12 August 2019
Beaver Community Trust which is based in The Willow Centre provides early years care and education to low income children and families in Ashford, Kent. In comparison to other areas in the county, Ashford has experienced the sharpest increase in poverty in recent years, with some areas in the town ranked among the 7% most deprived in Kent.
22 July 2019
House of Bread was launched ten years ago to provide home-cooked meals for homeless and vulnerable people in Stafford, and in the decade since has expanded to run a food bank as well – increasingly to families and single parents. Will says that, in his experience, food insecurity in Stafford is rising – with the number of parcels handed out having risen threefold since January.
10 July 2019
St Matthews Children’s Action Group receives regular deliveries of healthy snacks and food from FareShare East Midlands over the summer. It’s part of a network of nine free, open access holiday play projects across the city of Leicester which, last year, served up a total of 32,000 meals.
27 June 2019
KPC Youth is a charitable organisation in Bridgend working with children, young people and their families. The charity receives regular food deliveries from FareShare Wales for its community café where they serve a range of healthy snacks and meals for those accessing their services.
24 June 2019
This week is Learning Disability Week (June 17 – 23), so we’re catching up with Café Leep. Tucked away on a business park in Leeds, the café is part of Leep 1, a group for people with learning disabilities in Leeds. The project runs an advocacy group, training sessions, and plenty of fun, sociable activities for its members.
26 February 2019
148 vulnerable people have signed up to Food for Life, a Bradford food and community project, since it launched just in July 2018. That number becomes even more staggering when including the dependents of service users, with the total number of people benefitting rising to 350.
