GAIL’s Bakery Kew

We believe that every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. Our mission is to invest in community support in order to uplift and empower all generations together. We do that, by creating projects and providing necessary resources in underprivileged areas. Scrawly has been running since the beginning of the lockdown in 2020, when we started providing practical donations to key workers, families, community and charities. We continiously support on an ongoing basis local churches, homeless kitchens, youth organisations, as well as distribution of surplus throughout the communities accross London.

Each year we will engage with young people, aged 14-21, who are at a high risk of, or currently are, involved in criminality and high-risk behaviour. We will do this through a detached youth-work model whereby youth- workers and trained community volunteers will engage with young people on the streets late at night and bring them back to our Youth Centre for free food and fun and interesting/developmental activities. From these sessions the young people will be paired with mentors who will support them into our own, and partner, services and activities offering support such as therapy and work focused training.

The Food with Love Community Pantry is a community food club, run by and for its members offering good quality, healthy and nutritious food through low cost membership. In June this year (2022) Food with Love (FwL) launched a new and innovative service aimed to empower the residents of the London Borough of Hounslow. The FwL Community Pantry helps families living on the threshold to sustain their livelihoods whilst maintaining their self worth and dignity. We are a community resource; here for those who need us. Our main aim is to; - Support and strengthen the self-esteem of members - Increase self-reliance and resilience - Reduce reliance on food banks. Each member makes a small contribution towards the cost of the food they choose during their weekly visit to the Pantry. To ensure that essential staples are always available the Pantry reinvests all of its member’s fees to buying stock. One of the ethos of FwL is to help decrease the amount of food that is needlessly sent to landfill each year. FwL collects and redistributes surplus stock from supermarkets and food manufacturers within the London Borough of Hounslow. The nature of suppliers means that the supplies are varied every week.