Harvesters Soup Kitchen (Christ Apostolic Church - Bethel)
London, UK
We are a Christian community group based in hackney, East London. We work with people of all faiths to change lives in our local community. We are a volunteer led organisation, "our volunteers" generosity in helping us deliver our services, means we can make a real difference in the lives of people in need of help and support. Volunteers are the backbone of the harvesters soup Kitchen, without them we simply would not be able to deliver our services. Our aim to build impactful relationships and work with individuals to take control of their lives through setting goals and making choices aided by high-quality support to move them towards independent living. The Harvesters’ soup kitchen - Food bank, operates weekly (Saturday’s) to distribute much needed grocery supplies to the less privileged in the community. Our clients are vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the community including homeless and those facing threat of homeless, unemployed and those on low income, asylum seekers etc. We deliver our services in Hackney Borough which remains the second most deprived local authority in England on the Government’s Indices of Multiple Deprivation and all the wards are in the top ten percent the most deprived in the country. There is a high level of unemployment, homelessness, and other social challenges. Unfortunately, this same group of people suffer from poor nutrition, have unaddressed health complications and no safe place to self-isolate from other people due to the type of accommodation available to them and again, they seem to bear the brunt of the impact of the COVID 19 crisis and we are in need of urgent financial support to help to minimize this impact on their lives.
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