M&S The Maltings Northgate

We are a community wellbeing group in Newark who are committed to supporting families and serving our local community. Due to the increasing cost of living more and more families are experiencing food poverty which we are passionate about eliminating in our local community. We have a surplus food social supermarket supporting our low income and free school meals school families daily from Monday - Friday between 7am-9am and for the local community we open on a Saturday from 6.pm. We also operate throughout the school holidays on Saturday 6pm and on Thursday mornings from 10am - this will be advertised on the group Facebook page. We accept referrals from social care, children's centre's, the Healthy Families Team and the Newark Salvation Army. Our project operates from a self contained cabin at the back of the school carpark and is run by a team of volunteers overseen by the charity Trustee's. We collect surplus food that would otherwise be going to waste from local supermarkets throughout the day and in the evenings and store this in the cabin in large catering fridges and freezers to go out the following morning. Any remaining perishable food products go out to the school community at the end of the school day reducing food waste and allowing children and families to benefit from fresh produce. We also operate a Christmas meal project, last Christmas we provided food hampers to 150 local families who were in need of support to enable them to provide their family with a Christmas dinner. Our scheme is providing a valuable and essential service to reduce food waste and eliminate food poverty, it also provides volunteering opportunities.

Local group of Involved Tenants working with Newark & Sherwood District Council With the aim of improving Local Services & improving the lifes of people in the Local Communities We are a not-for-profit Community Group and we set up a sub group called Newark Food & Well-being Hub We currently work with Newark & Sherwood District Council to run a weekly food club on a Thursday at Beaumont walk 1 till 3 working together to reduce food waste. We are hoping to provide emergency food parcels alongside these There will be NO CHARGE for Emergency Parcels. will also use this to top up the boxes , which will be made up the from neighbourly Food or product collections. items will be placed on a seperate table for people to help there selfs to. We are also provide a Hygien bank . We are also working to set up a community garden on winthorpe road we have a face book page and are in the process of planning the garden we work supporting coffee mornings through-out the district look who popped in for afternoon refreshments we gave away Jubliee sarnies scones cakes crisps biscuits and 43 food boxes and i think we might have gained a new doggy helper bless him pics uploaded

To provide refuge accommodation with associated support services, information and advocacy to women and children who are living with or have experienced domestic abuse. aftercare and resettlement to women who have left the refuge. outreach support to women and children living in the newark & sherwood area. awareness raising information to agencies and individuals.