Sainsbury's Elephant and Castle

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/

Our original community space, Pembroke House, was founded in 1885 by students from Pembroke College Cambridge. They took up residence in Walworth, to live, work and connect with locals, gaining insight into the inequalities and deprivation that affected (and still affects) the area. Over time Pembroke House's community offer and building developed to become home to a wide range of activities, including a weekly lunch club, a Dance Programme and the Pembroke Academy of Music. Our second site, the Walworth Living Room, situated 5 minutes walk away, opened in 2019 as a more experimental community space. It houses a Community Cafe, an ever-evolving social activity schedule and a Community Fridge; the ultimate goal being to create a safe space where residents can feel a sense of trust, ownership and belonging. Together with residents, voluntary groups and local organisations, we're trying to build a Walworth in which people can connect, learn from one another, and work together towards a more equal society - and food will play a vital role in this. The Community Fridge & Cafe will provide opportunities for locals to create new friendships, give, take and share food, and feel a part of something bigger than themselves.

We are a crisis support service offering wrap-around services including debt advice, welfare benefit advice, housing and immigration support, business advice, holiday and after school provision, women's groups, a food bank and a social supermarket. We provide translation services to ensure our charity guests feel understood and supported.