ALDI BIRMINGHAM - ERDINGTON

We work in Erdington and provide support to the local and wider community. We help families in need of help with food, clothing and skills required to go back into paid employment. We also provide short term support for families when they are in temporary accommodation. We offer supportive services for families with children who have additional needs or any other complex issues in the family home.

We are a group of all volunteers set up in May 2021. We seek to help individuals and families within North Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield area who are experiencing financial hardship and as a consequence are suffering from food poverty. We will actively work collaboratively with others to use and then redistribute surplus food to aim to ensure that no food goes to waste. We will provide a food bank to provide ambient and fresh food parcels to local communities.

We are now feeding over 1000 people per month many struggling to buy food. This in turn stops many from shop lifting and helps those who desperately need help. We operate on a referral basis from various agencies including the Council, Police, Homestart, Housing Associations, Job Centre, local churches and local Community Groups. Our clients are usually homeless, jobless, elderly, infirm, low income workers and those in temporary financial difficulties. We supply our clients with a good variety of food which also includes frozen and fresh food. We have now moved to B6 7QA about 5 mins away. We were on GMTV plus central TV Gmtv have been to our foodbank twice and seen the work we are doing win helping to provide food parcels to those in need. We are also on facebook bethany community foodbank