Women-Accede (Hull)
Hull, UK
We are a small charitable group devoted to supporting older adults to achieve better health and wellbeing through befriending, socialising and ongoing weekly drop in whereby small exercises, drinks and hot meals are offered free of charge. We support older adults in other ways such as organising trips and walks. With the support of Neighbourly, our work with older adults is producing better outcomes through our capacity to collect and distribute surplus food to vulnerable people in the community. We have a team of volunteers who distribute food to older adults who are house bound and this is tied to our befriending agenda. Since becoming involved in surplus food collection, our Drop in has become a weekly event during which food items are also distributed. Our team of volunteers are able to pick up and drop off members on our Drop in days. This has led to a boost in the attendance. We have continued to improve the way we support older people with food security and in seeking out better ways of packaging and transporting surplus food when collected. We have invested in temperature controlled chilled packaging solutions and are very grateful to 'Icertech' for their support in this area. Women-Accede has gained reputation as 'A Friend of Older People' because we are now in a position to reach more people due to an increase in the number of our volunteers and our weekly Drop in sessions. We work in partnership with other community groups and projects such as Hull Food Partnership, Lonsdale Community Centre, Wavelength (Tackling loneliness with technologies), BAME Environmental Network (BAMMEN), Cooperation Hull and Humber All Nations Alliance. We have a history of partnership working and had successfully worked with Age UK and Hull Afro-Caribbean Association to support older adults in overcoming hinderances to active and healthy lifestyles. Our activities are currently run from the premises of Lonsdale Community Centre, Lonsdale Street Hull. Our client group is multi-ethnic; in addition, daily users of Lonsdale Centre have also become our beneficiaries including those who become aware of our project through our outreach work in the local community and places of worship. We have been well represented at the various partnership meetings organised by the Council, The Forum, Carers Information Service and in particular, those to do with Adult Social Care. This helps us to continue to seek for new ways of working collaboratively to improve the wellbeing of our older adults through better care services, delivery and research. We are interested in food growing and allotment work and would require support in this area. We are optimistic about using our surplus food collection project to promote the link between good food and positive mental health. As a group, all of our surplus donations are free of charge.
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