Sainsbury's Dormanstown Local

Footprints in the Community is a charitable incorporated organisation which aims to establish a variety of services under one umbrella to help address isolation and poverty in Redcar and surrounding areas, and to provide a network of support to local people and organisations. Our projects include: - Redcar Area Foodbank provides emergency food and support to anyone facing food poverty due to a crisis. Our centres offer a warm welcome and a parcel containing food for at least three days. Clients are also offered a warm drink and snack. Each centre has a Citizens Advice Outreach Worker to offer 1:1 suppor and advice and to signpost to other services. - First Steps - provides pre-loved baby equipment and/or clothing packs to families who are struggling to get the baby essentials together. - The Shed - The Shed is a sociable woodworking and creative space where members can work on their own projects in an informal and supportive setting. It's perfect for anyone with a passion for woodworking, or who's always wanted to give it a go but never had access to the tools to try. We have a wide range of hand and bench tools and our staff and skilled volunteers are on hand to provide guidance. - Next Step Shop - Our Next Step Shop can be a lifeline for anyone who regularly struggles to afford food. They are easy to use, low cost shops which members can visit once a week and pay a small subsidised fee to choose a selection of food items from the shelves. There's also non-food items, sanitary products and often a choice of bread and fresh produce which members can also select from. - Footprints Café - is a community café run that offers high-quality meals at low cost to people in the local community. - Lunch Box Project - Our lunchbox project provides opportuniities for families of primary-age children to enjoy fun activities together, keeping little ones busy during school holidays without breaking the bank. Our friendly and approachable staff and volunteers run fun sessions of crafts and lego, whilst our guest providers offer the chance to try something new, like amazing circus skills. We help fill tummies too, as every child is offered a tasty and nutritious breakfast, snack or lunch. - Our New Start project provides packs of small homeware items to people who are struggling with the essentials of setting up a home. People can be referred by a Foodbank centre, Next Step Shop or any of our other referral agencies. Items included in New Start packs: bedding, towels, pans, utensils, cutlery, crockery, kettles, toasters and cleaning packs. - Reflections Dementia Support is a safe, friendlly group for people living with dementia, their families and carers. However dementia has touched your life, join our friendly and compassionate volunteers for a cuppa and a chat at one of our regular get togethers.

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, and brand new clothing 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://www.looprun-sciv.online/

Mo Mowlam Academy is a Special Education and Mental Health (SEMH) setting (primary and secondary school) in the Borough of Redcar for students who have an Educational Health Care plan (EHCP). We currently have approximately 100 students on roll. Mo Mowlam Academy is also a UNICEF Rights Respecting School which means that students not only learn about their rights as children, but they also uphold the rights of others. The idea of an 'Eco-shop'/ 'Pop up Food Pantry' was borne from this concept that we can help others around us for the greater good of the world. Initially, we are looking to open a shop within the school building (the dining hall) and open this both to parents of students and members of the wider community. We are looking for food, cleaning and toiletry donations. The redistribution model will work as follows: Customers will be charged £2.00 for 10 items of essential food (they will have a choice of approximately 20 items). Initially, we are concentrating on dried foods e.g. pasta, UHT milk, soup etc but will look to expand this to fresh goods in the near future. We firmly believe that: - The opening of a 'Food Pantry' in Redcar will be used to tackle food poverty in the local area. - Money should not be a barrier to eating- Child poverty in Redcar and students at Mo Mowlam sit above the national average. - A Food Pantry will plug a gap in the local area- there is only one confirmed Eco-shop in the vicinity despite Redcar having a population of nearly 137, 000. - Providing essential food at a lower cost will provide a much needed service to our families and the local community including the elderly and those with young families. - A food pantry will help towards cutting food waste and work towards sustainability. In addition, students at Mo Mowlam Academy will be part of this exciting project- they will learn valuable skills such as team work, negotiating, letter writing, money skills, stock replenishment, as well meeting those in communities during the food bank opening times. These vital skills will take them to adulthood. Thus, the Food Pantry will have an educational impact, as well as social. We thank you for reading this and look forward to hearing from you.