Sainsbury's Holywood Exchange

The advancement of education, the advancement of citizenship or community development, the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. Food Donations will be distributed straight into our local communities FREE to families and individuals who are in need. We take food from the store and straight to our collection points. Food is not stored overnight but given straight to those in need.

Hope Harbour is a group of volunteers who help Belfast's Homeless in any way we can with your help and support we aim to give them Hope for a better future. We volunteer on a weekly basis cooking hot meals, and gathering donated clothing, toiletries, tents, sleeping bags and other things that those less fortunate, many of whom are living on the streets, need the most to survive in these extremely hard times. The organisation is run by Carla who deals with all aspects of the running of HH and there are other volunteers including myself Stewart, who takes charge of the food and meals. Terence - Clothing and other items. Mel & Audrey also contribute to food and toiletries and pet foods. Brendan who organises our outreach van and distributes to those guys/girls on the street with no hostel or shelter on any evenings.

At East Belfast Mission we are here to change lives. Our doors are open to anyone in need. We offer services which aim to alleviate the difficulties faced by our community through projects such as our Hosford Homelessness services and 26 bed homeless Hostel, our Employability project which helps people back to work, our Irish Language project to connect a divided community and of course our thriving church community which offers community groups, counselling and pastoral care to those who need it. Our primary project supported through Neighbourly is our East Belfast Mission, Community Fridge. Address: EBM Community Fridge, In the community garden 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 1AF Anyone in our community is welcome to self refer to our community fridge and there will be no means testing or checks. Our community fridge is also utilised by our other service users and by individuals who are referred to us by other local and partner community organisations. There is no charge for accessing any of our services, those who are able/would like to are welcome to make a £3 donation for using the fridge. Images showing our work in action can be found on our social media pages: https://www.instagram.com/eastbelfastmission/?hl=en More info about the launch of our community fridge as announced in local press can also be found here: https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/funding-allows-east-belfast-mission-26558442 References from other community organisations testifying to our work in the community can be provided at any time! Please just email lianne.mulholland@ebm.org.uk