GAIL's Bakery Ealing

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.

Southall Lions meet the needs of local communities and the world every day because they share a core belief - to serve their community. Together, our Foundation and Lions are helping communities with delivering needs such as food, water and clothing.

We opened Northolt Food Hun on 2nd December 2022 at Viking Community Centre in Northolt. We currently have 100 families we support and also have Salvation Army in Greenford to support (30) families. We are a non profitable charity and solely rely on donations from local supermarkets etc. we do have lions club Wembley supporting us over the last few weeks. We would very much like support from Neighbourly to support our food hub too. We have families who are vegetarian, halal and non halal. We would accept meat, bakery, tinned food, fruit and vegetables etc. we would like to thank you in advance considering to support our food hub. Miss Ragini Patel BEM Ps I have been honoured by the queen earlier last year for my continued support in the communities. We receive support of surplus food from Farm Foods in Yiewsley, Sainsbury’s local in Northolt and Wenzels both in Greenford and Northolt. We support organisations such as Jalaram Mandir with bakery items, church in Wembley every Saturday with Wenzels bakery and we support Salvation Army in Greenford - Kath, and a hotel locally where it has asylum seekers who are so grateful for all surplus food - halal only. We are extending our supporting to surrounding areas/boroughs too. We would like to request donations from any supermarkets, nandos, or restaurants that have any surplus food so that we are able to support more charities, families etc.