The Lunch Club (REHOBOTH Community Outreach Club)
London, UK
REHOBOTH COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLUB located 1-18 Allwood Close, Sydenham SE26 4JP is a charity and it has been entered onto the Register of Charities with the Registered Charity Number 1168822.
Rehoboth Community Outreach club started reaching out to vulnerable families in 2013, offering befriending, parenting & life skills training. Over time the services evolved expanding to offer mentoring to young people, employment skills training and a food bank. In March 2014 Rehoboth started receiving requests for support with addressing the increasing issue of food poverty amongst the single homeless living in hostels and the local street homeless, this saw the launch of the Community Lunch Club. Initially the lunch club was feeding 20 people every Monday with a 2 course hot meal. But this number quickly grew to 150 people a week when Rehoboth partnered with Miriam Lodge providing meals to their most vulnerable homeless residents. The partnership has expanded and Rehoboth community outreach club “The Lunch Club” now deliver 200 meals every Monday across 2 hostels. In addition, we have some homeless people living locally in the community who walk-in and collect their meals. The feeding programme also provides a soup social, with home cooked vegetable and chicken soup with rolls to the residents in the hostels on a Friday.
The generosity of our local donors business and others in neighbouring community, with financial donations from the church membership and individuals, make it possible to provide our services free to vulnerable individuals and families. The community outreach service is facilitated by a team of 25 volunteers who cook, serve food, clean, deliver the meals, and provide the befriending, mentoring and training activities. Rehoboth hopes to double its feeding programme to 300 meals a week by the end of 2018; to support at least 50 homeless people to capacity build their employment and life skills, enhancing their potential of accessing employment, education and training opportunities.
The Rehoboth Community Outreach Club aims are to contribute to breaking the generational cycle of poverty and deprivation within families, inspire hope & healing in the heart and soul of vulnerable individuals and communities and encourage peace, unity and respect across generations. We seek and appreciate further financial, time and resource donations that enable us to meet our vision of UK communities free from food poverty and benefiting from sustained upward social and economic mobility for everyone.
A donation of £2.50 provides one hot meal; £10 provides 4 hot meals. For further information please contact.
REHOBOTH COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLUB
Bank: Barclay's
Sort code: 20-57-76
A/c no: 03050181
@RehobothCharity
Email: Rehobothcommunityoutreachclub@rcoc.org.uk
Paula Walker-Litchmore
Founder
Rehoboth Community Outreach Club
07946 354617
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Foundations, Flexibility, and Fun
Motiv8 is a place based, life-chance charity empowering those often excluded from or missed by other services toward a brighter future. For 25-years we have worked with young people and their families offering long-term lasting support in four of the UK’s most underinvested in communities - Gosport, Fareham, Portsmouth, and Havant.
Motiv8 recognises that there are many factors which can lead to instability at home, a person needing support around their emotional health or wellbeing, or place young people and their families at increased risk of becoming involved in anti-social behaviour or crime. Through welcoming, warm youth hubs, trusted mentoring, empowering skills sessions, and programmes that engage our community we take a person-centred whole family approach. Building what is strong not what is wrong, and providing positive ‘life chances’ allowing all to thrive.
With our wards in the top 10% for UK deprivation, ‘Real Poverty’ is the reality for most with 92% of service users are now from socio-economic disadvantage. Against this backdrop acting early and offering the ‘Foundations, Flexibility, and Fun’ that is Motiv8’s trademark to those aged 9-19 has never been more important.
Foundations: Ensuring essential service costs that underpin and enable expert youth work are met;
Flexibility: Empowering teams, trusting their judgement so they can help each individual as a person;
Fun: Delivering activities that families tell us they value & young people share they want to be part of.
A best in class youth work provider - recognised nationally by organisations such as Children In Need, Barnardo’s and the National Youth Agency - we are embedded in our communities and committed to individuals. Motiv8's journey of change is a proven model. We keep things simple. With each strengthening the others, our 8 Strands have young people and flexibility at their heart and reinforcing our dedication to a quality whole person approach
Youth Mentoring
Youth Hubs
Youth Health and Wellbeing
Youth Skills
Youth Future
Youth and Family
Youth in Community
Youth Voice and Influence
Many organisations offer one or two elements, but few offer all of them, and fewer still offer them all well with a pathway to make the most of each.
We are committed to our communities. Motiv8 will always be there with the right support, delivered in the right way, at the right moment.
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