Sainsbury's Hornchurch Elm Park Avenue Local

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

We are an independent non-funded non-profit charity who run two outreaches a week, one in Charing Cross and the other in Grays. Due to being a non funded charity we rely solely on donations and every donation we receive makes a huge impact on someone's life. We can see between 150 to 200 people/families per week and seeing more families than ever at our Grays community outreach. We offer a hot home cooked meal, hot and cold drinks, adult and children's clothing, toiletries, bread, cakes, fruit, veg and a food bank bag containing non perishable foods We started our journey in December 2016 and became a registered charity in May 2018 we do so much more then just hand food out we are a listening hear a shoulder to cry on and also work alongside local services to help assist where ever possible We started our foodbank back in 2020 due to the pandemic and it has continued ever since due to so many people struggling with the cost of living crisis and now giving out up to 40 bags each week, nappies, baby milk, school uniform, children's reading books and more We feel extremely passionate as a local charity about giving back to our community and by doing this it allows anyone in need of a little help access to healthy foods, fresh produce and pantry staples and help people get connected to other essential information and benefits that may be of interest to them and they are unaware of We are completely transparent in what we do and you see via any of our social media platforms We would like to pass our thanks on to the stores that donate their surplus foods as it makes a huge impact to how many people we can help and what we collect locally always goes back in the community

The Disablement Association of Barking & Dagenham (DABD) is a registered charity that provides essential support & services across Greater London and have done so for over 73 years. We know that people may face barriers in life for a number of reasons – whether it is disability (physical and sensory), special educational need, unemployment, poverty, isolation, poor health, a lack of educational attainment, qualifications, work, or training. Our aim is to ensure that everyone has equal access to opportunities, be it work, benefits, training, transport, or social activities to enable them to live an independent and full life. Our support extends to all disadvantaged people, with a focus on children, young adults, the elderly, those with special educational needs &/or disabled (SEND), other vulnerable people of all ages and of course, their families and carers as well. Our services support people who are regularly excluded from opportunities, due to their disabilities or circumstances (due to low skill/education levels) and BAMER communities (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic & Refugee) who may find themselves on the periphery of the community and experiencing isolation. The free (or commissioned) support that we offer includes: Welfare Benefits & Financial Advice (inc. energy efficiency support), help around Education, Skills & Employment (designed to support & empower people to get into/or back to work or the educational cycle), Personal Care for disabled and other vulnerable people, Transportation Services (for people of all ages with limited mobility), Community Services (including children, young people, SEND focused, elderly/seniors social, activity and skills clubs), a Community Kitchen (and food bank) and many varied Volunteering Opportunities for the local community, to make a difference to other people’s lives, whilst developing their own skills. Although we cover many Greater London Boroughs and further into Essex and Kent (currently 8), the focus of our work tends to be around the Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest geographic stamp.