M&S Sidcup

Every day, people go hungry in the UK for all kinds of reasons, from changes and delays in the benefits system to redundancy to receiving an unexpectedly large bill for a major repair. A simple box of food makes a big difference, with foodbanks helping prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems. Bexley Foodbank relies on the support of local people, businesses and communities to help alleviate poverty and hunger in our community. Food donations Non-perishable in-date food is donated by the public at places across the local community, such as schools,churches and businesses, as well as supermarket collection points. It is then sorted and packed into boxes by volunteers, ready to be given to people in need. Food vouchers Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, schools and social workers identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher. They can exchange this voucher for a foodbank parcel of three days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food. The help we give… Our foodbanks offers a lot more than food. Our volunteers offer a listening ear to clients over a warm drink, and signpost people to other charities and agencies who can help resolve the underlying cause of the crisis. There are many ways to help The Trussell Trust as a volunteer from helping at collection points, to stock-taking and audits, to helping us refurbish our premises. We can continue supporting people in crisis thanks to passionate people giving their time to help their hungry neighbours. Please get involved by following our project page and share this project with your friends and followers using the social icons on this page. Click the volunteering tab above to see our upcoming volunteer events and sign up to help us tackle food poverty together.

We are a Christian organisation that promote the love of Jesus Christ world wide. We are set up to promote faith in God and love in the community. We share the love of Christ to all though the expression of love to all mankind across the globe. Our organisation, The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) operates in over 190 countries of the world and we are in over 700 places in the United Kingdom. We promote the true love of Christ, unity and peace among mankind. We share physical things like food, cloth etc from our donors in the communities where we operate. Duding Covid, we secured a grant of £10,000 from London Community fund for food and toiletries for BAME families. We set up a purchase and distribution plan with the local retail shops that opened at the time. Provided them with a list of the items as contents of each pack for either families or individuals. We sent out information through WhatsApp and other social media in the community requesting interested members of the community to respond to us via a dedicated number with their name, address etc. We reverted to therewith our distribution schedule and time in their area and effect deliveries accordingly. In some instances we worked with the community group leaders to reach their members in a more organised way. Overall we were able to distribute food and toiletries to over 300 BAME families in Greenwich and Bexley boroughs within a few weeks.

We run together with St John’s Church a larder where people take what they want give what they can it’s opened daily with supplies of food and hygiene. We also ran singing for the brain for people with Alzheimer’s weekly giving them tea and cake . We run the place of welcome where people meet especially the lonely again tea and cake.We also help all the local schools with cereals and food bags and the local domestic violence unit . We try to help supply pack lunches for children’s days out and run a monthly community lunch . Marks and Spencer Sidcup have agreed to be our partner.