ALDI LUDLOW

Incorporating Hereford Homeless Support & the Living Room. Things are a little different at Ethos we are different, we are grass roots organisation that has developed organically responding to the needs of the community. All of our work focuses on an asset based approach, we don’t see labels and problems we see people going through tough times who need to still feel human connection and that they have a place in the world with space to reconnect through human relationships not as a service user who needs to complete numerous personal information forms just to be seen. Helping people to navigate their way through disadvantage and hardship from whatever means by providing timely but brief additional support to help prevent issues such as homelessness, poverty related issues such as poor physical health, mental health, isolation and loneliness which all pose a huge strain on our society. We do this through a range of offers The Living Room inc - Community Larder and food parcels Community Space with training Community Café Hereford Homeless Support we support homeless people in our community, this is done through being part of the food providers network in Hereford as we provide a hot meal to homeless people, items like tents and sleeping bags, clothing a shower facility and washing facility for homeless people. we also help support access to grants to help people into housing. We also work with people at risk of homelessness or experiencing poverty and disadvantage by providing advice and guidance, access to debt advice and grant assistance along with food parcels and access to our community larder. Our community larder works on a donation basis that when people can afford to its suggested £5 donation, this helps with the our collection costs with fuel and volunteers and also our subscription to partner organisations buying in food weekly. Food donated through Neighbourly is never charged for, donations given go towards buying in food from Fareshare weekly.

Our vision is for a happy, hospitable, compassionate and just community which helps people help themselves, and our mission is to provide a more effective community process for achieving this vision. We do this by working in partnership with other local charities and social enterprises and creating a network of volunteers. We work with agencies, charitable organisations, local businesses and churches, to identify and provide relief for local people in need We strive to develop local and sustainable solutions to problems such as social isolation, often using food to develop events and activities to help build community cohesion and reduce social isolation.

Leominster Food Bank works to relieve and prevent poverty by offering food parcels, distributing surplus food at our food Share, supporting people with emergency fuel top ups, offering a money mentoring service and signposting to other support organisations. We campaign for the end of food and fuel poverty in the UK. We operate from The Old Priory, next to the Priory Church in Leominster. People needing emergency food parcels can either get a referral from an organisation supporting them or come and see our referrals team. Anyone can attend our food shares to receive free surplus food - it's about reducing food waste as well as helping people access free fresh food.