SERVICE DETAILS
Our outreach services are delivered from the community flat located on the ground floor of Dunsyre House in the Calders area of Edinburgh.
A team of local staff and volunteers transport food parcels to the nearby community flat. We also offer our other support services while we are there to help improve people’s lives, like the Advice, Employability, Community Pantry projects.
We work out of the flat on Wednesdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm, and provide the following services:
- Foodbank
- Advice provision
- Hot lunch, tea and coffee
- Support services
Each individual who visits the project is also offered a hot lunch, and tea or coffee and a warm space to chat and relax.
Data from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation highlights the area is in the 5% most deprived in Scotland relating to health, education and income, and above 50% of residents are living in poverty.
Reason for access is varied, however, the primary reasons identified for the cohort are:
- Drug use, in particular the use of intravenous drugs
- Homelessness and vulnerable housing
- Intergenerational poverty
- Functional illiteracy
- Long term illness
- Financial crisis - including benefit sanctions, rent arrears and debt repayments or having no money left after payments
