Sainsbury's Elephant and Castle

HQ: 40 New Kent Road, London, SE1 6TJ, United Kingdom

This is how Sainsbury's is investing in local communities. A verified record of community support, tracked on Neighbourly.

What Sainsbury's has delivered.

The positive impact Sainsbury's has helped to create in communities.

All-time totals

People supported weekly

The number of people indirectly helped each week by the good causes Sainsbury's has supported

2,549,130

Good causes supported

5

CO2e saved (tonnes)

25

Non-food donated (tonnes)

0.03

Meals donated

16,119

How it works

Here's how businesses create local impact through Neighbourly.

Through Neighbourly, Sainsbury's has donated surplus food and products, turning business resources into meaningful community impact.

  1. 1

    A business gives

    Through Neighbourly, businesses donate resources to local good causes.

  2. 2

    A local good cause puts it to use

    Support goes directly to charities and community organisations, helping them free up time and resources to focus on what matters most.

  3. 3

    People get the support they need

    Whether it's a hot meal, essential products, a safe place to meet or someone to talk to, support reaches people in ways that make a real difference.

  4. 4

    Every contribution counts

    Together, these contributions create real, measurable impact in local communities. That's social value in action.

Causes connected to Sainsbury's Elephant and Castle

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Looprun London

London, UK

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/

What we've received

Meals1,041,584
Non-food (tonnes)9.50
Money£750

The Canteens Project

London, UK

The Canteen's Project brings people together over a hot meal, cooked from repurposed food powered by volunteers. Come and help us create a delicious meal every Monday (Elephant & Castle), Wednesday (Clapham) or Friday (Tooting Broadway) for people at risk of and affected by food insecurity and social isolation! Our canteens are open for anyone to come and enjoy a warm, nutritious meal. We ask for a suggested donation of £1 per meal. We offer fuel vouchers for guests who find themselves in fuel crisis on prepayment metres.

What we've received

Meals60,896
Non-food (tonnes)0.31
Money£6,750

Brixton Soup Kitchen

London, UK

Brixton Soup Kitchen is a community space for homeless people or people in desperate need. The Soup Kitchen provides food, drink and companionship in a warm and friendly environment on a weekly basis. About Us... We have served over 345,000 meals either eaten on site or distributed during food drop offs and outreach sessions. This could not have been possible without the donations and support from local community members as well as local businesses. We organise for trained professionals to deliver one to one consultation sessions with our clients, helping to re-house people, assisting people to claim benefits they rightfully deserve as well as back to work training. Brixton Soup Kitchen is for the homeless and other members of the community who fall below the poverty line. Since starting the Brixton Soup Kitchen, we have received food donations from Pret A Manager, Greggs, Nandos, Satay Brixton, Marks and Spencer. We now work with Iceland, Waitrose, Sainsburys depots. We have had media support from The Voice Newspaper, Channel 4 and The South London Press who awarded us with the 'Our Hero's Award' in April 2013. The word about the good work at Brixton Soup Kitchen has been spreading and we welcome approximately 45 visitors per day, 5 days a week. We engage with over 30 homeless people every day from in and around London. Moving Forward... Our soup kitchen is now is working towards becoming a recognised support centre for the community as a whole. We hope to add more facilities to the already popular centre including job searching support, advice on housing and benefits and a night shelter for those in dire need. However in order to achieve this, a lot of support will be needed. We still need to do more, and your support will help us reach out to more homeless people with information and food packs that will provide a week's worth of food at a time. In particular, we need help funding a van so that we can pick up more food.

What we've received

Meals118,974
Non-food (tonnes)0.41
Volunteering (hours)517
Money£1,250

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