Sainsbury's High Road Ilford Local

Southall Lions meet the needs of local communities and the world every day because they share a core belief - to serve their community. Together, our Foundation and Lions are helping communities with delivering needs such as food, water and clothing.

ICSS is a small, grassroots, 100% volunteer-run registered charity operating since 2004. We are a passionate group of volunteers helping children from vulnerable groups, such as refugees and children affected by domestic violence in East London, achieve their full potential through education, and in time, they can understand the value of giving back to society. We also operate a food bank serving referred families, providing food and other essentials.

May 2026 Update: We at Eden Soup Kitchen continue to use the same premises which is based at: Eden Church Centre, Connaught Rd, Ilford , Essex. Our Services Users come through local organisations: Namely, Highway Vineyard Church centre, The Welcome Centre and Eden Church centre. There appears to be an increase in the number of SU’s due to cost of living crisis. We distribute the surplus products/foodstuffs that we collect from Lidl’s and Aldi to these organisations. This is free of cost and we work on a voluntary basis. Our Service Users are those in need of food, personal hygiene and household products that are difficult to fund from their limited financial resources. Some SU’s are homeless, have physical disabilities, families, are aged and isolated, English may not be their first language and through our distribution support are able to plug shortfalls in their daily lives. We continue to run our Senior Moments sessions whereby our SU have a meal, good social interactions with peers, visits by professionals who inform them of various rights, and outings to places of interest. Our impact appears to much needed and well received by our organisations and SU’s. We are both retired women and we support ourselves in this voluntary endeavour. At present and previously we have not sought media coverage, yet our work is very much required in our local area. We will continue to distribute the surplus that we receive for the foreseeable future. May 2025 Update: Our vision and emphasis on supporting our local community through collecting surplus. The communities in our vicinity remain the same. In the current economic climate we have seen an increase in the need for our services. We continue to operate from Eden Christian Church, Connaught Rd, Ilford, Essex. We tend to identify our services users through the organisations that we interact with. We work alongside Highway Vineyard Church London E12, Welcome Project, Ilford Essex and Eden Church, Ilford. The service users are people within the local community who mainly need food support for them and their families. The number of families with employed parents are reaching out to the centers that we liaise with to help enable them to assist their family needs. We also help support the homeless to sustain them during their unfortunate circumstances by supplying our collected produce surpluses from our designated stores. We help run a ‘Elderly Senior Moments’ club once a week at our home base, whereby we have a generous number of over 60s attend. They have a hot meal, are able to socialize and we engage local services such as health workers, self-protection awareness workers and organisations that help to inform senior citizens of their well-being. Our voluntary services are very much required and we endeavor to continue to collect and distribute for the foreseeable future.