Sainsbury's Lewisham Brockley Stn Local

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

- General charitable purposes - Education/training - The prevention or relief of poverty - Religious activities - Other charitable purposes - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - People of a particular ethnic or racial origin - The general public/mankind - Makes grants to individuals - Makes grants to organisations - Provides buildings/facilities/open space - Provides advocacy/advice/information

The cost of living crisis is affecting so many families and if there’s ever a time our local communities need the support of the churches and other organisations it is now. We understand the needs and is responding to this. To this effect, we’ve started a food bank program once per month (with the aim to do this more frequent in the future) for the local community of New Cross and Brockley in the London Borough of Lewisham and the neighboring communities. We will be doing this by collecting surplus food from local stores and supermarkets weekly (perishable) and then on the 2nd Saturday in the month we will be doing a food drive working with the LA, the local communities etc to distribute this. We will also be collecting non-perishable food but these will be closer to the food drive date. We have allocated as area to store the food at the House of Bread in cupboards in a separate room. We will also be providing a hot breakfast on the day of the food drive. We have a team of volunteers from the House of Bread who will help to support this initiative, supporting families and children on low or no income. The food collection will be done by the team who will use their cars. We have the heart for people and the difficulties many families faced today touches us to the core. Our work with Neighbourly is a key part to be able to support local people helping to relieve the difficulties many are facing today.