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Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and brand new clothing to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://www.looprun-sciv.online/

- Education/training - Children/young people - Provides services Based in Peckham, South East London, we are an after-school music training hub. Salem was established in 2004 to make instrument music training accessible and affordable to young people (YP), especially but not exclusively, to those from disadvantaged, underprivileged, and underrepresented. We also provide a haven for YP to interact, socialise, discuss different social topics, and have a healthy meal. We give planned mental health training with professional practitioners. Classical, Jazz, and Praise music are purposely chosen as our repertoire, as they are particularly effective in lowering stress and anxiety levels in YP. As YP play and listen to these genres of music over the years, it helps them become more focussed and therefore more productive. Through our regular ABRSM exams, we help our learners build points towards entrance into grammar and boarding schools. Our intermediate and higher grades exams help build UCAS points towards university placements. Over 97% of our learners end up going to university. Some of our past learners have played with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Chineke Orchestra. Some have studied music at universities and now have full-time careers in music. We start our trainees from as young as seven years old and many stay with us until they leave for university. Some return after university to either help out voluntarily, or continue their own personal development. We collect surplus food donations from various outlets. Some are cooked on-site and given as meals to our pupils/learners, parents, teachers, volunteers, and the local community. Others are taken home by the same groups of people. Volunteers do all our food collections, cooking, feeding, and distribution. We do not charge for food consumed on the premises or taken away. No foods are resold.

I have been working in the community for about 13-14 years now in various capacities; writing and delivering programmes, mentoring as well as education consultation. Since the turn of the year, I have been community with hostel managers, youth practitioners, staff members, key workers and owner and director to some of the buildings, HMO's and various other premises about how the cost of living as effected a lot of young people living in these hostel and units. Subsequently, I decided to go around to several food banks and any organisation within the community that can provide food to young people in hostels. Aftet collecting as much food as I could. I packed as many rate and oxes equally and then began to deliver the community those in need. I started of by j delivering to about 5-7 young people now the database as grown to about 30-40 request each week. As a result, I was advised by my local authorities to go and set up a charity as I now deliver to not just young people hostels but (mother and bay units, ex-offenders, substance abuse an d anyone that cannot travel due to various reasons or disabilities) . Surprisingly, our database grows each week resulted in meeting with the trusties to the charity to ensure that all tmwe are doing is official. know what as made what we plan to continue to do so successful so far is the fact that I am able to deliver to food parcel to the people that cant travel for whatever reasons or people with disabilities. I also collect reduce food products from supermarkets and superstores 3-4 nights a week and share them between two hostels each night throughout the week. We will be apply for small charity grants in the future from some local authorities and other organisation that fund small charity just for support on thing like hopefully a larger storage, things that are in demand that are not donated to us such as (nappies and pampers), toiletries a bigger freezer and (electric and fuel). I have recieved such a positive feedback from managers, staffs, social workers key workers and owner and directors about the services and providing being able to bring the food parcels to individuals and to each hostels, mother and baby units, hmo's, ex-offenders hostels, substance abuse premises and to anyone in the community that made a request that cannot travel due to various reasons or disabilities, hence why the demand is growing each week. I know our charity as the right intention to continue serve the community and I think the services we provide the young people, and adults in these various settings is very much need by the feedback and the rapidly growing database of people requested food parcels deliveries. Our charity are dedicated to achieving our aims and objective to serve the community and wider community because we believe "we are the people we are help". We are simply playing our part building a better and stronger community spirit. Instagram "@369foundation2024 Thank you Kind Regards