ALDI BILLERICAY - QUEEN PARK AVENUE

Building communities and strengthening families

Billericay Foodbank, founded in 2018, is a registered charity providing food and other essential items to over seventy households in Billericay and surrounding areas. For essential overheads, and to deliver a balanced provision of food, consistent funding needs to be available. As well as the regular ambient food, we also like to provide fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as milk, to our families with their weekly food parcel. We will use any funding that we receive towards helping tackle Food poverty. We also support many groups in our community, some of which are listed below. - Disability - Tackling Food Poverty - The prevention or relief of poverty - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - Provides services

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and brand new clothing to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://www.looprun-sciv.online/