Sainsbury's East Ham

The E6-Sisters Community Pantry, located in the London Borough of Newham, is committed to fostering sustainability and empowerment within our community. We provide residents with weekly access to a pantry where they can choose their preferred food items, rather than receiving predetermined offerings. This empowers households, especially during crises, helping them regain control over their lives. Our pantry serves as a sanctuary, fostering a sense of stability and community ownership. By addressing food insecurity, we believe we can accelerate recovery, enabling residents to explore new opportunities. Our ethos promotes the transition from receiving help to thriving, bridging the gap between taking what is given and selecting what is needed. This approach minimizes waste and encourages fair sharing, ensuring that everyone has access to what they truly need.

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and brand new clothing to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://www.looprun-sciv.online/

St Johns Community Centre was established in 1968. it is a voluntary sector organisation firmly rooted in the local community. Our Centre is home to many intercultural and inter-generational groups. We promote diversity by bringing together people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We also support those who endeavour to make the Royal Docks area a stronger, healthier and happier place to live for all with a focus on the environment and improving biodiversity. St Johns Community Centre runs a number of services to support the entire community from toddlers up to our senior community members in their 90's. Food Hub We run a FoodHub 4 days per week supporting over 125 families weekly with food parcels, which is an essential service helping families to cope amidst the cost-of-living-crisis. St Johns Community Centre provides essential wrap around services at the foodbank including benefit advice and mental health support in partnership with Newham Talking Therapies. Well-being services St Johns Community Centre is a wellbeing hub offering a safe space to the community aiming to improve social connections, encourage engagement, increase resilience, improve mental and emotional health and reduce loneliness and isolation. St Johns Community Centre runs friendships groups for over 50's, Line dancing, a walking group, c, a women Wellbeing art group and a mens mental health support group. All groups are requested to pay £2 donation. St Johns Community Centres wellbeing gardening group look after and maintained a number of green spaces in the local community and regenerate green spaces that have been neglected and abandoned, increases more access to green spaces in the community. St Johns Community Centre also hosts a number of events and party's through the year for the community to bring people together and celebrate our rich and diverse community.