Argos Berryden Road (Inside Sainsbury's)

Our well-established Community Food Larder, based in Lochee at Whorterbank, provides free and low-cost groceries and is: • Open to everyone • No referral required (or details needed to be given access). • People have the ability to choose what items they require. • Sustainable middle ground between traditional foodbanks and supermarkets The aim is to promote dignity, ownership and choice to our members, and hope that by offering a larder to our community we are supporting other organisations, as well as reaching out to others in our community. We also run a friendly, sociable café area where members can enjoy hot and cold refreshments as well as access support services, such as: • Energy advice, citizens advice, welfare rights and more… We hope we have created a friendly, non-judgemental environment where people feel safe and comfortable to ask for help when needed.

2018 marks Aberdeen Cyrenians 50th year, meeting the needs of people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or affected by homelessness. What started off as a simple soup kitchen now provides a range of support services to over 1,500 people each year. While providing advice, support and information to address root causes and help people to sustain more permanent accommodation, we also ensure that their basic needs are met. We do this in a number of ways which includes providing food parcels and our Street Alternatives service which provides hot meals four times a week. Both of these services rely on donations from individiuals and organisations for fresh and long-life produce. Almost all of the food we have is donated and we simply could not provide the services without support from the local community.

We aim to provide help to those who are living on the breadline and going hungry to afford electric and heating.