Sainsbury's Church Crookham Sandy Lane Local

Zero Hunger is a community-led food movement dedicated to reducing food insecurity, preventing loneliness, and tackling food waste across Hart, Rushmoor, Basingstoke & Deane and surrounding areas. We provide access to quality surplus food through our community outreach venues, helping individuals and families facing financial hardship while also creating welcoming, safe spaces where people can connect and feel supported. Our work helps save tonnes of perfectly good food from going to waste each year and redistributes it directly back into the community. We currently serve between 400 to 500 people and week. Alongside food support, we actively promote wellbeing, inclusion, and community engagement through volunteer opportunities and local partnerships. Our volunteers — known as Food Heroes — are at the heart of everything we do and help us create a positive, non-judgemental environment for everyone who accesses our services. We are always grateful for support in the form of surplus food donations, volunteers, and community partnerships. Additional support allows us to expand our outreach, reach more vulnerable people, and continue building stronger, healthier communities where no one goes hungry or feels alone.

Brightwells Gostrey has been in the heart of the community for older people for over 30 years. We provide a warm and friendly environment for senior citizens to meet. Offering a variety of vital activities and services including door to door transport, freshly cooked meals, daily activities, exercise classes, gardening, singing, craft workshops, outings and much more. We are proud to bring a sense of belonging, companionship, fun and enjoyment to those in their golden years. We also offer a Community Meal Service, ensuring those who need it, regularly receive a nutritious freshly cooked meal and pudding. All dishes are prepared from scratch in our kitchen, including vegetarian options and diabetic requirements. Meals are delivered between 11:30am and 1pm, Monday - Friday by our friendly team of volunteers. Afternoon tea as well as frozen options are also available for the weekends. Sending our warmest and well wishes to you all during this extremely difficult time. Whilst our social centre has sadly closed for the time being, we are still very much here for the older community of Farnham. We have extended our daily meal service, delivering in Farnham and the surrounding villages. If you are interested or know of someone in need, please do call Maggie or Jess on 01252 725330 / 01252 727280

Our Community Cupboard aims to helping to reduce food poverty and food waste. Accessible to anyone in need of support and offering access to the full range of support services at The Vine Centre. The Vine Centre exists to serve the community. We aim to support the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our community; adults and families that are socially isolated, long term unemployed, homeless or poorly housed, suffering with mental health, addiction or learning difficulties. Often individuals will approach us for one service, then when a good level of trust has been built they will engage with other services and activities that we offer. With our wrap-around services we are able to support a client on their whole journey, reducing any barriers to progression or engagement that they may face. We take pride in being a safe and welcoming centre, where adults of all ages and nationalities feel comfortable to access. We provide training and development opportunities, addiction support, mental health and anger management, budgeting and benefit support, counselling, support with homelessness and housing sustainment. We run social groups to help combat social isolation and provide opportunities for our beneficiaries to learn, grow and feel empowered to make positive changes and sustainable independence.