Sainsbury's Nottingham Park St Local

Sanatan Community Service is a CIC whose aims are to prevent Food Wastage and address Food Poverty. This CIC was founded in 2020 during Covid lockdown period. The original initiative was to provide hot meals for the homeless, elderly and vulnerable people during the lockdown period but fair to say we haven’t looked back! With the rising cost of living and economic conditions, we felt there was a genuine need in the community. We slowly started a few more initiatives. We are fully volunteer-led, non-profit organisation with approximately 20 individuals who are religiously committed to the cause of “Give back to the community” attitude. We work in partnership with Fareshare, Neighbourly and with various local supermarkets directly. Generally, food donated by various organisations is collected, triaged, and made available to the needy on a weekly basis. We also cook hot meals from these saved ingredients. Currently, we are involved in four different projects based on our two objectives: minimizing food wastage and poverty. Feed the Homeless – Every Saturday morning average 150 hot meals mostly, Indian curry and rice are cooked and delivered to the Framework Charity’s homeless people. Food bank - All donations are made available for the food bank. Currently 160 families are registered and average 70 families come to collect the free groceries every Saturday morning between 9 AM and 11 AM. Community Kitchen – All the food bank consumers are served with the takeaway hot meals every Saturday mornings. Free School Meal Children Hot Food – We are also involved with Nottingham Forest Field in cooking and delivering average 400 meals to the children who are eligible for free school meals during the school holidays.

We are a grassroots organisation addressing poverty and hunger and social inequality in all its guises. Panic buying and Covid 19 has disrupted our provisions dramatically. We have put some contingency plans in place for the elderly how we get out to them, as well as those in need. Food and financial donations have slowed down - donations are crucial. Our strategy for food parcels, collection and deliveries are affected as we can no longer bulk buy when needed due to the nation's concern over the spread of the virus and lockdown of services. Last week ending 18/4 we sent out 150 parcels to individuals and families, spending on average £100 daily Please help us reach the most vulnerable in our area

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