GAIL's Bakery Camden Lock

Holy Nation Church north London food program distribute food to the local community around Camden, Islington. Westminster. Our main users are elderly, single parents, students, homeless, people who struggling with finance situation, loneliness, people from Ukraine. We reach out people on the street and to the poorer housing estate neighbourhood with single parent, elderly, students. homeless hostel. We have a network of elderly people help out distribute food to the needy families in the same time feeling their life been filled with joy and benefit from the surplus food. if we have good amount of surplus donation regularly we are able to reach-out at least 50 people a day, 4-7 times a day, from our church members vehicles on the street, and deliver to their home front door or near by collecting point. We been running since 2019 and as long as we able to hold of good supply of surpluses. We will be able to distribute and visit and pray for people in need.

Sankofa Storytelling Arts empowers children and young people by fostering agency and creativity to express themselves through applied theatre, drama storytelling and arts - contributing to finding solutions and ideas on personal, community and global issues important to them. Issues are age appropriate, SEN embedded and include topics such as wellbeing, community responsibility, leadership and social mobility. Two of our services feature Summer and Winter School (which includes a free hot meal) and estate based after school workshops for children and families. We primarily deliver these services within Camden and surrounding areas of socio-economic challenges. We aim to continually foster: - Soft skills of effective communication, collaboration and quiet leadership. - For the children and young people cohorts; develop confidence, agency, artistic and solution based approaches using the arts. - Using the platform of Applied Theatre, crafts and storytelling to create meaningful conversations and positive memories. Food donated to Sankofa will be distributed both during the classes and collected by their families. Most importantly, food donations contribute towards many of their lunches or evening meals in the truest sense of the word. We thank you all for heavily subsidising their wellbeing via surplus foods and volunteering. We're a growing micro team with big aspirations and this 2025 are converting our organisation model to become a charity. Please contact us for details of any of the above points and thank you.

We have been providing food and support for our catchment area as well as asylum seekers within Camden since the beginning of covid. There has been an increased need for support during this time due to the terrible challenges covid has inevitably bestowed upon us. We would like to be able to continue this support as long as the need is there