Sainsbury's Long Eaton Tamworth Road Local

We strive to keep people Safe, Valued and Cared For. We provide a FREE FOOD Stall 4 days a week between 2 venues, where people can have food no questions asked. Each mornings we provide a Café which allows people to socialise and receive support according to their needs. We have a Digital Inclusion Project so people can learn skills and get online at the Hub. We show them all the local Council's sites, Neighbourhood Watch, Police, NHS and show them how to find out information, report things and make contact through social media. We teach Neighbourhood Watch principles and hold regular community events which brings in specialist presenters to teach Health and Safety principles. or provide entertainers and follow this by a lunch; this is attended by up to 60 people. We use local shops and businesses as suppliers. We are regularly visited by organisations who teach about Health and Safety principles and others who offer Sign Posting. We are a registered Safe Space, Warm Space and Digital Inclusion Centre. We also help people to reduce their Carbon Footprint by collected recycling materials. Many of our volunteers do a Health and Hygiene Level 2 course and we have training events to ensure we keep everybody safe. We have a Autism Support Section, we offer various crafting activities and a Tai Chi class for beginners. These are increasingly lead by patron involvement and patron families do some of event meals to offer food from around the world. We have an open door and Inclusion approach that means anyone is welcome and can be included.

We run a community breakfast cafe providing free breakfasts. As part of this we have a free food giveaway where we give out free food. We also give out free food parcels to those in the community who are struggling.

This is a fun couple of hours for our parents & children as well as the local community. We will have a selection of stalls and activities including hot dogs, cakes, tombolas, raffle, Summer Hat competition, crafts, face painting and lots more. All money raised from this event goes direct to pre-school so that we can continue to flourish and provide a much needed service to our community. We are in need of local businesses to support the event by way of donations. We need supplies for our food stalls - hot dogs, cobs, tomato sauce, strawberries, cream, bottles of 'fizz', cakes. We also need donations for our raffle - we need lots of amazing prizes so are looking for vouchers, gifts, products, discounts - anything that would make a good prize! We also have two tombolas that need supplies. We have a sweet cup tombola - simply large plastic tumblers filled with a range of sweets and small bits and bobs suitable for small children (so pencils, hair grips, bouncy balls etc). We also have a bottle tombola - so for this we need products that come in a bottle; anything from wine, beer, perfume, soft drinks...anything as long as it's in a bottle. As the childcare sector continually changes we find ourselves each year facing bigger bills and greater costs and all our fundraising each year enables not only the every day-to-day expenses to be met but also to expand our range of activities for the children. We are currently enhancing our outside area even more and are looking to install a mini trim trail, special outdoor musical instruments, tunnels, willow fencing, a new cover for our sand pit and lots more. Everyone connected with Springfield is extremely grateful for any and all offers of help - thank you :)