We provide a warm, welcoming place for everyone, free food for people to fill their fridges and cupboards, plus finance and debt courses. St Mark's and St Philip's churches run free food markets and coffee mornings every week, and monthly community lunches.
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Food insecurity and financial pressures. Our volunteers collect food that's still in-date but past the point supermarkets would put it on sale, and pass it on to anyone that needs it - for free. We provide a warm, welcoming place for everyone, and the chance for people to fill their fridges and cupboards with free food. Anyone can take any of the food, they don't need to be referred to the market or have a voucher. Our churches also act as warm spaces in the Winter months.
Alongside the warm space and free food, we also help people improve their financial wellbeing. With help from Christians Against Poverty, we are running debt management courses. We also provide support with filling out forms for benefits, visas, job applications, college applications etc. We work with Purple Shoots to help people become self-reliant, discover routes into work, and start their own businesses. We'll also provide Christmas hampers with toiletries and food staples (rice, pasta etc).


