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Community Care Collective C.I.C. is a volunteer-led organisation with a simple mission: Zero Waste, Zero Hunger. We rescue good surplus food and share it with people in our community who need it. Our volunteers collect food from local supermarkets, cafés and other providers through Neighbourly, FareShare and Caboodle. We provide free food parcels to families and individuals, and share food with local schools, community groups and partner organisations. People reach us through word of mouth and referrals from schools and community organisations. We stock a community cupboard where people can access food anonymously and with dignity. Our fortnithgly "Share-Wood Saturdays" bring neighbours together to share food, and "Longthornton Larder" will open on 3 October 2026 as another fortnightly community food share. Each week, the food we redistribute is equivalent to approximately 2,250 meals. By connecting surplus food with local need, we help reduce waste, ease pressure on households and make sure good food is shared.

Centrepoint services include: A warm, safe room for young people every night • Specialist psychotherapy, counselling and healthy living support • Accredited education programmes and one-to-one tutoring • Life-skills courses such as cooking and budgeting • Career development opportunities, employability programmes and access to work experience and training We are incredibly proud that 88% of the young people that we support move on with a positive outcome. - Education/training - Accommodation/housing - young people - Provides support -

- Religious activities - Other charitable purposes - The general public/mankind - Provides services - Other charitable activities. The organisation is a religious registered charity that caters for all regardless of age, marital status or ethnicity. The organisation provides counselling, help and advise to its members and community. We don’t charge and has never charged for services provided. We source for donations from neighbourly partner’s and within ourselves. we haven’t collected any foods from any local council and we haven’t published any of our works with any local council. the social media page is been reconstructed, we intend to put more of our community outreach on our page. we intend to distribute the surplus immediately, the church has building as a place of worship where we meet twice a week and do our community outreach. We distribute food surplus from neighbourly partners to the community twice a week(Thursdays and Sundays)