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Although we started in London, we have been offering Counselling in Croydon since 2015 and currently based in Croydon. We will now like to support our community more by supporting with practical advice and tools like food via weekly wellbeing support groups / workshops to the Croydon Community. In Croydon 1 in 6 adults (67,000 people) has a mental health condition at any one time, this is costly to the wards, borough and wider society and 1 in 4 young people are struggling with emotional trauma and mental health problems. We will like to support local familes, schools, young people and their parents / main carer to be more resilient, motivated, and empowered to make right decisions and have positive outlook on their future. During this pandemic of Covid19, there is a massive fear of shortage of food, affecting the community and families we offer emotional health support to. We are still offering Psychotherapy / Counselling support by offering email counselling, telephone counselling and face to face via Zoom. We will like to still support families emotionally and practically by supporting with food.

Our organisation base all Borough in England for homelessness, Disabilities, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Domestic violence, Youth and Adult in needs. We provide accommodation for homelessness through our Outreach workers and through Borough Councils. We provides our clients food as-well as daily needs through assessments and key work meeting by allocating support worker/ project worker as the person to speak with and support them at all time. Our Organisation provides everything needed for their day to day of their recovery including benefits and housing needs. There is Housing benefits for individual when qualify for accommodations under our organisation which staff will apply for, to pay direct to Landlord. We do collect both food and household goods from Aldi, M&S and Lidl. I would advice to search for St Mungos organisation for more details of what we do in our communities Best Wishes Grace Olatunji. Locum Project Worker Haringey Hope Horizon St Mungos organisation 530-532 West Green Road, London N15 3DU TEL: 02088882116 Email: grace.Olatunji@mungos.org Neighbourly We are running a 'cookery course', a 'tea and toast drop-in', and a 'lunch club' for our service users. Food donations will be used to support these services.

Since 2010 our Storehouse food bank has served over 50,000 free meals to local people in Hackney needing food support. This includes the homeless, working people on low income, the unemployed, people with disabilities and long-term health conditions (including mental health, autistic spectrum, learning disabilities) families, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, veterens, ex-prisoners, older people, the marginalised , lonely isolated, and struggling with substance misuse. The food we provide comes through donations from three Tesco stores, Sainsbury’s, Lidl, Aldi and cooked food from three local Caribbean restaurants. There are three main volunteering roles 1: Kitchen: Volunteers will be packing the cooked food from the Caribbean restaurants (curry goat, jerk chicken, rice and peas etc) into individual takeaway containers. There will also be general cleaning and washing up. 2: Food and clothing bank: Volunteers will be setting up tables in the hall to display ambient and fresh food donations which range from milk, tinned food, fruit and Vegetables, cereals, the Caribbean food, toiletries etc, and clothing Your role would also involve portioning and repackaging food into food bags and serving our service users. There are also food parcels to be put together and delivered to older people on foot who live nearby. Volunteers may also prepare and serve refreshments (hot and cold drinks, biscuits and cakes). There will also be general cleaning and moving tables so that the hall is ready for other groups to use. Kitchen and Food Bank Volunteers will need to arrive for 10.30am and stay until 12.30pm Sundays only. 3: Volunteer Drivers: needed for pick up slots between 08.00 to 11:00 on Sundays to collect food donations from different supermarket stores and Caribbean restaurants located in Hackney and Bethnal Green. We will provide verification for drivers to show staff when making food collections. Volunteers will have access to go in the stores to collect the food even when the stores are closed to the public. The volunteer drivers will know by Saturday evening where they will be going to collect the food for the Sunday morning. Once the food is collected it will then be brought to the hall to be sorted and the driver stay to give out the food to our service users. Storehouse welcomes corporate and other groups wishing to volunteer as a one-off or on a regular basis. Storehouse also offers volunteering opportunities to young people aged 14-24 including those completing the Duke of Edinburgh Award. This volunteering role requires a good command of English. The benefits of volunteering are that you will enhance your sense of self-worth. It can also be added to your CV to improve your employment prospects. After 3 months of continuous volunteering Storehouse can provide references for you. Volunteers are welcome to refreshments while they are volunteering and can access food/clothing bank items at the discretion of the management.