Sainsbury's Cheltenham Bath Road Local

Aspire Foundation are running a wide variety of free community events through the Community Family Worker Project, including cooking classes, first aid workshops, trips to the beach and summer playschemes. Alongside this, the Community Family Workers run weekly groups in centres across the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury localities. The aim of the groups is to bridge the gaps in services between universal and targeted support, allowing families an opportunity to learn, play and socialise in a safe and friendly environment. We are also able to make a distribute food parcels for families in need through these groups.

At our community food group save share and support, We aim to help vulnerable and low income families in need around the Gloucestershire area. With a team of volunteers, we look at saving food waste which consists of fresh, chilled, ambient, frozen, tins, cans, pet and household items from local stores and supermarkets we then redistribute to the people that need it most. We also welcome donations. We understand that times are hard for a lot of people having to choose to eat or pay a bill so just by helping put food on the table could help brighten there day and help their financial strain. No one should go without. Along with this we are also doing our bit to help the environment. At save share and support we operate from a private residence which is registered with the food standard agency. People in need can find us through social media and at the moment word of mouth(we already have enquiries). We will identify service users by asking for proof of address and any supporting evidence that can show us they’re in need. Priority will go to these people (all kept confidential). Any food waste after will be offer to the local community via social media. Once service users are verified these people will be notified via what’s app of collections we have and will be Notified once ready for collection and collected straight away. This is a free service to help as said above and run by volunteers.

The St Michael's Cornerstone Trust exists to support the people of the Lynworth, Priors and Whaddon area of Cheltenham. We focus in particular on the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, the maintenance and improvement of public amenities and the provision of leisure facilities in the interests of social welfare. We run a coffee shop offering affordable hot and cold drinks which serves as a local hub, alongside a charity shop, a reasonably priced laundry service and free access IT facilities. In addition to this we run lots of different groups throughout the week - an art group, a homework club, a Boccia group, coffee mornings, soup lunch, a toddler group, a board games group, bingo sessions, and a knit and natter group. In addition we also rent out our facilities to local businesses and so also offer an over 50s fitness class and a chiropodist's services. Our facilities are also hired by local counselors from various agencies to see clients. Being community minded, we have facilitated having a community defibrillator fitted on to the local shop, and are involved in providing trained staff to supplement this. We are now setting up a Food Pantry service, to provide food for local families and individuals in need. We want to be able to provide an holistic service to people in need in our locality, including additional support as well as the basic food, in order to help reduce inequality and poverty in our area of Cheltenham.