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Instant Neighbour has been supporting people in Aberdeen City and Shire for the last 40 years. We support people on low incomes to set up home, by providing access to low-cost reuse furniture, white goods, clothing and bric a brac. As well as our shops, our services include Carpetinc and Joinerinc, professional services that are accessible to everyone to use. The foodbank at Instant Neighbour has offered emergency food parcels to people in need since 1984 when the charity launched in the back room of Holburn West Church in Aberdeen.  Due to the constant increases in demand for our services we rely very heavily on the generosity of individuals, organisations and businesses to make donations to keep the foodbank going. We offer employability experiences through volunteering in our shops, warehouse, in our vans and in our office. Any profit made from the above go back into the organisation to support our Charitable work. You can help us to help those in need by: shopping with us for furniture & electrical goods; using our high-quality, professional carpet supply & fitting and joinery services; giving a gift to the Giving Tree at Christmas; donating your good-quality used furniture, electrical and household items; donating second-hand clothing; donating non-perishable food to us; giving us your time by volunteering with us; or making a financial donation.

Moray Food Plus provides crisis provision to those in need across Moray; in the financial year 2018 - 19 we fulfilled 1950 referrals for crisis support, assisting 4440 people. This is a 45% increase in the number of referrals and 55% increase in the number of people supported on the previous year. Our mission is for people with direct experience of food insecurity to contribute to help shape services, to develop and run projects that recognise the social value of food, to provide opportunities for people to contribute to projects through volunteering, and where possible, to enable people to choose what they eat in a dignified way. We are committed to moving away from a traditional foodbank model and have actively pushed to develop and deliver more early intervention based work through a variety of projects: • Community larders providing a food store to those most in need • Surplus food recovery and redistribution to support community groups • Cooking sessions to children, families and vulnerable adults • Holiday clubs with food provision • Older people’s lunch club • Community meals • Growing projects • Awareness raising and strategic work