GAIL's Bakery West Hampstead

The Glass House is an innovative new winter shelter for the homeless, based in London N19, helping those with nowhere to sleep in Camden and Islington. It’s a collaboration between charities, community groups, the Mayor of London and local councils. Streets Kitchen is a UK & Ireland grassroots group working to help the homeless community, providing daily outreaches with food, clothing and information that benefits our streets. We work in partnership with others across the UK and beyond. Streets kitchen was born in a squat five years ago. It began with the intention to collate a directory of homelessness services within the UK, and grew into a service that unites people who want to help, with people who need help. It is a life-saving service that supports and stands in solidarity with those living on the streets, providing not only hot meals and essential supplies but establishing a sense of community on its outreaches and solidarity centres. It is organised and run by volunteers, many of whom have been homeless and used a Streets Kitchen service themselves. To have food is a basic human right, and Streets Kitchen fulfils that right. We aim to create one central resource to provide up-to-date, useful information that anyone who is hungry, needing some advice or anything that might help their situation can access.

Granville Community Kitchen is empowering community through food – working on the front lines in an area of high deprivation and health inequalities, many families and people are experiencing poverty and limited access to good food. It has a pay it forward philosophy; those who can afford it pay more and contribute to meals for those who cannot. Suggested donations for meals are kept at a low price; currently it is £3 an adult and £1 for children. Most of all, the kitchen never turns anyone away and often people volunteer in exchange for a meal, learning valuable skills and knowledge about food from seed to plate. Everyone who works in the community kitchen does so on a voluntarily basis, and are encouraged to share their skills and knowledge about food, film, health, gardening and community. Granville Community Kitchen is leading this initiative based on the belief that ‘everyone has the right to fresh, good quality, healthy food that does not cost the earth’. All our food is sourced from local urban agriculture and harvesting projects, micro food producers, donations, and other ethical food businesses. “Good food is central to weaving together family, community, health, history, heritage, culture and the environment. Urban Food Routes support made it possible for the Granville Community Kitchen to create a vibrant tapestry that has as its core ‘good food for all’.” Continued development for the project lies within building the capacity of the community and volunteers Dee Woods, Project Coordinator

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/