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Together In Westminster Community is a community-led organisation dedicated to empowering families, women, and young people through cultural, educational, and wellbeing programmes. We provide a safe, inclusive space for learning, support, and community connection, especially for refugees, migrants, and low-income families in Westminster and surrounding areas. Our centre includes a multi-purpose community hall, meeting and classroom spaces, and a small kitchen where we prepare and distribute food to families and individuals in need. We identify service users through a combination of: Community outreach, Referrals from local Cllrs, faith organisations, and Westminster City Council departments, Direct engagement with families already attending our centre,Ongoing needs assessments via one-to-one conversations. All our services, including food support, are provided entirely free of charge to individuals and families facing hardship. We are committed to removing barriers and supporting our community without creating additional financial pressure. we provide: Free Arabic language classes for refugee and migrant women, Wellbeing and creative workshops for women and families, Signposting and support for housing, education, and employment, Youth engagement, volunteering and leadership programmes, Interfaith and cultural events to build community cohesion, Support with digital inclusion and school applications All services are provided with a focus on dignity, accessibility, and cultural sensitivity. At present, we do not collect surplus food from any retailers. We currently rely on small-scale donations from individuals in the community, including families who want to give back and occasional support from local well-wishers. We are proud to work in partnership with the following organisations, We are proud to work in partnership with the following organisations,Westminster City Council – including the Public Health and Community Engagement teams, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Local Councillors – who have engaged with and supported our community programmes, Local community groups and grassroots initiatives. we have uploaded photographs to our Neighbourly Media Gallery, showcasing: Women’s wellbeing sessions, Family learning workshops and other activities. We are actively seeking partnerships with supermarkets, food retailers, and community surplus schemes to help us expand our food support services and meet growing demand. - General charitable purposes - Education/training - The prevention or relief of poverty - Religious activities - Arts/culture/heritage/science - Amateur sport - Human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity - Recreation - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - People of a particular ethnic or racial origin - Provides buildings/facilities/open space

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, and brand new clothing 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://www.looprun-sciv.online/

The Supermarket runs every Wednesday from 9.30-10.30am at St Marys Church, Wyndham Place. We provide basic groceries and household goods such as rice, pasta, bread, milk, honey, a variety of canned and fresh vegetables, as well as washing up detergent, soap and sanitary products to name but a few. Anyone who is in need of help is welcome to come and help themselves to our supplies, with an optional donation of £3. Guests can take 15 items as a single user or 20 as a family. We ask for an optional donation, as it adds a sense of dignity to visiting the supermarket, but it is by no means mandatory. We operate as a charity outreach scheme with St Marys church, our food is purchased solely using charitable donations, and any money guests give goes directly back into buying groceries. We purchase groceries through Sainsbury's and Asda as well as using Bankuet ( A company that supplies foodbanks across the UK). Donations can be made directly to the St Mary's Social Supermarket account, operated by St Marys Church, or alternatively directly to our account on Bankuet. Any food donations will be collected Tuesday evening and distributed at the Supermarket on Wednesday morning, going directly to the guests. We have access to fridges at the church so can store any perishable foods there overnight. Food donations are not included in the allocated number of items so guests can help themselves to anything they want from donated food on top of their 15 or 20 items. Social Supermarkets throughout the country offer an alternative to food banks as guests can choose what they would like to have and there is a focus on respecting each person who comes through our doors as equals. Alongside the supermarket we serve tea and coffee gifted by St Marys Church and cakes, (cakes donated by Selfridges) to the guests. We want to combat loneliness in the community, so we provide a safe place for our guests to sit, have a chat and connect with each other and the volunteers. We want to build a real community within the supermarket, where volunteers and guests make friends and build a support system. Our goal is to build up our surrounding community to work together and make sure no one in our area goes hungry! We are looking to expand in order to help the growing need in the community currently we have enough donations to serve around 20/30 people. But there are so many more in need we would love to help. A weekly shop for one person is worth approx £20, we would love to help around 50 people weekly, which costs approx £1000 a week. So any donations that could help us reach that goal would be incredible. We are looking for both monetary and food donations at the moment. If any local business would like to come by and see what we do before donating we would love to welcome you! Do reach out with any further questions. Thank you so much. The Social Supermarket Team.