Sainsbury's Tooting Bec Local

Centrepoint services include: A warm, safe room for young people every night • Specialist psychotherapy, counselling and healthy living support • Accredited education programmes and one-to-one tutoring • Life-skills courses such as cooking and budgeting • Career development opportunities, employability programmes and access to work experience and training We are incredibly proud that 88% of the young people that we support move on with a positive outcome. - Education/training - Accommodation/housing - young people - Provides support -

ln August 2007, ECE recieved a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of 300,000 members of the IYF (International Youth Fellowship) for our contribution to the UK branch. In September 2008, Esther Community Enterprise was awarded certificates from the Lord Mayor of Croydon, for having carried out 100 hours of volunteering activities. On the 2 June 2011, ECE was awarded with theQueens Award for Voluntary Service, MBE. This is the highest award given to voluntary groups in the United Kingdom, and as such, is equivalent in status to the MBE. This prestigious UK National Honour recognises outstanding voluntary contributions and sets the national benchmark for excellence in volunteering, with the work of those awarded being judged to be of the highest standard. We aim to meet those who have needs in the local community by redistribution of food and other consumables donated from retailers. ECE makes a worthwhile collective response to the 3 tenets of sustainable development, namely social, economical and environmental needs. ECE forms a consortium with other charities, faith groups, projects and organisations. We have over 70 Project Co-ordinators. They manage and help to distribute the food/groceries and clothing items within the local communities across the UK, on behalf of ECE. We have sustained our social enterprise through the goodwill and hard work of over 400 drivers and countless volunteers, who contribute their time, transportation and finance to this worthy cause. Near sell by date food is collected on a daily basis from a range of supermarkets and other retailers and diverted to those that need it most ECE feeds in excess of 40,000 people per week and this is steadily on the increase as we expand across the UK

The Canteen's Project brings people together over a hot meal, cooked from repurposed food powered by volunteers. Come and help us create a delicious meal every Monday (Elephant & Castle), Wednesday (Clapham) or Friday (Tooting Broadway) for people at risk of and affected by food insecurity and social isolation! Our canteens are open for anyone to come and enjoy a warm, nutritious meal. We ask for a suggested donation of £1 per meal. We offer fuel vouchers for guests who find themselves in fuel crisis on prepayment metres.