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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

We are a non- Profit organisation and our purpose is to provide accommodation and services for vulnerable people who cannot meet their housing needs through the market, because of their incomes or other barriers associated with age, homelessness, disability or health. Our supported housing services combine accommodation with support. They are designed to meet the needs of particular groups, such as people with mental health issues, learning or physical disabilities, addiction issues, people at risk of domestic violence, teenage parents or ex-offenders. Our wider vision is to seek to support the livelihoods of our customers and the communities they live in. This is reflected in our branding where we remain committed to our long-standing strapline: Transforming lives, revitalising neighbourhoods. Our core values are we care, we are inclusive and we are trusted. Our scheme is designed to help people acquire the emotional and practical skills needed to move on into more mainstream housing. The support we give to people depends on their needs. It can include: - Access to treatment services for alcohol, drug or health problems. - Help with getting benefits. - Developing independent living skills, such as budgeting and cooking. - Increasing physical and mental wellbeing, including the ability to cope in a crisis. - Encouragement to reconnect with family and friends, or develop new social networks. - Assistance in taking up education, training and employment opportunities. We provide support services for customers in our scheme to manage their recovery from substance misuse and addiction. Core to the delivery of our great services, is the development of our psychologically informed environments and services, This approach: - Increases positive behaviour by increasing self-worth, esteem, belief and hope. - Reducing challenging or aggressive conduct. - Ensures customers stay in our support longer by reducing abandonments and evictions. - Achieves the most positive outcome for each person as they identify their own goal or ambition, and direct how they would like to use our support in order to achieve that outcome. - At the project, among the services we provide, we support the homeless customers to acquire life skills before they move into independent living; those life skills among others include cooking. At the moment we are lacking food items to provide that service. The food donation will help us achieve that support need. When our customers are able to cook for them selves, this will stop them from going on the streets to beg for food and cause anti-social. - Furthermore, the cooking sessions help the customers come together and socialise; this stops them from being socially isolated. Social isolation worsens their mental health issues. The food donation will help us minimise such issues.

Bromley borough foodbank provides 3 days of emergency food and toiletry support to those who have been referred to us by one of our referral partners. We operate across the borough and have 4 centres with a minimum of at least 1 being open Monday - Friday. We ensure that all those who use our service have access to maximise income support advice and we work closely with our referral partners to help address the underlying issues which have caused our assistance to be needed. Our food is obtained by donations from churches, individuals; school harvests, gifts and supermarket collection points.