ALDI FAVERSHAM

A community association providing facilities and services for the benefit people of faversham, and the wider east kent area. Our community association runs three community centres across East Kent our aims our: · Increasing Engagement in Sports & Physical Activities. · Reducing Loneliness & Isolation in the Elderly Population. · Giving People Means to Gain Employment. · Giving Positive Opportunities for Young People in the community. · Faversham Pride and Building Community Cohesion We run various support services that involve the use of food including a community cafe, food bank, a youth club that provides cooking classes and a free meal for the young people and we provide refreshments for the older people who come along to the centre for social clubs .

We are a small, rural primary school near Canterbury. We believe in the importance of teaching chilcdren life skills, and cooking is an important part of our curriculum. Due to budget constraints, we are limited in what we can teach the children to cook, and how many children can take part. We grow our own vegetables to cook with, but would like to be able to have access to a wider variety of ingredients so we can teach the children even more! Update- we now distribute more and more food parcels to families who are struggling financially for a variety of reasons. We work together with Aldi, Lidl and M&S and try to combat food insecurity for the children in our care and the wider community around our school.

The Bus Shelter Kent Project offers hot meals and food parcels to the less fortunate including families and finds accommodation for the homeless people of Sittingbourne.