Sainsbury's Winterstoke Rd

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.

We aim to reduce the amount of food thrown away by shops. We collect surplus food from shops and deliver the food to local projects. There are a lot of organisations in Bristol, run mainly by volunteers, who offer meal and food bank services. We pick up at pre-arranged times and deliver the items to projects who have requested the supply of surplus food. After we deliver the surplus food items, volunteers at the local projects prepare and serve them to people who are going through or recovering from issues such as hunger, homelessness, social isolation, drug or alcohol abuse, and mental health conditions.

South Bristol Family Hub supports families across a range of universal and targeted groups and interventions. This happens within Family Hubs, outreach venues and in family homes. Practitioners work with families to: - Improve outcomes for children and families, supporting those in greatest need to make positive, sustained changes in their lives. - Identify and address food poverty and holiday hunger, ensuring children's nutritional needs are met - promote good parental wellbeing, increase parental confidence and self-esteem and increase parenting capacity - Promote financial stability, addressing debt and accessing relevant benefits - promote positive relationships, utilising evidenced based parenting programmes and acting as a role model. - Enable parents to use constructive methods to reduce parental conflict to improve family life - support parents experiencing domestic abuse, providing support and promoting safety for children - support families to address substance misuse, disability and complex health needs to identify relevant support and enable families to access specific support. We would be very grateful for donations of surplus food from local businesses to enable us to provide snacks/food to parents and children, within our groups and programmes. It will also enable us to provide food to families in crisis, who are experiencing food poverty. Our service operates across five sites within Hartcliffe, Bishopsworth, Stockwood and Bedminster as well as utilising other community/outreach spaces