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Living Hope seeks to love our local neighbour. We do this through a variety of means and are busy throughout the week. - Our Saved! Surplus Food Project helps to reduce good food from going into landfill and make it accessible to people in our local community, who will be really helped by it. It is distributed throughout the week, but we particularly encourage people to come on Friday mornings when we generally have a lot of food. We support approx 120 people per week through Saved! We also provide grocery bags to those in need and also have a partnership with our local COOK shop who give us frozen ready meals to distribute each week. We host our local Trusell Trust foodbank and regularly refer to them. - We love to create space for connection, reducing the negative impacts of loneliness. We run a weekly Coffee Morning for those in retirement, a monthly community meal called Hope Supper and a weekly social drop in for all ages, Mondays 3.15-5.30pm, board games, table tennis, lego, crafts and active games, a knitting and crochet group, tea, coffee and lots of cake. - We run weekly English lessons for refugees and those needing to learn English as a second language. - In addition we do seasonal clothing collections for refugees or local homeless people. A winter clothing rail where people can give or take clothing. We are doing our first summer clothing rail this summer. We do hampers for families and individuals at Christmas. We have worked in partnership with Epping Forest Foodbank, VAEF and support other local charities as we can. All our Living Hope services are offered free, although donations are appreciated. Hope Supper does have a recommended donation, but people are always welcome if they aren't able to donate. We frequently meet people in need and try to help them as we are able. We do not have a formal referral process, however, we seek to help people as we get to know them, and as we become aware of needs. People often come to us through word of mouth. We are also contacted by local social prescribers and other professionals. Our church cafe, Cafe Hope is open 9.15-2.45 Monday - Friday, and all are welcome to come in for a cuppa! It is a place of friendship and hope for many people of all ages often people who would be lonely otherwise. Often people come and stay for the day, we have a community that people are welcome to come to and be part of, a place of belonging. Our play area is very popular for carers with young children.

We are an extension of Liverpool Zero Waste Community CIC - starting in Redbridge, IG6. We have the same aims - saving surplus food from landfill while building community. We will be redistributing surplus food from local venues such as our local children's centre. What premises does your project operate from? - We deliver to local families straight from pick ups. - Hainault Children’s Centre. - Registered with Redbridge EHO. · How do you identify service users and their needs? - We are about normalising using surplus food in order to remove any potential stigma that may come with attending a food bank or a food pantry. - Young parents attending the children’s centre can access our food. · Are there any other services provided by your organisation other than food support? - Not yet but this is something we are looking into, especially with our links to the children’s centre. · Is there a charge for the service(s) provided by your organisation? - No. · Do you currently collect surplus food from any other retailers? - Co Op (Caboodle) - Tesco and Waitrose (Fareshare) - ad hoc Sodexo Live. · Has there been local press or similar that demonstrates your organisation's work in the local community? - Not yet. · Would it be possible to provide photographs of work that your organisation does in the local community? These are on our fb page: Zero Waste - Redbridge · Have you partnered with other local good causes or council members who may be able to provide a reference? If you would like to provide a reference from a local organisation, if you could ask them to email us at food@neighbourly.com as soon as possible, that would be great. - Not yet. · Please include up to date social media links wherever possible. - Zero Waste - Redbridge