The primary mission of this project is to address the ‘gaps’ in service provision for the street homeless. The Right2Eat project aims to ensure that food charity reaches some of London's most vulnerable groups. The project aims to achieve our objectives by providing an outreach food service.
Our Values
We believe that everyone has a right to eat and people living on the streets of London should always have access to food
We believe in equality of opportunity and access to food for all street homeless persons
We aim to improve the health and well-being of London's street homeless community by providing access to food for the most vulnerable individuals
Our main goal is to be a catalyst for change by identifying street homeless people who are not meeting their basic subsistence needs in terms of food. We offer food provision and aim to increase access to food resources for street homeless people.
Our Food Response service is a community-led meals on wheels service that involves visiting areas in central London identified as street homelessness ‘hotspots’ where we distribute ready made meals or food packs to street homeless persons. The food packs contain foods in accordance with NHS guidelines for the recommended daily nutritional requirement for adults (i.e., a mix of carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins etc). See the following recommendation which is likely that in the vast majority of cases street homeless persons are not getting anywhere near those daily requirements. The Right2Eat aims to address this problem and work with local food businesses or supermarkets by putting together nutritional food packs. To learn more read our full report by clicking here or alternatively listen to our voice report below.
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Young Minds
Through our Young Minds project we aim to engage and support young people up to the age of 25 who are experiencing food deprivation or intergenerationalinequality. We also support young people who are either homeless or at risk of being homeless as well as those who have had direct contact with the criminal justice system but have little to no support network in terms of family or freinds. Some of the support we offer involves practical support and advocacy in terms of helping individuals to enter the education system with reagrds to planning and submitting applications or helping individuals to engage their local authority through assistance with filling out any relevant forms or gathering information if they are applying for temporary accomodation. We also provide food support for young people experiencing food insecurity who have little to no income to meet their basic food requirements.To learn more read our full report by clicking here or alternatively listen to our voice report below.
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Through our Young Minds project we have launched the 'Hidden Voices' early intervention initiative which provides emotional-well being and motivational support to any young person experiencing problems related to their mental health. Depending on the needs of the individual this is done through either face-to-face contact, email or telephone counselling. A central feature of the Hidden Voices initiative is that it provides young people with a therapeutic online platform where they can discuss their experiences digitally. It is intended to have the effect of esteem building whilst making the material accessible to others who may be having a similar experience who may find it helpful and educational. If the individual is experiencing more acute mental health problems that requires an intervention beyond the scope of our service then we will refer the individual to professional clinical agencies but we will continue to offer our core service to the individual if they require additional support. To learn more read our full report by clicking here or alternatively listen to our voice report below.
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If you would like to see an example of how we are helping young talented people through our Hidden Voices initiative who are overcoming mental health difficulties to express themselves online digitally then click here to read or listen to the first part of Orla-Maeve's story.
Lone Parents
Single parent families are on the rise in the UK. Single parents still make up around a quarter of families with children in the UK, making single
parents the second most common family type with dependent children. The typical single parent
is in their late 30s and early 40s, and most have just one or two children. This is particulary true for those from black and mixed ethnic backgrounds with one in four (24.3%) of black households and one in five (19.1%) of mixed households were single parent families. Whilst there is a clear focus in our Lone Parents project we actively seek to support single parent families from all backgrounds with food assistance in the form of ready made meals or food vouchers etc. To learn more you can read the following article Single Parents in 2023 or you can read our full report by clicking here. Alternatively, you can listen to our voice report below.
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Work with Us
If your an organisation that shares similar values or is undertaking similar work within the wider community and would like to partner with us then we would love to hear from you. Equally, if you are an organisation that likes our reports and would like to commission us to produce a report for your organisation on any topic either in text or as a voice report using our artificial intelligence software then you can Contact us for more information.
We are open to referrals including self-referrals so if you are a young person or know a young person who is experiencing mental health difficulties and would like support from us then please don't hesistate to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.