ALDI MILTON KEYNES - WESTCROFT RETAIL PARK

To help add positive value in the community through brilliant community integration, cohesion and great service delivery commitment, enabling equality of opportunity regardless of their sex, race, ethnic origin, disability, religion or belief​ OBJECTIVES: To help the financially inactive people within the community with unsold food from Retail organizations - Tesco, Waitrose, Greggs, Aldi, Lidl , ASDA and McDonald's To help enhance the chances of the " Not In Education Employment or Training" get back to work by organising trainings, seminars and workshops To develop good relationships with other similar groups within the wider community in order to achieve same goals quicker and more efficiently To operate a supportive and sustainable social enterprise To improve skills and build confidence within the community through sports and good healthy living

Jo’s Hope mission is to provide ‘light, inspiration and hope’. We are unlike any other organisation in terms of our remit and practise. We supply Post-Surgery Bras to breast cancer patients Yoga classes for all cancer patients and their companions Musical Theatre sessions for disadvantaged youths Music Lessons for disadvantaged youths Mentor Scheme Parent Advocacy Restart Programme: rehabilitating offender programme Food For All Scheme: Provides low income, Mid income, Disabled, Elderly and people suffering from or affected by illness access to good quality food at a fraction of price. Mama Jo’s Kitchen: Sell west Indian food and the profits go towards providing the homeless with a hot meal. All our programmes are delivered free of charge and fuss. We aim to help and support as many people as possible without the major intrusion of private life and non-judgementally. Did you know you can only access a food bank 6 times in one 12 month period. What are these families supposed to do for the other 46 weeks of the year. Additionally, you need to be referred. When you are suffering from sickness these referrals are not always open to you. We need a regular income from companies, we need food/ product donations and support with events, we welcome investors. We welcome questions, we welcome meetings. We keep our running costs low to maximise output to the community. We have been piloting the above within Milton Keynes and so far we have had a lot of positive feedback. Examining breast cancer within the Milton Keynes breast care remit there are a number of crucial provisions not available to those diagnosed due to funding cutbacks. They are as follows: - a) Breast Cancer patients requiring surgery, you will not be provided with the 'Crucial' post surgery bra required to help wounds heal. b) Limited supply of Psychological Assistance needed for cancer patients, and none that are known to me at present for the families of non bereaved members. c) There are NO none medical therapeutic provisions available to cancer patients that don’t involve a waiting list of up to 6 months. Cancer affects many people in many ways. My aim is to give someone who has been diagnosed with cancer or has suffered from cancer one ounce of his or her pre cancer self back. For clarity I need to define what I mean by the following; Pre Cancer Self: Everyone acted normal around you. You received a text message once a week from family and friends if you were lucky. Work colleagues expected you to be able to move heaven and earth in a day. No one cared if you needed a cup of tea or coffee and travel insurance was £19.99 for an annual subscription. Post Cancer Self: Bandanas and head wraps are your new best friends (because you lost all your hair through the horrid chemo). Family and friends you had forgotten about call and ask how you are, so much so that taking a nap and leaving the phone on silent can prompt a love one to call the police, ambulance and fire brigade to

Sharing is Caring is a food service that serves students nationwide with the intention to expand internationally. The program’s focus is to identify area needs for food requirement amongst students first and utilise resources to satisfy those needs in order to eliminate hunger in our student community. We operate within the Welfare Office at our partnering universities so as to limit abuse of the service. Students are encouraged to volunteer in every aspect of the food service as voluntary work experience is highly recognised and preferred by many employers in varying sectors. It is deep sadness that we have identified a large community of students who do not eat on an average day to day basis simply because they cannot afford to. It is our intention to operate a warehouse facility at every university and college in the United Kingdom where we will store donated or rescued food for distribution to students. The program actively solicits food from retailers, wholesalers, and processors. In addition, we plan to collect food donations from restaurants for immediate distribution to service programs. It is estimated that the number of students who need services from us will increase during the next five years as the cost of living increases. Though there are a number of food banks available countrywide, there is that element of embarrassment that a student has to overcome to approach them. It is with this in mind that we are providing a more specific service solely for students. It is within our plan to have a smart phone application that allows students to indicate their need and desire for food. Sharing is Caring is therefore an important resource because we can respond quickly with the one of the most important resources these students need. Food! Our services help to improve the wellbeing and welfare of students and assist greatly in achieving goals that have been set. We know that our service is a small investment with regards to the influence hunger has on our health, however, it must be implemented as the cost of ignoring the problem regarding student hunger could possibly be detrimental in the long run especially in the face of rising university costs without added incentives. We all know that “hungry” should never be a pronoun for “student”, however; today sub-standardisation of this matter is a reality for some.