Sainsbury's Keynsham Market Pl Local

Kingsmeadow @ Made Forever is a vibrant community wellbeing hub. A registered charity (no 1148905), for over 15 years we have worked with isolated, vulnerable, and disadvantaged families and individuals of all ages, gender, and ethnicity across our community. Our focus is to work with our beneficiaries to help them move forward, to nurture and support them to take control of their lives and maintain that positive journey. Originally working in a small flat on the Kingsmeadow Estate, in March 2018 we were presented with the opportunity to take over the Made Forever youth centre building in Fisher Road. With help from community members, the building was transformed into a fantastic community wellbeing hub in the heart of Kingswood. The hub is now a focal point for the area, providing a variety of wellbeing activities and support services available to all members of community. Alongside a daily programme of wellbeing activities, we run a community garden, refurbishment & recycling workshop, community cafe, food & essential items bank, charity shop and a crisis prevention & personalised support service where people can seek help with the challenges they face. The outdoor sports court, green space, counselling spaces, lounge, indoor sports hall, climbing wall, bouldering room & meeting rooms are used to full capacity to offer a wide range of support techniques. We provide an emotional support platform, where people are able to express emotions confidentially and freely, supported by our trained and experienced staff. We work with people to help them understand and deal with their thoughts and emotions, providing continual encouragement, motivation and mentoring. Practical support sits alongside emotional support. We provide active help and advocacy in areas such as housing, health/wellbeing, welfare, debt, budgeting, managing money, benefits and completing forms. We also provide hot meals and food parcels. Donations of longlife food such as tinned soup and vegetables, dried pasta and rice, tinned meat and fish, teabags, UHT milk, biscuits and cereals, as well as fresh, are in particular high demand at this time. We provide emergency warm clothing and blankets, essential hygiene kits (including shampoo, shower gel, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, toilet roll, menstrual products, hand sanitiser), household products (including washing up liquid, washing powder) and baby care packs including nappies, nappy rash cream, baby wipes, soap and shampoo). We accept donations of food, clothing, household products and items, gardening equipment, arts and crafts materials. All monetary donations go directly towards our wellbeing activities and services for the individuals and families we support. We are enormously grateful for all donations we receive. All gifts have a tremendous impact on our community’s wellbeing, and enable us to continue to provide support and services directly to those in need. Thank you.

We are a community fridge that takes surplus food from local businesses and suppliers, using trained volunteers, and make it available in a public place to anyone who wants it. Our current home is in the library in the Keynsham Civic Centre on Market Walk. The main purpose of the community fridge is to reduce food waste. Food waste is a big issue in the UK. Around 10 million tonnes of food waste is produced in the UK every year, of this an estimated 60% could be avoided. Food waste also produces greenhouse gases when it decomposes  and is a net contributor to global warming.  On average, over the last 4 years, we have kept 1.5 tonnes of food waste per month out of landfill. The food, mostly fresh food, although we do also receive some ambient food, is available for free to anyone who wants it, with no eligibility requirements. In taking food people are asked to consider others, we get approximately 50 people per day using our service, and take only one small bag of food per person, per day. Our service helps to address food poverty as well as raise awareness about waste, food security and living in a sustainable manner. We are a not for profit company limited by guarantee. We are registered as a Food Company by B&NES and have completed all the HACCP protocols, risk assessments and health & safety protocols. Our policies can be seen in the documents of this page.

Lyde green Community Association operates a Community Centre, and provides events and activities for the benefit and development of the local community. We are a Community Centre. Lyde Green Community Centre, Thistle Close, Lyde Green Bristol Surplus food is placed in a 'Communal Food Shelf' for community members to help themselves to. Local service providers (such as Sirona midwives and health visitors also refer to us). Bristol After Stroke Group and other charities that operate from our Centre also refer to us. We run events and activities to support the community. 10% of tickets to all our events are given to those in financial need - these can either be self referred or referred by our local service providers detailed above. There are charges for some events but as detailed above these can be accessed free of charge by community members in need. We have volunteers who collect from Olio as we no longer are food collectors for Neighbourly as our local Sainsburys no longer use this method of distribution. We run a monthly column in Emersons Green Voice detailing our work. Emersons Green Town Council shares our work on their social media. social media links :https://www.facebook.com/LydeGreenCC and https://www.facebook.com/lydegreencommunityassociation