ALDI HATFIELD

Community led charity with a focus on social cohesion. Providing food aid to 600 people every week, baby items, educational intervention, free sport activities for youth and financial support for disadvantaged families across St Albans, London Colney, Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City. SACP holds a food hygiene rating of 5 at our unit with fridges/freezers/storage space in AL3 6EN. We have 50+ volunteers who between them hold food handling/hygiene certificates and are DBS checked. Food parcels are packed at the unit and delivered to doorsteps where needed or ppl collect from the unit. The service is free of charge and all volunteers are unpaid. We support 600ppl a week with fresh produce boxes. Referrals are made by other local organisations and authorities including schools, health visitors, family/social workers, Refugee Council, St Albans Old People’s Trust, Druglink, Citizen’s Advice Bureau, residents’ associations and more. Read more about our work in the press here: https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/can-you-help-food-parcels-fundraiser-6903930 https://www.hertsad.co.uk/things-to-do/abbey-theatre-helps-sopwell-foodbank-6913492 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56029947 We are in particular need of fresh produce including eggs/milk/fruit/vegetables.

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/

Myself together with 5 amazing ladies formed a voluntary group with the aim of helping the needy residents of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire . We found a venue, visited the local shops and together with some food donations we fed 31 families in our 1st week and 53 in our 2nd! WD6 Food Support was officially opened by Councillor Michelle Vince who represents one of the most deprived areas in Hertsmere! If anyone could help us with donations that would be amazing. We are now moving to new premises within a local school which is in a really deprived area of our community and we hope we will be able to help alleviate some of the food poverty in the area.