We are a community hub that caters for lonely and isolated members for our local residence in Bridgend, South Wales. We distribute food for those in need. We offer support advice and guidance as well as signposting to other organizations.  We hold weekly social activities to combat loneliness. Tuesday’s are Read more [...]

  ONE DAY FREE OF POVERTY across the whole of North Essex “As I was getting out of my car to deliver the Christmas hampers. The father of the family was walking towards his house. He was very upset he had just returned from trying to borrow just a little Read more [...]

Veterans In Crisis Sunderland (VICs) was set up by it’s founder, Ger Fowler in 2018. He used his own money, had a £10 pay as you go mobile phone and based himself in Greggs within Sunderland City Centre as a very makeshift office. Ger founded VICs as he was diagnosed Read more [...]

GAZ is a small charity that provides services and activities for children and young people in Grimethorpe, Barnsley.   We decide our priorities through looking at research, consultation with the community and from our own knowledge of the area.  The services we currently provide are after school and school holiday activity Read more [...]

A street by street collection scheme to provide disadvantaged families with food and household goods

UK national network of small ethical food businesses set up to support alternatives to the damaging mainstream food system, to amplify the voice of the sector and to collate evidence and data to prove the case for a better food system.

We provide practical support, advice, training and networking to community action groups in Devon who are doing all sorts of great things around waste reduction and sustainability in their communities.   Groups run community larders, surplus food cafes, tree planting, beach cleans and litter picks, repair cafes and much more.

GAZ is a small charity that works with children and young people aged 8 – 21 in the community of Grimethorpe, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.  Our aim is to provide free services and activities that help local children and young people overcome the effects of living in a deprived area and Read more [...]

We supporting older people in our community to stay healthy and independent during and beyond the current health crisis. Currently we are delivering hot meals to around 25 people daily.

Imagine a go to place just like Amazon but only for amazing food from the very best growers, rearers, fishermen and foragers. Well that’s what we’ve tried to achieve with www.bibble.uk   The whole concept is centered around Locality; shortening the distance between buyers and sellers and putting local food Read more [...]

The online events have been designed to enable people to gain an advantage in sustainability within their professional field.

Horsham Matters is a charity that provides crisis support in our local community by running the Horsham District Foodbank, the winter Night Shelter for the homeless and providing home ‘starter packs’ of furniture for people who have been newly housed from homeless. In response to Covid-19 we focused our charitable Read more [...]

We are asking for £500 to use for care packages, shopping and specialist equipment for isolated people living with sight loss in Southampton. We have over 750 people living with sight loss registered on our database. People living with sight loss are often already isolated, lonely and depressed and it Read more [...]

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The Oasis Community Gardens is a project which has been developed on a 2 acre site in Worksop, Nottinghamshire by a group of volunteers.  The site now has over 30 areas including growing spaces, play areas, specialist planting beds and polytunnels, raised beds and a dome greenhouse.  It is now Read more [...]

Walk INN Foodbank is here to help individuals and families in crisis by providing free emergency food as well as support until the appropriate agencies are in a position to assist. Tinned and dried food is collected from the public at supermarkets and “banked” in a our store. Food is Read more [...]

At SUA Foodbank, we don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. SUA Foodbank is committed to providing our service to those in need.  Read more [...]

Monthly gardening club with the focus on practising permaculture to create a diverse edible and useful garden outside a church on Brockley Rise.

We are Lifeafterhummus Community Benefit Society, a grassroots BME-Led Society and a member of the Co-operatives UK. We are located at Somers Town Community Association. We applied to the Regents Place Community Fund to improve the health of local families and tackle health inequalities and improve social cohesion, reduce social Read more [...]

Hands of Hope is a community-charity set up in 2016 by the current Trustees. Combining natural & community heritage we are currently restoring and developing a derelict a neglected walled kitchen garden and 22 acres of AONB land in Kent with the aim of teaching people and their communities’ practical Read more [...]

The Hub garden is a small kitchen garden on the back of the Library at the Hub Community centre in Hounslow ,which is attended by local families using the community centre and sure start drop in Originally the garden was a resource for growing fresh vegetables for the community cafe Read more [...]

The breakfast club has been running for ten years and provides breakfast for anyone who is homeless or without an income. We regularly feed between 30-50 people a week providing cereal with toast or beans on toast. Hot drink and a takeaway pasty or sausage roll. We also give out Read more [...]

Fortnightly on Tuesdays from 11am-1pm, we host a veterans’ brunch club. Open to all, there is a selection of food available, free to veterans, and only £3.50 for any other attendees. We work with similar projects in our area, supporting each other and synchronising schedules to help boost attendance where Read more [...]

We love improving green space, project after project, here at Christchurch School Community Garden. We aim to create a beautiful space filled with colour and wildlife, one plant at a time. Since we started in October 2017, we have welcomed hundreds of visitors on our weekly Open Fridays and Weekend Read more [...]

Community @NE66 was founded in January 2017  and is a Community and Youth Development Project based at  the Alnwick Community Centre in Alnwick Northumberland.  Our organisation recognises that both individual and community well being is underpinned by healthy relationships, whether these are with oneself, family members, partners, peers or the Read more [...]

The garden works with nature to create a great place for people and wildlife to enjoy. The garden is about our community, whether in Scotswood and Benwell or the wider area, and we welcome people of all ages and backgrounds to get involved in our work. This can be as Read more [...]

Growing Communities is an award-winning social enterprise based in Hackney, east London. We run a weekly organic fruit and veg box scheme and the all-organic Growing Communities farmers’ market. We grow food on our Patchwork Farm in Hackney, made up of several small urban market gardens, and Dagenham Farm. We Read more [...]

We currently run bi-weekly cooking and social activity sessions on Friday’s from 4.30pm until 6.30pm. These sessions involve cooking and eating a healthy meal from scratch as a group, learning new skills and techniques and enjoying everyone’s company. This is open to anyone who needs some additional help with cooking, Read more [...]

Our aim is to reach out to the local community by offering people who are lonely or struggling to make ends meet or vulnerable and the disabled the chance to learn how our community hub operates and offer them the chance to take part in our future activities We would Read more [...]

Alley Pals is a small community group that meets to develop green spaces for food growing and shared social events in the Gresham and Linthorpe areas.  We work within people’s back alleys, we have a small shared space known as Essex Square and we have an allotment plot at People’s Read more [...]

Free Cakes for Kids Southampton is part of the Free Cakes for Kids network which has over 60 groups under the national umbrella in most parts of the UK. The Southampton group is a volunteer led community organisation who bake birthday cakes for children, who live within the City of Read more [...]

Dulwich Vegetable Garden (DVG) was established in 2009 to encourage anyone interested to learn how to grow their own produce. The garden is behind Rosebery Lodge at the far end of Dulwich Park, adjacent to Dulwich Riding School on Dulwich Common.  We grow fruit and veg organically within the limitations Read more [...]