Sainsbury's Leytonstone Church Lane Local

Who We Are: KindWellCom is dedicated to nurturing health and well-being, fostering social inclusion, and bringing people together through compassionate, community-led initiatives. Our Mission: To create safe, supportive spaces where individuals can connect, build resilience, and access holistic wellness resources—because kindness and well-being belong to everyone. 🤝 Join the Movement: Whether you're seeking support, food, looking to volunteer, or wanting to partner with us, welcome to our community family! 📍 Based in the UK | Working together for kindness and wellbeing in the community. A healthier, kinder tomorrow. What we need: Food Donations: surplus food and donations to run weekly Food Share program, serving over 700 people weekly. Cans, meat, fresh produce, fruit, and vegetables are especially needed. Volunteers: people to collect surplus food from local suppliers to help set up, sort donations, and serve during their Sunday events. Community Sharing: spreading the word helps reach more vulnerable families, sharing skills by volunteering in projects supporting families and helping to fundraise or secure extra resources during high-need periods.

We are a Community Centre based in Walthamstow that runs projects focusing on a community response to social and environmental issues. On Mondays, we run a Solidarity Supermarket where people can buy around £25 worth of groceries for £4.50. On Tuesdays, we run a free community kitchen where we cook surplus food and invite people to enjoy a free meal. Through our partners The Gleners, a Community Living Room runs every Thursday, plus their How To Cook A Feast course for migrants in the local area. On Fridays, we have a Wellbeing Cafe for people experiencing social isolation. We also redistribute food to local community fridges, food cooperatives, food banks and housebound individuals through our food hub and redistribution network. We have a network of volunteers who collect surplus food on their bikes from local shops and businesses, and are looking to expand this and engage with more local businesses to collect and redistribute their surplus food. When it comes to food waste management, we collaborate with local allotments that take our uncooked food. Just recently, we have launched our Green Hub For Waltham Forest, bringing together local groups involved in sustainability and responding to the climate emergecy.

The Leytonstone Community Fridge is a Transition Leytonstone project, working in partnership with The Community Fridge Network. We are working to reduce food waste at a local level by collecting food donations from charities, food businesses and individuals, making the food available to the public without discrimination, The Fridge, which is situated outside the Leytonstone Methodist Church, is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 12 noon until the food runs out. It gets very busy, especially during the first half hour, and is manned entirely by volunteers. We need a steady stream of new stall volunteers and driver volunteers, as people do have other things in their lives! That said, we are a happy community of food waste warriors, who love nothing better than saving food from landfill and composting. A very recent 3-monthly audit shows that we saved two and a half tonnes from landfill between February and April 2019. We are currently fundraising for solar panels to power our 2nd backup fridge and a freezer in our food storage garage.