Sainsbury's Brighton Queens Road Local

The Real Junk Food Project intercepts this perfectly edible food from local businesses and supermarkets before it is thrown away, turning it into healthy meals to serve to the community on a Pay as You Feel basis. The Pay As You Feel concept invites people to exchange not just their money, but ideas, time and creativity for a meal.

Kennedy Street Foundation CiO (known as Kennedy Street Recovery) was set up by myself, Clare Kennedy and my husband, Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts from Coronation St). We are both in long term addiction recovery and very active in the community. Our project has been running as a community interest company since 2014. Then re-registering as a charity foundation since 2020. With the support of many great volunteers, we launched our exciting Brighton based Recovery Hub in September 2022, which offers a safe, visible, alcohol and drug free space, where those seeking recovery including their families, can start their recovery journey. Our ultimate objective, is to inspire those choosing recovery, to become the very best they can become, to build dignity, self respect and to encourage those in recovery to become outstanding, inspirational, fulfilled members of our community. We have a volunteer training programme that offers those in abstinence based recovery a chance to learn new skills including peer mentoring and recovery coaching certifications. Our peer mentors also design and run morning workshops that are available for all our clients and members to attend and these can range from mindfulness, creativity, physical health and mental health and wellbeing. In the corporate setting we encourage the companies we work with to demonstrate forward thinking corporate responsibility by offering organisational support via staff involvement and sponsorship. We work in partnership with numerous Brighton and Hove services including; * Brighton & Hove City Council * Police crime commissioner * Probation * Sussex Pathways * CGL * St. Peters Church * Knight support * Rise * Sussex Beacon * St. Mungos * Oasis * Move on * BHT * First Base The surplus food that is donated is used to produce a daily meal that is free to all our volunteers, new clients and long-term members. A suggested donation is always welcome but not necessary. We also offer via our drop-in recovery cafe, which we open daily 2-5pm, a menu of freshly made food (from our end of day fresh produce) and drinks for clients who are still in active addiction but are interested in finding out more about recovery. Any produce which we have at the end of the day is available for our volunteers to take home. We currently work in partnership with Fareshare To Go, collecting end of the day fresh produce once a week, however we are open every week day and keen to provide fresh food throughout the week.

BrightStore is a community grass roots level food project run by and for local people. It's a very reasonably priced membership scheme. We offer high quality, affordable food including bread, eggs, fruit and vegetables along with other essential items. We are a solidarity scheme, which means that people can pay more if possible, to support those less able to pay. In return for a very affordable weekly shop, members who sign up to be part of the project are encouraged to get involved in helping to run it. Roles include managing deliveries, working with suppliers and setting up the weekly store.