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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

Kinship Carers Cooking Club (KCCC) is a new community project aimed at providing practical, emotional and peer support to kinship carers and the children they look after. A kinship carer is anyone who cares full time and long term for a child who is not their biological child, but who they have a meaningful family connection with; for example a grandchild, nieces and nephews, but also godchildren or children of family friends. Usually a court order will be in place to state that that child should live permanently with the kinship carer. Sometimes kinship carers are referred to as Special Guardians, or “connected carers”. These arrangements tend to be made when children cannot safely live with their parents because of drugs and alcohol issues, mental illness, domestic violence or child abuse and neglect. By stepping in to look after these children, kinship carers save local authorities hundreds of thousands of pounds every year, as alternatively the same children would need to be placed in foster care or externally adopted, at great cost to the tax payer. There are an estimated 200,000 kinship carers in the UK, however the actual number is likely to be much higher. There are approximately 250 official carers in the Southwark area alone. Kinship carers face a number of challenges once they take on their caring role, as do the children they look after. Sadly, the national trend is for kinship carers to receive a very poor service from local authorities once an order is made. Many feel completely abandoned by services; in some cases this can result in situations breaking down and children coming back into the care system. KCCC delivers fresh ingredients and recipes to kinship families every week and facilitates online group cooking sessions on Zoom on the same day. The focus of the sessions is on cooking and sharing healthy, tasty and budget friendly food that reflects the cultural richness of the kinship care community. Whilst the carers are able to meet other carers and give and receive peer support, the children are engaged in structured cooking activities and spend time with other children who are not “living with mum and dad”. KCCC currently supports 60 people across Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Wandsworth.

Pathwaze provides Supported Accommodation to vulnerable men aged 18+ across South London. Since our inception in February 2016, we have successfully worked with many organisations such as Local Authorities, St Mungos, P2P, New Horizons, Community Links, Big Issue Foundation, Home Office and the National Probation Service. We diligently work towards our mission with the aim to transform lives and empower vulnerable men, helping them to re-engage and become effective members of the community. We work in partnership with our service users to encourage and assist the choices they make by empowering them to find the right path for their lives. We provide accommodation and support to men aged 18+ dealing with a range of issues including_ street homelessness, mental health, drugs and alcohol, bereavement, educational and employment support. Food Surplus will be given to our Service Users free of charge from our offices and delivered to those unable to get to our office. We work with Liberty Church delivering our Winter Out Reach Program providing food and blankets to the public . We collaborate with ISBC and Brixton Soup Kitchen helping us to provide much-needed support to our Service Users. Our Support Service is funded by private donations and grants.