Sainsbury's Great Portland St Local

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/

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The team at Old Diorama Arts Centre are currently compiling our second annual creation festival for artists with experience of homelessness, now renamed One Roof. In January 2023, ODAC welcomed over 200 visitors to the One Festival of Homeless Arts, to enjoy a range of artistic workshops; including wire sculpting, mudlarking, mask making, and more. We received great feedback from attendees of that festival, some calling it ‘a wonderful holiday’ and promising to return for the next one. We’re holding them to that, and hope to see as many repeat visitors as possible, along with - fingers crossed! - plenty of new faces as well. We are programming one jam-packed week of workshops and classes, plus an open studio space for a second week for artists to spend time on their independent work. We’re hoping to expand the range of the workshops available, and to promote sales of any newly created work the artists wish to sell, with all proceeds going directly to them. In addition to enjoying a week or more of outstanding creative company, we are zeroing in on what we can learn during One Roof 2024. The dedicated arts and homelessness team at ODAC are looking forward to discussions with festival attendees regarding sessions that they might like to attend on a regular basis. Our ideal situation would be to establish a year-round programme of diverse art workshops, co-created with One Roof attendees, incorporating dance, wellness, live arts, music and storytelling, alongside the visual art that put the festival on the map. So we're currently trying to gather volunteers, food donations, and anything going that might be useful to a collective of genre-spanning artists with experience of homelessness. We try to provide a hot lunch each day for all attendees, and would love to be able to offer something for breakfast, plus snacks throughout the afternoon. Over 200 people attended our last festival, so it's a high bar to be able to accommodate and provide for everyone.