Sainsbury's Gomersal Oxfrd Rd Local

Batley Food Bank is a registered charity. We collect food from the public and redistribute it to families in need, providing enough for the whole family, for three meals a day for one week. We work on a referral basis and now offer an advice and guidance service in partnership with Paddock Trust. If you are a resident of Batley or the surrounding areas and need to access the food bank, you can get a referral from the following organisations: - DWP or Job Coach - Sure Start centres - KNH Housing offices - Batley Comminitu Outreach - Kirklees Benefits Advice Service - School or Nursery - Support Worker - Social Worker - Addiction Services If you are usnure how to ghet help, ring us and we will will do our best to support you

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The Game Changerz run a local youth and sports club in the Fieldhead area of WF17. Fieldhead is in the top 10% lower super output area, predominantly made up of council/social housing with a high unemployment rate. The Fieldhead Estate is the most socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhood in Fieldhead, Birstall, and has suffered disproportionate challenge/difficulty because of the COVID-19 crisis, with families suffering from greater financial hardship, physical inactivity, social isolation and malnutrition. We have been working with local food share groups who have been donating food, and also we are Fare Share members to initially challenge our older youth hub members to make meals from the surplus food. From our first donation, they used eggs, bread, pesto and tomatoes to make eggy bread, scrambled eggs and omelettes etc which they all then enjoyed eating. The children and young adults that attend are rarely at home and therefor don't always get a cooked meal every day. By using surplus food donations to create their own meals, they are being fed, using waste and learning valuable life skills for the next stage of their lives. We would really like to secure collections to enable the choice / variety of what they can cook / eat / share even better. We also plan to use the food to provide food parcels to the families of the 40 children that attend our sports clubs each week.