Sainsbury's Chester Faulkner St Local

The Venture provides a wide range of services primarily to children, young people and their families but also to the wider community of Caia Park in Wrexham. Starting in 1978 as an adventure playground, as a means of tackling some of the highest levels of juvenile crime in Wales, the Venture has gradually expanded its services in the realisation that juvenile crime was mainly a symptom of a much wider malaise. The Venture was adopted in 2004 by the Welsh Government (W.G.) as its model for its new flagship programme of Integrated Children’s Centres across Wales, in recognition of the importance of joining up vital children’s services and doing it at the heart of communities. Open Access Play was one of those components and the self-built, award winning adventure playground remains at the heart of the Venture today - physically, professionally and ethically. The Early Years Centre includes the WG’s Flying Start programme as the other core service around which many other services revolve. The VAL programme is aimed at 14–16 year olds struggling to maintain their place at school and avoid being NEET. Literacy programmes with parents have also until recently been run with extraordinary success. Health and welfare advice services are also based at the Venture. We also support a wide range of community organisations and run many large community events.

We founded The Cupboard Network in order to help prevent food waste in the community. We are horrified at how much perfectly good food goes to waste due to widely inaccurate use by/best before dates. We found ourselves with a lot of surplus food after collecting and distributing from various organisations, and thought we would offer it out into the community via our "community cupboard". We've quickly had to expand due to such a fantastic response from the community and we've been able to provide lots of food parcels to vulnerable people, whilst also tackling the war on waste! The cupboard is open to everyone, regardless of background or income as our main focus will always be to reduce the amount of food that goes to waste. We do ask for a small donation where possible if you come to collect from us; as little as £1 here and there helps us to continue to offer this service. We opened The Table Community Café in March 2023, providing free hot and cold meals and refreshments at our full table service café. We operate a food bank session every Wednesday and Citizen’s Advice are on hand for queries. If you've got any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! Keep fighting this war on waste with us! We appreciate you ❤

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise called Glass Mill Social Enterprise C.I.C. This is more than food and is part of a platform called RSBA1 (Response, Sustain, Build, Achieve). A free supportive services platform to help people get back on their feet. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the happy stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and clothing to people facing a challenge. Whatever you can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. As everything given and everybody counts. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun food donations can include fresh fruit, vegetables, bakery items and non perishables. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with your food donations. Therefore we need your help to ensure we can supply the demand in this crisis. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. We, therefore, are a platform for a voice to be heard in the community and share life changing stories. It would be great to have more partners become part of these stories in your local community. Looprun has also expanded into providing toiletries and brand new items of clothing. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: www.loopruninstore.org