Sainsbury's Newhall Local

A local organisation for the local community in and around Burton Upon Trent. 100% Staffed by local unpaid volunteers. 100% funded by donations from local people and businesses. Our work focuses on those in society that struggle to get the help they need from anywhere else. Also making the public aware of what is happening in their own area. Twice weekly, totaling 80 volunteer hours, teams of trained volunteers scour the local area in search of the homeless to check up and invite to the support resources on offer in the Market Place, Burton Upon Trent. Teams of volunteers offer hot drinks , clothes , food bags to hungry and homeless. Our trained team focus here is to Try and get these individuals back on their feet , Deal with any medical issues Registering with GP’s , Housing, Alcohol and drug rehab referrals, mental health treatment. Donations come into Burton hope from local businesses and individuals, we have volunteers that collect and transport these to our storage facilities.

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. 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 impact 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, pet food, brand new clothing and gifts to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. 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 has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained, thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://looprunresponse.online/

Hello, My name is Carole-Anne I’m the founder of a small community group called Heart of the community, I founded this group, firstly because I myself as a child often went without food. Secondly the thought of anyone else going hungry made me more determined to do something about it, For over 20 yrs my husband and I have given Xmas day hampers to local family’s that needed help to put food on the table, Over the years the need has become greater and greater So in 2022 with a great team I formed Heart of the community❤️ A non profit community group We have now partnered with Rebecca Barnett landlady of The Lamb Inn in Newhall where we are based. Each Wednesday we hand out food hampers for anyone struggling to buy food, we don’t discriminate at all, wether working or not, family or single or homeless, All hampers are free. Also available each Wednesday is free lunch, tea or coffee & a warm fire, Along with hampers we also give warm blankets to members of the community, we also have 3 clothe banks with star charity which means we can help with clothing families, We are also lucky enough to have partnered with Period power who provide us with free sanitary wear for the hampers should they be needed,( pictured ) And what a surprise when Swadlincote local police also popped in to support us, they mentioned what a great service we are providing for the local community, and mentioned us on there social media group ( pictured ) At the moment we don’t have any outside funding or any help with surplus foods from retailers we are constantly raising funds via weekly jumble sales at The Lamb Inn or we have a social media page to hold auctions and raffles. All our hampers are free we do not have any charge at all. No criteria at all, if help is genuinely needed we will help, hampers are available via a self referral form available by emailing us , we also have referrals coming in from NHS, P3, schools & GP’s, everyone is dealt with in the strict confidence,