Sainsbury's Wembley Place Local

With the levels of unemployment, along with the number of low-paid employees living in Brent, many residents find themselves at a crisis point. They are unable to feed their families and provide for life’s basic needs. There may, however, be many other challenges within the family, which may contribute to the family crisis. It is bearing this in mind that the Centre of Help and Hope was conceived. The Centre provides the following services: Food bank Clothing hub Befriending service Gardening services Counselling services Light domestic help Vocational skills Intentional parenting courses

We befriend people to relieve isolation and loneliness while informing of opportunities around them, supporting them to achieve potentials by improving skills already possessed through volunteering/ work experience and placements and or providing new skills for life chances and sustainability. Based in a rented shop unit in Grahame Park Estate, 7 The Concourse, NW9 5XB, used as a Church meeting place on Sundays, we provide Youth Club on Thursday and Friday evenings, warm space in cold weather and cool space in warm weather and provide health & wellbeing activities for people aged 55+. We offer seasonal parenting programme to strengthen families and our community. We provide daily good surplus food redistribution to relieve food hunger and to prevent wastage towards Net Zero 2050, and weekly food bank with fitness exercises, and monthly nutrition advice session with social prescribing. We offer advice and referrals as needed. We provide employment skills training towards self-sustainability. We also provide financial support funded by Acts 435 and household support fund in collaboration with BOOST of Barnet Group. We are a member of Barnet Food Partnership, led by the Health in All Policies, Public Health Communities, Adults and Health Directorate, London Borough of Barnet More information about Living Way Ministries and Barnet Foodshare is online at www.livingwayministries.net

FoodCycle is a national charity that builds communities through the power of good food. FoodCycle is based upon the simple idea that waste and poverty should not co-exist and that something powerful can be achieved by cooking and eating together. Every week, volunteers across the country reclaim surplus food destined for the bin. This food is instead cooked into healthy, tasty three-course community meals for vulnerable people. Hosted in the Mildmay Community Centre, FoodCycle Dalston has been serving tasty three course meals every Monday lunchtime since May 2017, and we have gone from strength to strength! We want to continue serving the community but need three things to help this continue; A) Surplus food from the community - from bakers to grocers, from national retailers to independents B) Lead Cooking volunteers - to ensure that volunteers are supervised in the pick up, cooking and hosting of the meal. We give free training! C) Guests from the community - referrals from other organisations who think their service users may benefit from our meal.