Sainsbury's Tower Hamlets Bromley by Bow Stn 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/

Community Food Enterprise Limited (CFE) is an award winning social enterprise food business which is rooted in East London and was founded in 2002 by members of the community. Our mission is to work in partnership with the diverse communities of London, and nationally with those of similar needs, to safeguard and sustain the right of our community in all its diversity to access the right food at an affordable price as a fundamental condition for individual and community health and well-being. CFE is looking to put in a bid to Power to Change for a project titled Collective Purchasing Initiative (CPI). Collective Purchasing Initiative – Sustaining England’s Community Food Projects (CFPs) aims to bring Community Food Projects (CFP) throughout England together as a collective, and use our combined buying power to purchase fresh fruit & vegetables in bulk direct from Farmers and Farmer cooperatives. CFE carried out a pilot project in London between March 2014 and January 2015, although it was highly successful we could not continue as our funding had ended. We are looking to roll out the CPI across South East England and have new partners on board.

Each year we support almost 24,000 older people, their carers, family and friends in East London. In the community we provide information, advice and advocacy on housing issues, debt and benefits. We also run popular social groups and match older people who would like a bit more company with volunteers who would like to spend time with them. We help older people in hospitals and their homes to recover and maintain their independence, and give essential advice and advocacy that helps people out of pensioner poverty. The cost-of-living crisis is leaving more and more older people isolated. Your donation will make a big difference today, to making sure they can stay connected and access services and places that they care about https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ageukeastlondon