Sainsbury's Emersons Green

Lyde green Community Association operates a Community Centre, and provides events and activities for the benefit and development of the local community. We are a Community Centre. Lyde Green Community Centre, Thistle Close, Lyde Green Bristol Surplus food is placed in a 'Communal Food Shelf' for community members to help themselves to. Local service providers (such as Sirona midwives and health visitors also refer to us). Bristol After Stroke Group and other charities that operate from our Centre also refer to us. We run events and activities to support the community. 10% of tickets to all our events are given to those in financial need - these can either be self referred or referred by our local service providers detailed above. There are charges for some events but as detailed above these can be accessed free of charge by community members in need. We have volunteers who collect from Olio as we no longer are food collectors for Neighbourly as our local Sainsburys no longer use this method of distribution. We run a monthly column in Emersons Green Voice detailing our work. Emersons Green Town Council shares our work on their social media. social media links :https://www.facebook.com/LydeGreenCC and https://www.facebook.com/lydegreencommunityassociation

We are BS15 CIC has been running since 2021. Our first project, The Kingswood Kitchen opened in June 2021, with three other projects following within 18 months; The Trinity Food Garden, The Beacon Cafe Hanham and The Kingswood Food Club. The Kingswood Kitchen now serves an average of 80-100 hot meals every Thursday. It runs on a pay-as-you-can model and is open to any household local to BS15. The Food Club redistributes food surplus to support 40-50 households each week with affordable food. Households pay a £2 annual membership and £3 for a bag of shopping worth £15-£20 at supermarket prices. The Beacon Cafe is (open Wednesday to Saturday) thriving and now hosts a dementia cafe, social group for deaf people and other informal groups. It uses a 'Pay-as-You-Can' model. Our organisational aims are to reduce food inequality and social isolation in the area while also reducing food waste.

Kingsmeadow @ Made Forever is a vibrant community wellbeing hub. A registered charity (no 1148905), for over 15 years we have worked with isolated, vulnerable, and disadvantaged families and individuals of all ages, gender, and ethnicity across our community. Our focus is to work with our beneficiaries to help them move forward, to nurture and support them to take control of their lives and maintain that positive journey. Originally working in a small flat on the Kingsmeadow Estate, in March 2018 we were presented with the opportunity to take over the Made Forever youth centre building in Fisher Road. With help from community members, the building was transformed into a fantastic community wellbeing hub in the heart of Kingswood. The hub is now a focal point for the area, providing a variety of wellbeing activities and support services available to all members of community. Alongside a daily programme of wellbeing activities, we run a community garden, refurbishment & recycling workshop, community cafe, food & essential items bank, charity shop and a crisis prevention & personalised support service where people can seek help with the challenges they face. The outdoor sports court, green space, counselling spaces, lounge, indoor sports hall, climbing wall, bouldering room & meeting rooms are used to full capacity to offer a wide range of support techniques. We provide an emotional support platform, where people are able to express emotions confidentially and freely, supported by our trained and experienced staff. We work with people to help them understand and deal with their thoughts and emotions, providing continual encouragement, motivation and mentoring. Practical support sits alongside emotional support. We provide active help and advocacy in areas such as housing, health/wellbeing, welfare, debt, budgeting, managing money, benefits and completing forms. We also provide hot meals and food parcels. Donations of longlife food such as tinned soup and vegetables, dried pasta and rice, tinned meat and fish, teabags, UHT milk, biscuits and cereals, as well as fresh, are in particular high demand at this time. We provide emergency warm clothing and blankets, essential hygiene kits (including shampoo, shower gel, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, toilet roll, menstrual products, hand sanitiser), household products (including washing up liquid, washing powder) and baby care packs including nappies, nappy rash cream, baby wipes, soap and shampoo). We accept donations of food, clothing, household products and items, gardening equipment, arts and crafts materials. All monetary donations go directly towards our wellbeing activities and services for the individuals and families we support. We are enormously grateful for all donations we receive. All gifts have a tremendous impact on our community’s wellbeing, and enable us to continue to provide support and services directly to those in need. Thank you.