Sainsbury's Bristol Union Street Local

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, pet food, brand new clothing and gifts to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained, thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://looprunresponse.online/

We are a supported accommodation in the heart of Bristol (BS1) that provides temporary housing with medium to high support for up to 53 young people commissioned by Bristol City Council. Our residents are aged between 16 and 23 and are often in crisis when they are referred to us having left foster care or their family home abruptly often never lived on their own before. Bristol Foyer provides housing related support to equip young people with the necessary skills to thrive in life such as cooking/budgeting/employment/education/access to therapy and aims to support young people to build a real sense of self-worth and pride in themselves before they move on. We work closely with community partners to ensure young people have all the support they need when they leave here to aim high in life and manage 'adult life' and the responsibilities that come with that. We are currently partnered with Empire Gym who deliver boxing therapy sessions at the Foyer, we have the Cause who are a community grass roots organisation and deliver weekly sessions to the young people here, Bristol Drugs Project have started outreach sessions at the Foyer to enable a full service of support to young people that live here. LUSH supports us with donations of toiletries to ensure those who come here in crisis can feel fresh and clean in themselves. Key4Life supports young people at the Foyer who have been criminally exploited and runs a great programme supporting young people with employment support tailored for the young people. Saint Nicholas Church supports us during Christmas and Easter with hampers for the residents that live here to ensure they have Christmas presents and Easter eggs. We are very proud of the support we have been pulling together to ensure that the young people who live here feel like it's a home. Our next aim is to have food available in the kitchens for young people to help themselves to whenever they are hungry. Most 16/17/18/19 yr olds when they are hungry open the fridge in their home and make themselves some food without thinking. Our 16/17/18/19 yr olds that live here have to carefully budget and use food banks to support themselves with no treats. Any support with food donations to ensure their home feels like a home should feel would be greatly appreciated.

Our mission is to change the face of homelessness in Bristol. Our aim to petition the Bristol City Council to bring about real change to our incredible city. Through the support of our trustees, staff and volunteers our vision is to develop a site with ten shipping containers, converted in to self contained studio flats, providing short term emergency accommodation, until a service user is found a permanent home. We would provide ongoing support as necessary. We believe that having a home is not an entitlement, it is a RIGHT. Everybody should have the opportunity to live in a place they can call their own. We are a non-profit organisation operational for 6 weeks. On a weekly basis our team of volunteers take food, drink, clothing, rucksacks and sleeping bags to locations. You can visit our website or Facebook page to follow our progress.