Getir Sydenham

REHOBOTH COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLUB located 1-18 Allwood Close, Sydenham SE26 4JP is a charity and it has been entered onto the Register of Charities with the Registered Charity Number 1168822. Rehoboth Community Outreach club started reaching out to vulnerable families in 2013, offering befriending, parenting & life skills training. Over time the services evolved expanding to offer mentoring to young people, employment skills training and a food bank. In March 2014 Rehoboth started receiving requests for support with addressing the increasing issue of food poverty amongst the single homeless living in hostels and the local street homeless, this saw the launch of the Community Lunch Club. Initially the lunch club was feeding 20 people every Monday with a 2 course hot meal. But this number quickly grew to 150 people a week when Rehoboth partnered with Miriam Lodge providing meals to their most vulnerable homeless residents. The partnership has expanded and Rehoboth community outreach club “The Lunch Club” now deliver 200 meals every Monday across 2 hostels. In addition, we have some homeless people living locally in the community who walk-in and collect their meals. The feeding programme also provides a soup social, with home cooked vegetable and chicken soup with rolls to the residents in the hostels on a Friday. The generosity of our local donors business and others in neighbouring community, with financial donations from the church membership and individuals, make it possible to provide our services free to vulnerable individuals and families. The community outreach service is facilitated by a team of 25 volunteers who cook, serve food, clean, deliver the meals, and provide the befriending, mentoring and training activities. Rehoboth hopes to double its feeding programme to 300 meals a week by the end of 2018; to support at least 50 homeless people to capacity build their employment and life skills, enhancing their potential of accessing employment, education and training opportunities. The Rehoboth Community Outreach Club aims are to contribute to breaking the generational cycle of poverty and deprivation within families, inspire hope & healing in the heart and soul of vulnerable individuals and communities and encourage peace, unity and respect across generations. We seek and appreciate further financial, time and resource donations that enable us to meet our vision of UK communities free from food poverty and benefiting from sustained upward social and economic mobility for everyone. A donation of £2.50 provides one hot meal; £10 provides 4 hot meals. For further information please contact. REHOBOTH COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLUB Bank: Barclay's Sort code: 20-57-76 A/c no: 03050181 @RehobothCharity Email: Rehobothcommunityoutreachclub@rcoc.org.uk Paula Walker-Litchmore Founder Rehoboth Community Outreach Club 07946 354617

The principal objectives of the charity is the advancement of the christian faith worldwide and relief of poverty To be able to achieve these objectives we have set up 6 projects. They cater for the children, the elderly, the homeless, people suffering from addiction, low income families and mental health. Our centre which is open 6days a week feed about 200 people weekly. Our food bank opens every Sunday and has been of tremendous assistance to families struggling with their finances for the past seven years. We partner with all organizations that share the same objectives as us.

Dinner time club is a community initiative setup to ensure no child goes to bed hungry. The pandemic has left many families struggling to make ends meet and many families are left with the touch crisis of struggling to feed their children. Dinner time club aims to ensure children have a hot nutritious meal every night. We will be providing families with a hot nutritious meal, complete with a healthy snack and dessert and drink. We will be working with the local borough and schools in the area to ensure we meet those in need of the service. To help the families we will also be running a food bank service, working with local businesses to provide food for families to take away and cook themselves. Our trained and qualified chefs will be working to produce simple low cost recipes that can be made at home. Our overall aim is to find a property where we can continue the dinner time club service but also be able to run cooking classes for children, be a centralised hub where families can come and pick up food. We also want to provide a safe space where children can come and sit and eat their provided meals, a place to promote friendship and social well being. During the pandemic we helped prepare and make over 7000 meals to deliver to vulnerable children and families in need. The pandemic has heightened the need for our service, many families have lost jobs and are now really struggling to make ends meet. The sad reality is that unfortunately many children are only having their school lunch as a meal for the day. The pandemic saw a big country effort to ensure children were fed during school closure, however now schools are open we want to make sure that effort is continued, we also want to make sure our provision supports children during the impending 6 week summer holiday. We want to empower the families we help through our cooking school and classes and easy Low cost recipes to help them be able to make meals at home. We are a team of cooks and a school teacher living and working in the borough of lewisham, our cooks provided over 7000 meals during the pandemic and being a teacher I have witnessed first hand the impact of child hunger and child poverty. Hungry children affect their ability to learn, working in a school in a very deprived area I am aware of the high number children affected in the borough. We have spoken to many food businesses in the area who are keen and happy to come together to tackle this issue.