ALDI KINGSTANDING

For the last 20 years, HAOS has been enhancing the life chances of our children, young people and families through school enrichment, youth social action and family health and wellbeing projects. As an independent charity, we work to bring together schools and communities in Handsworth, an inner-city area high in deprivation and diversity. Handsworth has a BAME population over 60% with low incomes and high levels of poverty being prevalent. 51% of Birmingham's current asylum claimants are living in this area. Holyhead school in Handsworth reported in 2020 that it had three times the national average number of pupils receiving free school meals, typical of most schools our area with 45% of children are trapped below the poverty line. We offer opportunities to hundreds of children and young people each year to help build their confidence, extend positive social networks, improve wellbeing, reduce anti-social behaviour and develop skills and goals for life. HAOS understands that family life has a huge effect on children's development and attainment, and we work community wide to support wellbeing from running a busy foodbank, delivering mental health programs, and providing holiday and after school schemes for hundreds of children and young people each year and training professionals.

We work in Erdington and provide support to the local and wider community. We help families in need of help with food, clothing and skills required to go back into paid employment. We also provide short term support for families when they are in temporary accommodation. We offer supportive services for families with children who have additional needs or any other complex issues in the family home.

We are all small group of parents, teachers and community enthusiasts who aim to improve the education ans overall well-being of all students who attend Kings Rise Academy. We aim to improve the literacy and environmental education that all children receive through initiatives and events to raise funds to improve the current school grounds. Kings Rise Academy prides itself on supporting all families in need! For many years the school has run a weekly food bank on a Wednesday which supplies essential food packages to families in need. The school communicates the availability through the in house communication platform to families and they advise the school, via a Google form, it they are in need of support. The school currently has its own set up with food arrangements however the PTFA has always offered a helping hand with distribution. Recently, we have seen a growth in the number of families who need support, however we do not have the resources to feed all the families who come to us. As our PTFA evolves over time we have become aware of where our support is most needed for children and families. We have now decided to get on board with the existing team at the school to see if we can also provide surplus food to boost the amount of food we can hand out to families. This will allow us for provide necessary food parcels to even more families and ensure that when food is needed, nobody goes hungry! Friends of Kings Rise PTFA do not charge for any surplus food donations and currently have no surplus food donations in place to offer the existing set up and we have not had any media involvement in our efforts at this time. Recent Projects: Recently we established that some of the wider school grounds which are viewed by the general public needed sprucing up. A team of 4 volunteers came together and tackled the weeds, rubbish and old plants to give the area a new and fresher look! Fundraising: Our Easter event went extremely well and we were able to raise just over £200. This allowed us to purchase new bikes, trikes and scooters for our youngest students in the nursery at Kings Rise Academy :)