ALDI BRISTOL - YATE

We are BS15 CIC has been running since 2021. Our first project, The Kingswood Kitchen opened in June 2021, with three other projects following within 18 months; The Trinity Food Garden, The Beacon Cafe Hanham and The Kingswood Food Club. The Kingswood Kitchen now serves an average of 80-100 hot meals every Thursday. It runs on a pay-as-you-can model and is open to any household local to BS15. The Food Club redistributes food surplus to support 40-50 households each week with affordable food. Households pay a £2 annual membership and £3 for a bag of shopping worth £15-£20 at supermarket prices. The Beacon Cafe is (open Wednesday to Saturday) thriving and now hosts a dementia cafe, social group for deaf people and other informal groups. It uses a 'Pay-as-You-Can' model. Our organisational aims are to reduce food inequality and social isolation in the area while also reducing food waste.

We are looking for donations of surplus food to support this cause and get off to a great start we would love to have this in place before the 6 week holidays begin in July, we will be using the food to cook free family meals and as a collection point to the local community who need support even more now than before. I hold the relevant cooking and hygiene certificate needed and hoping this will help our community I am located in chipping sodbury bristol. We will be starting a community group on Facebook and sharing on local pages to gain awareness we just need to get going and some support to start helping soon children will be off school and provide warm free cooked meals will be fantastic. We will share where we get donations from and also send photos of our produce to advertise. Many thanks Aimee waters Update: We are up a running on donations from the community & own funds we cant believe how many local family's have been needing this service. free meals and bakes for all we, have been delivering to people that cant get out. youre help would be vital for us to keep up & running. we now have a facebook page.... Family Food 4 Free

Mercy in Action in the UK works alongside young homeless women and their babies by providing accommodation and ongoing support through a network of Petra Houses. In B&NES we have also run Action Pantry, a food club for families struggling with food poverty. All families are referred by professionals and attend weekly to collect their food, choose free clothing for their children and chat with support workers who can help with signposting to other organisations.