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Lumi Place CIC is a company based in New Ferry Wirral that is dedicated to helping the community. We are actively involved in fighting food, hygiene, and period poverty. We are operating from own shop premises located in New Ferry Precinct, where we providing FREE OF CHARGE all surplus we do have available. With our efforts, we aim to make a positive impact and improve the lives of those in need. Lumi Place CIC is committed to providing support, resources, and assistance to individuals and families facing these challenges. Through our initiatives, we are strive to create a more inclusive and equitable society for everyone in the community. We serve community by providing food surplus (when available) to every member of public, we also delivering any surplus and hygiene products to homeless shelters like Rosebrae and The Bridge in Birkenhead. We also provide help to local Primary School where we redistributing food surplus, children hygiene products and feminine hygiene products. Our little sister department PePo Bank who fight period poverty supplying any feminine hygiene products to local companies and offices to help woman in need or poverty go through their difficult days. We are proud that within our community we have all spectrum of users. Our youngest users are just tern 18 and they struggling with finance wellbeing so we can provide for them food, household items, clothes , hygiene products and much more. The oldest user of ours is 96 years old and she depending on our food donations. Other elderly members are 70 - 90 years old and they using us for getting food surplus, help in little house repairs and also in what is most important company, so their can talk to someone. We also proudly helping to Ukrainian War refugees living in our community. Lumi Place is helping Community of New Ferry to get back to the state like before 2017 when huge gas explosion put this place and its community in depravation state.

I am an Early Childhood Family Support Worker and am employed as part of the Local Authority Children's Services. I work with families as part of the Early Help Team to try and support with difficulties before they reach a point where they need escalating into social care. The area I work in has a high level of unemployment and poverty. As part of my role I support with addressing debt, hunger and social and emotional issues but primarily, my role is to safeguard children from the effects of poverty and ensure they get the opportunity of good quality care and experience community based groups and have access to early education. Being a part of a Food Share Project means that families can be offered produce that would otherwise get thrown away and be the difference for some families of having regular nutritious meals and going hungry. Many of these families have had to resort to using the foodbank as they cannot always manage to get enough money together for the essential items. Unfortunately, foodbanks do not provide much by way of fresh produce, e.g. fruit and veg but provide essential items in times of crisis but Food Share has the opportunity to ensure families are able to have nutritious foods as well as the basics in times of emergency. Families often need access to non-food goods such as; white good, beds and bedding, clothing and toys. These items are invaluable for families who have had to move away from the family home because of extreme violence and have to leave everything behind or their home has been destroyed by fire and they do not have the finances or insurance to replace their home items. Because low income is prevalent in the local area, I am hoping that the items received from the Food Share Scheme will enable me to offer the families and other people in the local community the opportunity to collect food items to create meals for their families which will help to alleviate some of the financial strain many of the families face.

Serving the people of Birkenhead and the Wirral since 1892, we provide hot food, clothing, toiletries, other basic essentials, along with much love, care and compassion. We treat people with dignity and kindness. Monday to Friday we are a drop in centre for the homeless and needy. We provide food, clothing, blankets, toiletries, pots and pans and everything plus the kitchen sink. If you need it, we will do our best to get it. We have shower facilities on site that are available for use during our opening hours, weekly medical help from the GP, nurse, drug service, one a month a podiatrist and optician. We are also here if you need advice with applications, accommodation or finance or just someone to talk to.