ALDI TIR-Y-BERTH

We love our city of Cardiff. We believe eliminating food poverty is within our grasp. We believe that empowering individuals, and groups to believe that their simple contribution can make a huge difference, is key. Food poverty is a reality. It’s in every corner of society. A common topic of conversation in our communities and culture. Frequently discussed, researched, investigated, but it continues. At Food4All we operate to make it simple for any willing volunteers to bring food to anyone who can benefit from it. Our volunteers might work in schools, volunteer with community groups, support those elderly or vulnerable, work within schools, mosques, churches, leisure centres! The list goes on and whether big or small, we simply help them all. Volunteers register with the Food4All leadership team. We discuss their community involvement and agree on a weekly plan of food collections. The volunteers are then linked with individual local stores, and supported by the Food4All team to collect donated food on a weekly basis. As a team of around 30 volunteers, we all work together to share, support and encourage. We work 365 days of the year. We support Food Banks, support schools by supplying food for their breakfast clubs, parent cookery classes; food for pensioners in retirement accommodation, asylum seekers and refugees as well as families in need who have vulnerable family members and much more, together reaching hundreds of households each week in Cardiff and the surrounding areas. We are grateful for every single crate, every loaf of bread, every bag of salad, every croissant! Each item represents our opportunity and hope that in sharing, maybe, just maybe one person that day will have a reason to hope. That they would know they are not alone, and that they too would have a hope for the future. Throughout the week: Free food available to the community from Al-Ikhlas Mosque, Cardiff, where individuals and families come together and help themselves to whatever they need in a warm and friendly environment. Deliver food parcels to the breakfast club in Splott as well as a the Star centre. Also providing vital food supplies to those in need in the Ely area of Cardiff via the Dusty Forge and St Vincent's Church. Providing food to support parents at cookery classes and the breakfast club at Cathays High School, supporting families in need. Supporting individuals and families in need in the deprived inner city areas of Cardiff (Splott, Adamsdown and Tremorfa) by delivering directly to the Mosques to support their food markets as well as individual families. Saturday: Fortnightly free food markets running in Llanishen. Supported by Llanishen Baptist church and Llanishen Catholic Church. Providing essential food support for pensioners in Llanbradach, Rhondda Cynon Taff. Free food open to the community from both Al Manar and Mosque Omar where people come together and help themselves to whatever they need.

We are a community foodshare that also offers store cupboard essentials at discounted prices Based in a ground floor shop in Tredegar town.FREE bakery/fruit and vegetables etc kindly donated from shops/stores. Brick a brac clothes/toys/household items etc are for sale for a nominal fee which is then spent paying rent/electric/ topping up our food supplies

SWAN UK (syndromes without a name) is the only dedicated support network available for families of children and young adults with undiagnosed genetic conditions in the UK. It is run by the charity Genetic Alliance UK. It is estimated that around 6,000 disabled children are born every year with a genetic condition likely to remain undiagnosed. Without a diagnosis families have no idea what the future will hold for their child. Will they walk? Will they talk? How long are they likely to live? Families struggle to have their needs taken seriously and access the services and support that they vitally need. Many feel extremely isolated and alone. SWAN UK supports families in hospital and at home offering 24/7 access to support and information. We run regular events to bring families together and provide opportunities to make precious memories. We support siblings to make new friends who understand how difficult having an undiagnosed brother or sister can be. We educate professionals about the issues faced by families affected by a syndrome without a name to help families receive high-quality coordinated care and appropriate testing or treatment. Our Big Ambition is that all families who have a child affected by a syndrome without a name get the support they need, when they need it. We know there are so many families out there who still need our support, which is why we are aiming to double our membership and help families feel less isolated and alone.