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With the levels of unemployment, along with the number of low-paid employees living in Brent, many residents find themselves at a crisis point. They are unable to feed their families and provide for life’s basic needs. There may, however, be many other challenges within the family, which may contribute to the family crisis. It is bearing this in mind that the Centre of Help and Hope was conceived. The Centre provides the following services: Food bank Clothing hub Befriending service Gardening services Counselling services Light domestic help Vocational skills Intentional parenting courses

While thousands of Londoners go hungry each day, safe, healthy and usable food is being disposed of as waste. City Harvest collects this nutritious surplus food from all segments of the food industry including restaurants, grocers, manufacturers, wholesalers, hotels and caterers. WHO DO WE DELIVER TO? We help vulnerable people throughout London. City Harvest regularly delivers high quality, nourishing food to organisations that provide meals to vulnerable people including homeless shelters, soup kitchens, centres for veterans, and organisations that assist people with alcohol or drug addictions. WHAT IMPACT DO WE MAKE? We rescue almost two tons of food weekly. This food helps organisations serve thousands of healthy meals each week and reduce their annual grocer bills, freeing up funds that can be reinvested in other vital support services. Some of the food we rescue is diverted from going to landfill where it would release gases toxic to the environment. HOW DO FOOD DONORS BENEFIT? We rescue food in a safe, easy, reliable way. We make it simple for food donors to get their nutritious food to desperate people and reduce their waste collection costs. Customers prefer to patronise sustainable restaurants and employees experience a huge morale boost from giving to those in need. Food donors appear daily on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds. The Sustainable Restaurant Association encourages food donations to City Harvest. With one new van we'll be able to deliver 135 tons of food in one year. This translates to 270,000 meals to people in need.

Millions of people in the UK struggle to feed themselves and are malnourished. This isn't a food shortage problem. There is enough food for everyone in our system - it just doesn't reach all the people who need it. The Felix Project provides the link between food suppliers with surplus food and charities feeding vulnerable people. What does The Felix Project do? 1.5 million adults and 400,000 children face hunger in London – almost 2 million people London may need as many as 127 million meals a year following COVID, to feed all those going hungry. Meanwhile, 10 million tonnes of edible food is wasted in the UK every year. There is enough food for everyone in our system - it just doesn't reach all the people who need it. Established in 2016 by Justin Byam Shaw, The Felix Project is London’s largest food redistribution charity. Our practical solution of alleviating food poverty by preventing food waste inspires donors, partners, suppliers and volunteers.   We rescue food that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste. This food is in-date, nutritious, and includes a high proportion of fresh fruit, vegetables, baked goods, salads, meat and fish. Food is donated by wholesalers, retailers, farms, restaurants and delivered to frontline charities, primary schools and holiday programmes, feeding London’s most disadvantaged people.   Your support ensures we can keep feeding vulnerable people throughout London – not just now but also to meet the longer-term socio-economic impact of this crisis on millions of people throughout our capital city. Our sole source of funding is from fundraising. Every £10 donated to The Felix Project delivers enough food for 61 meals. Every donation made is multiplied 10x in terms of the value of the food we distribute, which represents a remarkable impact. To quote one of our donors, The Felix Project gives ‘the biggest bang for the buck’ when he compares what we are able to do with our income to other charities he analyses. It sounds too good to be true, but it isn’t! We can achieve this because nearly all the food we redistribute is donated free of charge by the food industry - it is surplus and would otherwise probably go to waste – and because we have a volunteer workforce driving our vans and working shifts in our depots, also completely free of charge. We couldn't do this without the generous donations from our supporters. We are grateful to all who are a part of The Felix Family, helping us deliver more food to more good causes.