ALDI COVENTRY - ALVIS RETAIL PARK

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We are a small charity born out of a real need during the pandemic to provide people with food support in Cheylesmore, Earlsdon, Whitley & Stonehouse Estate in Coventry. It's been nearly two and a half years since we started up Cheylesmore food hub to provide a helping hand with food & household items to those who need it. During that time, we've supported over 170 families (400+ people) some as one off and some for weeks or months. We've also worked in partnership with Coventry City Council to help them distribute many emergency food parcels as part of a household support fund and activity packs during the school holidays. We are proud that through our partnership with Fareshare, Aubrey Allen and a couple of Asda Stores we've saved tonnes of food from going to waste which is also helping the planet! We support a wide range of people including single people, large families with children, people with disabilities, lone parents, elderly couples, young adults with all differing circumstances, either on benefits or working part time/full time. If people are struggling and need food support we are here to help. We work out of a little storage cupboard in our local community to provide food bags worth £20 at a cost of £5 for our members. They include a mix of tinned and packet goods, cereal, milk, bread, fridge produce and sometimes frozen meat and any household supplies they may need. We have wonderful volunteers who give their time to help pack up 70-80 food bags each week and deliver them out to the people who need them. Of course it takes a lot of donations to make this work and without the generosity of individuals, church collections, schools and community groups we simply couldn't support all the families who need that helping hand. As we're all too aware with the cost of living crisis and food and energy prices soaring there is a greater need to support one another. We anticipate a huge increase in our membership and emergency parcels through the council, so we need your help more than ever... We would be so grateful to be able to access surplus food donations from Neighbourly to give our families a more diverse variety of nutritious food and supplies. And obviously we would rather not need to exist, but hope to be around for as long as our community in Coventry need us. So any financially support to help ensure our sustainability would also be amazing!

Action Family Network (AFN) is an integrated service that work with children and families from African/African Caribbean backgrounds to ensure the family is able to realise its full potential. We focus on providing culturally specific support services to families who are facing multiple complex needs and challenges, including. • Domestic Abuse Service • Advocacy and Parenting Support Services • Emotional Health & Wellbeing Services • Training and Consultancy Services • Separated Parents Support and Contact Services • Young’s People Mentoring Services Action Family Network also supports professionals and organisations through the delivery of bespoke cultural competency training in addition to consultancy services.