Sainsbury's Winchmore Hill

Bounds Green Food Bank was established in June 2020 as a resource for those in need in our community. As members of the neighbourhood, our volunteers reflect the wide range of backgrounds and beliefs of those living in our part of North London. We are united in the vision that everyone in our community should have access to food. We set our own guidelines on how people can access the food on offer. This independence enables us to give guests the products they particularly need; which includes allowing a choice from what’s available including fresh produce, store cupboard essentials and cleaning products. Vision We envisage a community in which everyone has access to food and other essentials. Mission Our commitment is to share food across our community and improve lives by providing food and essential household items to build a healthy, hunger-free tomorrow. We aim to: • Promote social inclusion by supporting people who find themselves in a crisis situation where they need assistance to feed themselves and their families. • Provide first tier support and advice where needed, so that people can access available welfare entitlements and other support services. • Create opportunities for both guests and volunteers to broaden their skills and experiences so that we as a community develop and grow.

The Community Outreach Team is based in Edmonton, North London. We reach over 1800 families from 4 schools. Our families’ experience financial hardship this can also impact other areas of their lives including their health. To alleviate some of these pressure on our families we provide support around, health and wellbeing, pathways to employment, supporting your child with their learning as well as volunteering opportunities. 2020 has posed additional pressure and restrictions on our families, making basic living standards difficult to maintain. As a team we have adapted to support those in need by establishing a food and clothing bank, provided reading books and games for children, signposted parents to local soup kitchen and provided cooked meals during the school holidays as well as food drops to those families self-isolating. We believe Equity means that each child receives what they need to develop to their full academic and social potential. The work our team carries out tries to reduce some of the pressure placed on families and bring smiles to faces. We are asking for donation for our families of Food (fresh and dried), toiletries, cleaning products, clothing, baby items, books and games and educational resources such as pencil cases, calculators. We are happy to collect items from within the 5 mile radius of Edmonton.

Our organisation base all Borough in England for homelessness, Disabilities, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Domestic violence, Youth and Adult in needs. We provide accommodation for homelessness through our Outreach workers and through Borough Councils. We provides our clients food as-well as daily needs through assessments and key work meeting by allocating support worker/ project worker as the person to speak with and support them at all time. Our Organisation provides everything needed for their day to day of their recovery including benefits and housing needs. There is Housing benefits for individual when qualify for accommodations under our organisation which staff will apply for, to pay direct to Landlord. We do collect both food and household goods from Aldi, M&S and Lidl. I would advice to search for St Mungos organisation for more details of what we do in our communities Best Wishes Grace Olatunji. Locum Project Worker Haringey Hope Horizon St Mungos organisation 530-532 West Green Road, London N15 3DU TEL: 02088882116 Email: grace.Olatunji@mungos.org Neighbourly We are running a 'cookery course', a 'tea and toast drop-in', and a 'lunch club' for our service users. Food donations will be used to support these services.