Sainsbury's Chadwell Heath

- General charitable purposes - Education/training - The advancement of health or saving of lives - The prevention or relief of poverty - Overseas aid/famine relief - Religious activities - Arts/culture/heritage/science - Environment/conservation/heritage - Economic/community development/employment - Other charitable purposes - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - People of a particular ethnic or racial origin - Other charities or voluntary bodies - Other defined groups - The general public/mankind - Makes grants to organisations - Provides buildings/facilities/open space - Provides services - Other charitable activities What premises does your project operate from? St Barnabas Church, Woodford How do you identify service users and their needs? Members of the church congregation and the wider local community are able to access our food to help alleviate food poverty and save surplus food waste. Are there any other services provided by your organisation other than food support? The church provides many other services. Spare Loaf focuses on food support. Is there a charge for the service(s) provided by your organisation? No Do you currently collect surplus food from any other retailers? Tesco, Booker 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? Photos updated on Neighbourly page and on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Have you partnered with other local good causes or council members who may be able to provide a reference? Not yet

May 2026 Update: We at Eden Soup Kitchen continue to use the same premises which is based at: Eden Church Centre, Connaught Rd, Ilford , Essex. Our Services Users come through local organisations: Namely, Highway Vineyard Church centre, The Welcome Centre and Eden Church centre. There appears to be an increase in the number of SU’s due to cost of living crisis. We distribute the surplus products/foodstuffs that we collect from Lidl’s and Aldi to these organisations. This is free of cost and we work on a voluntary basis. Our Service Users are those in need of food, personal hygiene and household products that are difficult to fund from their limited financial resources. Some SU’s are homeless, have physical disabilities, families, are aged and isolated, English may not be their first language and through our distribution support are able to plug shortfalls in their daily lives. We continue to run our Senior Moments sessions whereby our SU have a meal, good social interactions with peers, visits by professionals who inform them of various rights, and outings to places of interest. Our impact appears to much needed and well received by our organisations and SU’s. We are both retired women and we support ourselves in this voluntary endeavour. At present and previously we have not sought media coverage, yet our work is very much required in our local area. We will continue to distribute the surplus that we receive for the foreseeable future. May 2025 Update: Our vision and emphasis on supporting our local community through collecting surplus. The communities in our vicinity remain the same. In the current economic climate we have seen an increase in the need for our services. We continue to operate from Eden Christian Church, Connaught Rd, Ilford, Essex. We tend to identify our services users through the organisations that we interact with. We work alongside Highway Vineyard Church London E12, Welcome Project, Ilford Essex and Eden Church, Ilford. The service users are people within the local community who mainly need food support for them and their families. The number of families with employed parents are reaching out to the centers that we liaise with to help enable them to assist their family needs. We also help support the homeless to sustain them during their unfortunate circumstances by supplying our collected produce surpluses from our designated stores. We help run a ‘Elderly Senior Moments’ club once a week at our home base, whereby we have a generous number of over 60s attend. They have a hot meal, are able to socialize and we engage local services such as health workers, self-protection awareness workers and organisations that help to inform senior citizens of their well-being. Our voluntary services are very much required and we endeavor to continue to collect and distribute for the foreseeable future.

- General charitable purposes - Education/training - Disability - Arts/culture/heritage/science - Amateur sport - Human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity - Recreation - Children/young people - People with disabilities - Provides services