Sainsbury's Aberdeen St Nicholas Centre Local

2018 marks Aberdeen Cyrenians 50th year, meeting the needs of people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or affected by homelessness. What started off as a simple soup kitchen now provides a range of support services to over 1,500 people each year. While providing advice, support and information to address root causes and help people to sustain more permanent accommodation, we also ensure that their basic needs are met. We do this in a number of ways which includes providing food parcels and our Street Alternatives service which provides hot meals four times a week. Both of these services rely on donations from individiuals and organisations for fresh and long-life produce. Almost all of the food we have is donated and we simply could not provide the services without support from the local community.

We are a multi-ethnic Christian Community in the city centre of Aberdeen. As part of our community engagement, we run a drop-in food service on a Friday evening for the homeless from the front doors of the church. We provide homemade soup, alongside sandwiches donated by Pret in Aberdeen. We also offer tea/coffee and occasionally have food bags which clients can take away with them to help tide them over the weekend.

Our Project runs a not for profit healthy Living store run by volunteers. We want to promote healthier food distribute & recycle unwanted food and distribute food parcels to the most vulnerable in the community.