Food for the homeless and vulnerable (360G-CheshireCF-A584577)

The Lighthouse Centre provide regular weekly, hot cooked food, and food parcels; clothes; shower facilities; emotional support; advice; sign posting and counselling for the homeless and those suffering with addictions and mental health disorders, causing social isolation. The project will deliver twice weekly hot food and food parcels, during Covid-19 crisis and cold weather conditions, with support for those living on the edge of society, sometimes ex-offenders with complex, chaotic lives and suffering severe mental health disorders and often with alcohol and drug addictions. The grant will pay for food supplies, toiletries, shower and laundry supplies, overnight emergency accommodation. The individuals accessing the current support struggle to engage with other agencies under normal circumstances; furthermore, the Covid-19 situation affects their ability to salvage or scavenge for food from restaurant waste and food offered by the goodwill of passing people in the streets, parks, rail stations, bus stations and other usually populated public spaces causing their health to further deteriorate; they are becoming suicidal and some have already taken their own lives, therefore this work will help save lives.