ALDI NEWPORT - RISCA

The Parish Trust is a Christian based organisation but exists for the benefit of everyone in the local area. The Parish Trust is the umbrella organisation for a number of projects, our largest being the CARE Project which delivers food parcels and pastoral care to those in need. We launched Caerphilly Baby bank in January 2025, supporting expecting and new mothers with essential maternity and baby supplies. We also offer bereavement courses, a data bank for those struggling with digital access and a thriving community of groups and activities for children and young people.

No Poverty

Our grass roots, not for profit group has been set up entirely by volunteers living in the community we want to support, in response to the cost of living crisis and the post-Covid loneliness epidemic. We have big plans and have started with a Community Pantry. In the 4 weeks we have been operational, we have signed up 58 households in the neighbourhood and distributed close to 300kg of food, much of which would otherwise have gone to landfill. We have sourced the food from supermarket partners set up via Neighbourly. The project has been extremely well received by the community, but at the moment we are working from a temporary base while we arrange funding for more permanent premises, which we hope to set up on our local allotments site. Once we have our own space, we have ambitious plans for cook-a-longs, social gatherings for those isolated people in our community and pop-up sessions with other local support groups, energy providers, councillors and charities.