ALDI WEST BRIDGFORD - BECKETT WAY

Diversify Education and Communities CIC is all about promoting cultural diversity and inclusion in schools, businesses and the community. We promote cultural diversity and inclusion through a range of exciting resources, training workshops as well as support/signposting for those persons affected by racism or discrimination. We also provide a hot meals and food parcel distribution to persons in need within the Nottingham city area.

Sanatan Community Service is a CIC whose aims are to prevent Food Wastage and address Food Poverty. This CIC was founded in 2020 during Covid lockdown period. The original initiative was to provide hot meals for the homeless, elderly and vulnerable people during the lockdown period but fair to say we haven’t looked back! With the rising cost of living and economic conditions, we felt there was a genuine need in the community. We slowly started a few more initiatives. We are fully volunteer-led, non-profit organisation with approximately 20 individuals who are religiously committed to the cause of “Give back to the community” attitude. We work in partnership with Fareshare, Neighbourly and with various local supermarkets directly. Generally, food donated by various organisations is collected, triaged, and made available to the needy on a weekly basis. We also cook hot meals from these saved ingredients. Currently, we are involved in four different projects based on our two objectives: minimizing food wastage and poverty. Feed the Homeless – Every Saturday morning average 150 hot meals mostly, Indian curry and rice are cooked and delivered to the Framework Charity’s homeless people. Food bank - All donations are made available for the food bank. Currently 160 families are registered and average 70 families come to collect the free groceries every Saturday morning between 9 AM and 11 AM. Community Kitchen – All the food bank consumers are served with the takeaway hot meals every Saturday mornings. Free School Meal Children Hot Food – We are also involved with Nottingham Forest Field in cooking and delivering average 400 meals to the children who are eligible for free school meals during the school holidays.

At SFiCE Foundation our main objectives are community development, to help reduce the effects of food poverty, isolation, and ill health within the city of Nottingham. We aim to do this by providing several free projects for vulnerable adults and the homeless. We address educational, health & well-being and core needs. In June 2015 we held our first SFiCE Social Cafe in Nottingham to help ease the effects of food poverty faced by vulnerable people within the city. We now open the Social Cafe three times a week. We also provide health checks, ESOL classes, clothing bank and toiletries. Our recent projects are Music for Wellbeing and our the retired Social Club has also started to help reach out to the elderly in our community.