Broxtowe Community Projects

Who we are

Broxtowe Community Projects (BCP) is a small charity (registered in England and Wales, number 1195969) based in Beeston working across the geographical borough council area of Broxtowe (NG9 and NG16 postcodes) to alleviate poverty, isolation and hardship. Our primary service is a foodbank but we also deliver language classes,free social meals, pay-as-you-feel community meals, cooking classes and pay-as-you-feel food waste prevention public stall outside on the highstreet on Saturday mornings. BCP was founded in 2020 and we’re in our fourth year of operations and experience of supporting people in financial crisis - which means housing insecurity, relationship strains, food poverty and inability to feed yourself and your children. We are looking to expand our services to better meet these local people's needs, for example, a community supermarket, for which we have already secured seed funding, community activities, events and day trips that improve the lives of disadvantaged children and adults. Like most small charities BCP relies on fundraising to survive, mainly from grants made by charitable trusts and other organisations, and these funders want to know that their funds are being put to the best use, and for us to demonstrate how BCP has consulted and co-developed our projects in partnership with service users and the wider community

Our culture and values

We beleive that no one should face the indignity of not being able to afford to keep food on the table, heat and power their homes or be unable to access the richness a social life and being part of a community brings.

We believe that even when facing hardship people should have the dignity of choice over which foods they can access in a food parcel- which is why we provide options for our service users and enable them to express preferences.

We believe being in food hardship does not mean you should not be able to acess food which is compatible with your culture, faith, health status, perosnal beliefs or neurodiveristy which is why we strive to provide a variety of culturally and dietry appropriate foods.

We believe no one in Broxtowe should go hungry or have to ask several people for a referral to acess help which is why we are slef refferal.

We belive communities are best placed to know what support they need and what the solutions are to their struggles which is why we directy involve service users in service delivery and design and regularly consult our members on what we could do better to support them in finding a way out of lonliness and poverty.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We are neurodiverse friendly and welcome and support people from diverse backgrounds- we do not discrimate in teh basis of any cfharateristic and welcome all people to work and volunteer with us and to access oir services. We ensure that all stakeholders are treated fairly and with respect and take all breaches of our equality policies seriously and deal with infridgements swiftly. We are led by a board of Trutees which includes neuro diverse, disabled, Bame, LGBT and Female leaders and we are always looking for ways to become more inclusive and welcoming.