - we supply free food and drink for our volunteers and create training opportunities to progress into work.

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and brand new clothing to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://www.looprun-sciv.online/