Lidl Cross Hands Llandeilo Rd

Foothold Cymru emerged from a community development initiative founded nearly 30 years ago, since when we have evolved into a community anchor organisation that promotes and supports grassroots action and social justice. As a community anchor organisation, our interests and areas of activity are broad-based, underpinned by a long history of facilitating sustainable community activism through raising awareness and supporting grassroots action. We work with individuals, communities and business to deliver meaningful projects that harness their strengths and contribute to a sustainable future. We operate across West Wales.

Based in the heart of Tumble and operated by Llannon Community Council, we have refurbished some unused rooms in the pavillion to offer a warm, safe place. We wish to stop good food going to waste and encourage goods to be reused or recycled. Y Cwtsh will provide a Community Pantry; Warm Space; Advice clinics & support; Book Share; School Uniform Shop and Christmas Toy Shop. We will provide opportunities for local people to volunteer.

Llwynhendy Surplus Food Project is run by a local community group, The Llwynhendy and Pemberton Forum. We work with all members of our community from children through to the elderly. The Forum is run completely by volunteers from all walks of life, from disabled adults to local councillors. Llwynhendy is one of the most deprived areas of Wales and has over 600 social housing in the community. Many people rely on benefits and struggle to make ends meet. Often benefits get sanctioned and many families are left with no money to support or feed they're families. We work with the local police, local authority and family centre to help support the most vulnerable people in our community. We identify where the surplus food is needed in our community and distribute it accordingly. Aswell as distributing food to the needy we also run a free lunch club for children during the School Holidays. During term time a large number of children in our area receive free school meals. When the school holidays arrive the children do not have access to free school meals and the families benefits don't increase to help pay for the extra food. This proves a real problem for families and causes child food poverty. This is a real concern for our group and we do our utmost to provide nutritional meals and drinks during the holidays. Due to lack of funding we can only provide this service for 2 days a week during the holidays. With extra support and funding we hope to add extra days to our project. Our group also provides many volunteering opportunities and we often encourage the community to help out. We also arrange training by working with Communities First to deliver necessary training and skills. We have recently completed food hygiene, emergency food aid, defibrillator use, basic IT, Minibus course etc