Sainsbury's Newcastle Chillingham Road Local

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/

The Foresight Initiative is a community interest company that helps individuals from all backgrounds through education, self-empowerment, and supportive community services. We seek a society where everyone gets equal chances for success and stresses unity, progress, fellow feeling, and charity. We provide quality learning, student services, and collaboration to foster social inclusion and sustainability. We empower individuals from all backgrounds by providing access to quality education, FOOD BANK, personal growth, and community support. Together, we create an inclusive society where everyone has the chance to succeed and thrive. Our food bank primarily serves students in Newcastle who are struggling with the high cost of living. We deliver food supplies directly to those in need, aiming to support them during challenging times. In addition to the food bank, we organize breakfast, lunch and dinner events where we serve meals and distribute food donated by charities, While these donations are very helpful, they are not always sufficient to meet all needs. To supplement this, we also purchase essential items at reduced prices to ensure we can provide adequate support to the people who rely on us. There is no charge for the food donations or the services we provide; our goal is to support the community without any financial barrier.

St Vincent's Centre Newcastle provides help and support to people and families in need providing a range of support from free hot meals, food parcels, clothing, toiletries and essential family items. We provide support service Monday to Friday 9am till 4pm. Every Tuesday we provide free hot meals to those most in need of food support, we supply free weekly Friday food bags to the local community which help us to prevent food waste anyone is welcome to collect a free bag. Our volunteer drivers do weekly deliveries out to people and families throughout the Newcastle / Gateshead area who are unable to come directly to us. Our Centre also have a small St Vincent's Vintage Charity Boutique. All funds raised in our shop come directly to the Centre to Support our work locally.