ALDI BARNET

The London Community Aid Network (London CAN) London CAN is a grassroots, volunteer-led initiative committed to supporting individuals and families facing hardship across the city. Our mission is to build a more compassionate and inclusive London by providing practical support, promoting community solidarity, and responding to the urgent needs of vulnerable populations. At the heart of our work is the belief that everyone deserves dignity, respect, and access to basic essentials—regardless of their background or circumstances. Food Distribution for Communities in Need One of our core programmes focuses on tackling food insecurity among low-income and marginalised communities. Every week, London CAN works with local partners, food banks, and volunteers to collect, prepare, and distribute fresh, nutritious meals and food parcels to those most in need—including rough sleepers, refugees, families in crisis, and elderly residents on low incomes. We understand that hunger is more than a lack of food—it’s a symptom of broader social inequality. That’s why our food support is designed not only to feed but to uplift. We offer culturally appropriate meals where possible, ensure our services are welcoming and respectful, and connect people with additional resources and support when needed.We are a newly established community initiative focused on providing free food support to individuals and families facing hardship. Operating via a mobile distribution system, we temporarily store food at a residential address before delivery. Our work is rooted in partnerships with local community groups, faith organisations, and schools who help us identify those most in need. A referral system through trusted local partners will be introduced to ensure support is accessible and well-directed. At this early stage, our sole focus is on distributing food parcels. As we grow and secure more resources, we hope to expand our services to include hygiene packs, signposting to additional support, and community outreach events. All services are provided completely free of charge. We are currently applying to join food surplus networks and aim to establish relationships with local supermarkets and food retailers as our operations develop. While we have not yet received local press coverage or launched our social media activity, we plan to actively engage the community and share updates once our food distribution begins. We are also in the process of building relationships with local organisations and welcome future collaborations.

Our organisation base all Borough in England for homelessness, Disabilities, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Domestic violence, Youth and Adult in needs. We provide accommodation for homelessness through our Outreach workers and through Borough Councils. We provides our clients food as-well as daily needs through assessments and key work meeting by allocating support worker/ project worker as the person to speak with and support them at all time. Our Organisation provides everything needed for their day to day of their recovery including benefits and housing needs. There is Housing benefits for individual when qualify for accommodations under our organisation which staff will apply for, to pay direct to Landlord. We do collect both food and household goods from Aldi, M&S and Lidl. I would advice to search for St Mungos organisation for more details of what we do in our communities Best Wishes Grace Olatunji. Locum Project Worker Haringey Hope Horizon St Mungos organisation 530-532 West Green Road, London N15 3DU TEL: 02088882116 Email: grace.Olatunji@mungos.org Neighbourly We are running a 'cookery course', a 'tea and toast drop-in', and a 'lunch club' for our service users. Food donations will be used to support these services.

We found that our community had little support for people suffering Alzheimer's, Dementia or Memory Loss. Myself and 5 other carers decided to open our own club in June 2015. To our surprise we now have over 100 members!!! We are so proud of what we have achieved in a very short space of time. We play games in the morning and every week we organize a paid entertainer to sing, we encourage everyone to join in and dance. For a small charge of £3.00 each we are able to provide tea, coffee, biscuits, cakes and snacks. We are now also able to provide a light lunch every week. We try to bring happiness and laughter not only to the service users but the carers who also needs support. We are a non profit self funding club and totally rely on kind donations and volunteers. We do request every one has to attend with a carer, friend or relative. We would appreciate any help that you could offer.