Aviva Cost of Living Boost has provided £1,285 of match funding
Beyond Food Mobile Outreach support
London, England, United Kingdom
Aim
Mobilise our life changing workshops to reach vulnerable people. To provide life changing skills, financial independence & escape isolation.
Beyond Food uses food to remove barriers that inhibit individuals from securing financial independence, freedom from isolation, and confidence to build better futures.
All our programmes help Individuals to focus on their future. Identify barriers to progression and helps individuals understand how to overcome and manage these. The programme helps increase self-awareness, personal leadership, and ownership - whilst developing aspirations for long-term change.
Our programmes currently run from our social enterprise restaurant The Brigade Bar & Kitchen, central London (SE1), where individuals receive hands-on and real-life opportunities that have a major impact. Beyond Food’s work sees 90% of people supported move into work or education.
We know that many individuals who need our support are unable to access it. For a variety of reasons: childcare, cost of travel, anxiety/confidence linked to new environments/travel as well as the fear associated with meeting new people or engaging in new activities. This funding will empower us to set up an outreach programme, with a mobile vehicle. Enabling us to work with individuals or smaller groups in their communities or already established networks of people, ie prisons, rehabilitation centres, food banks, women's groups, shelters, culturally established groups, gangs and youth justice networks as well as schools and pupil referral units for students outside of mainstream education.
Our small but mighty team of six people all have lived experience. Truly embedding beneficiary understanding and empathy.
The vision is a specially adapted vehicle that will enable the team to host a plethora of opportunities for individuals and small groups to engage in, such as:
- Drop-ins sessions to support the cost of living crisis
- Peer support groups with ex-offenders talking to students outside of education
- Workshops for financial advice; nutritional health and wellbeing
- Toolkits linked to our programme 'how to get a job and keep it'
- Specialist counselling and therapeutic groups
- Skills and confidence building workshop
Aviva Community Fund has provided £650 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 14th February 2023