Sainsbury's Lenzie Millersneuk Road Local

We start providing services in the community in January 2024 with our BRAIDS ACADEMY. Many parents currently struggle to maintain their children's hair due to lack of braiding skills and this struggle adds on top of day-to-day school run. The course itself is free but candidates pay £50 to cover their mannequin and all the hair accessories needed for the course. However, we have been unsuccessful in our applications for funding but due to the need of this skills we use our pocket money to run these course until the present day. This is a unique course in the community and know we are making a difference through the testimonials we receive from candidates as well as local organisations - many parents/guardians can now braid their children's hair with Dutch/French Braids, Cornrows, boxing braids and are saving a lot of money as well as starting their own business. Please help us buy mannequins and all hair accessories. We also run a pantry called HCRC COMMUNITY ESSENTIALS for people living in Glasgow particularly in the Eastend areas. However, people from different areas are making use of our services too due to the current financial crisis. Our pantry is getting momentum each week but what we make is too little to sustain the charity shop rent, buy food, pay insurance and other charity bills. Your donation will help us continue to run our services. At the moment we run the pantry once a week on Tuesdays from 10.30am to 1.30pm. This is a soft start to help us get help and support from supermarkets and local businesses. However, we intend to operate Monday to Friday from June 2025. Surplus received from supermarkets and local businesses are suggested donation. However, if an individual decides to join the pantry membership (£5 yearly), they will be entitled to shop once a week, pay £5 which gives them up to 12 grocery points to spend on each visit. We have 3 freezers (with fish, meat, chicken, chips, frozen vegetables etc) and a fridge (with milk, juice, eggs fruits and vegetables) where members can access the essentials they need to get through the week. We also provide toiletries in addition to the goods on the shelves. At the pantry we are not only serving Scottish people as well as Asian, African and Europe. Happy Creative Recreational Centre (HCRC) also runs a clothes shop called HCRC RE- USE SHOP which is also based at the circle on the 2 Nd floor. We also operate on Tuesdays at the moment but intend to open its doors also Monday to Friday. Our heart is to help the community and so these pre-loved chothes and household items are sold in an affordable price to facilitate individuals in the community. We are also taking referrals from organisations. Coming up soon at HAPPY CREATIVE RECREATIONAL CENTRE is our tailored braids Academy programme for children, teenagers and young adults from 5th April 2025. Your donation is welcome. Thank you for your generosity. God bless you.

I work with young homeless people (and threatened with homelessness)within East Dunbartonshire. We are reaching out to companies to ask if they could offer any donations which we may be able to offer to our young people. Some of our young people are sofa surfing, and have no home of their own. Our young people are really struggling this year. So we have decided to run another Christmas Gift appeal. If there's anything you think you could donate, i.e toiletries, hats, scarfs, shower gel sets, hot water bottles, blankets, dry cupboard staples. We will add these in to gift bags. We are aiming to give out as many gift bags as possible. Last year we managed over 30 bags. So we aim to match, if not beat this target. So if there's anything you could help with, we know our young people would appreciate the thought. Thanks Project 101 Team

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