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Lumi Place CIC is a company based in New Ferry Wirral that is dedicated to helping the community. We are actively involved in fighting food, hygiene, and period poverty. We are operating from own shop premises located in New Ferry Precinct, where we providing FREE OF CHARGE all surplus we do have available. With our efforts, we aim to make a positive impact and improve the lives of those in need. Lumi Place CIC is committed to providing support, resources, and assistance to individuals and families facing these challenges. Through our initiatives, we are strive to create a more inclusive and equitable society for everyone in the community. We serve community by providing food surplus (when available) to every member of public, we also delivering any surplus and hygiene products to homeless shelters like Rosebrae and The Bridge in Birkenhead. We also provide help to local Primary School where we redistributing food surplus, children hygiene products and feminine hygiene products. Our little sister department PePo Bank who fight period poverty supplying any feminine hygiene products to local companies and offices to help woman in need or poverty go through their difficult days. We are proud that within our community we have all spectrum of users. Our youngest users are just tern 18 and they struggling with finance wellbeing so we can provide for them food, household items, clothes , hygiene products and much more. The oldest user of ours is 96 years old and she depending on our food donations. Other elderly members are 70 - 90 years old and they using us for getting food surplus, help in little house repairs and also in what is most important company, so their can talk to someone. We also proudly helping to Ukrainian War refugees living in our community. Lumi Place is helping Community of New Ferry to get back to the state like before 2017 when huge gas explosion put this place and its community in depravation state.

Lifeshare is a grass roots organisation established by volunteers in 1984, and registered as a Charity in 1989. We offer multiple projects to meet the needs of our clients: Respite service: This service runs Friday, Saturday and Sundays from 7-9am, aimed at homeless clients, providing a full cooked breakfast, showers, toiletries, clothing, signposting to other services, and offering training sessions such as digital inclusion and cooking sessions. Manchester Digital Collective: This is a collaboration with other charities and public sectors around Greater Manchester, aiming to bridge the digital divide within the city. We teach digital skills in order to prevent digital exclusion. We also provide digital devices as required free of charge to those who need them, including SIM cards with data, calls and message allowances, and data for those receiving laptops and tablets. Food Bank: For our clients and those referred in by other agencies such as social services. We provide food parcels to cover a 3-day period, aiming to support those who cannot get support elsewhere, or are suddenly in crisis. Christmas Project: Lifeshare hosts Manchester's only 7-day indoor support over the holidays. The project provides three meals a day, hot showers, dry clothes and a raft of support services including opticians, podiatrists, drug and alcohol services, and barbers.

- Education/training - Amateur sport - Recreation - Children/young people - Provides human resources - Provides buildings/facilities/open space