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Southampton Social Aid Group (SSAG) is a co-operative created for the benefit of the people of Southampton. Our Food Club is run by and for the benefit of our community. What is the Food Club? For a weekly fee of £3.50 or £5 one member of a household can become a member of our Food Club. Each member can choose 10 items of shopping a week from our available selection of food and household goods. Items vary week to week and include fresh fruit and vegetables, store cupboard essentials, toiletries and household items. Please note we do not stock refrigerated or frozen items. Following consultation with our Food Club members we have agreed to also offer an option of £5 for 15 items. Ideal for those with larger households. We have three hubs from which The Food Club runs every: Monday between 11:30am and 1.30pm. Woolston & District Trades & Labour Club, 25 Leighton Road, Woolston, SO19 2FS. Tuesday between 11:30am and 1:30pm. Unity Brewing Co Taproom 23-27 Princes Street, Northam, Southampton, SO14 5 5RP. Thursdays, between 11:30am and 1:30pm. Stephen’s Dance Centre, Oakley Road, Shirley, SO16 4LG. For more information on this venue you can visit their website at www.boardinthecity.co.uk How do I join? You can sign up now to become a member of the Food Club. Join straight away using our online form, or download our membership form which you can fill out and email back to us at sotonsocialaidgroup@yahoo.com, or print and bring to us when the Food Club is open. Join here: southamptonsocialaidgroup.co.uk We also Solidarity Membership to those who don't need service but would like to support via a monthly contribution while having a say in the Co-operative. Solidarity Membership: https://opencollective.com/sotonsocialaid A co-operative is a members owned structure all of whom have voting rights in how the service is run. All members can be involved in the running of the cooperative. SSAG will be shaped by its members and our aim is to be responsive to the needs of our members and the community. SSAG aims to be able to offer a range of services to the community. Our first service is our Food Club. We hope to build on this service according to the changing needs of the community. SSAG is based on the principles of solidarity not charity, participation not just consultation.

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/

New Forest Aquaponics cic regenerative culture hub. We aim to help the understanding of connections with all parts of modern life, and our biosphere. At our core is Aquaponics - the farming of fish and edible plants, as well as growing all types of food. To grow food we need good soil, and good people working together. Good people need food, somewhere to meet and grow the food, and to feel valued. We aim to set up a community owned farm in the New Forest. . We are keen to hear from anyone who could help us provide this resource for the Waterside area of the New Forest. I Some of our active projects, please let us know if you would like to get involved - help is always appreciated The Waterside Food Project - Feed people, Feed animals, compost. We firmly believe that no one should ever go hungry, no food should ever be wasted, and no food should ever go to landfill or incineration. We work with smaller groups across the Waterside, providing resources to make sure they can get access to supermarket excess food, by collecting the food and recognising who can make best use of what's been collected. The groups we work with provide support for low income families and provide emergency food parcels, or cook for the homeless. Food that cannot be eaten, but can feed animals, goes to animal groups, and anything that is left after the people and animals are fed is composted, the compost will be used to help teach food growing. Ecobricks UK - Teaches communities all about plastic, how and why we are in such a mess with it, providing methods of tracking plastic transition and how we can measure our positive impacts on our biosphere. This is done via workshops, online and in person. Support is offered as to how the ecobricks can be used to bring benefit to the community whilst sequestering the plastic out of the biosphere. Waterside Clothes Swaps - We all need clothing, and with the cost of living increasing buying clothes, even from charity shops ,can be out of reach for some. Combine that with the damage the textile industry is doing to our world, helping with both issues is super important, we do this via waterside clothes swaps. We are in need of support - could you donate towards our hall hire costs, or donate clothes rails or even clothes? The Virtually Real Forest - our project to create deep connections between children and trees. Again working with Blackwell Bushcraft we run workshops on trees and their importance to our biosphere. Each child is able to take a tree home to grow in a pot becoming a guardian of that tree. The tree is registered with The Virtually Real Forest, its journey can be followed, and support in caring for the tree can be given to the guardian of the tree. The aim of the scheme is to create more understanding of trees, and how they grow. More details are on the blog section of our website. We are looking for funding to provide the workshops to community groups and schools.