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Community Support

Essential Support Packs

Food and essentials for households facing a hard period, planned and delivered with local volunteers.

Program area
Community Support
Volunteers in gloves packing donation boxes at a table

Community Support

Essential Support Packs

  • Program area

    Community Support

The challenge

Illness, the loss of work or a sudden emergency can leave a household without the basics. Support that arrives quickly — and respectfully — can stop a hard month from becoming a crisis.

What this work focuses on

  • Packs of food and everyday essentials
  • Delivery to households who cannot easily travel
  • Connecting families with longer-term support

How the work is approached

Support is given with dignity: discreetly, and with choice wherever possible.

Local volunteers, who know their neighbourhoods, help plan who is reached and follow up afterwards.

What it aims to change

  • Households supported through a difficult period
  • Families connected to services that can help further
  • A volunteer network ready to respond

Part of our program area

Community Support — Strengthening communities through advocacy, resources and partnerships.

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