John Storer Charnwood

John Storer Charnwood is supported by the Randal Charitable Foundation

John Storer Charnwood is an independent charity based in Leicestershire.

Its base is a multi-use community centre and well-being hub (John Storer House), providing a range of activities promoting well-being and a community café that supports individuals’ needs for good nutrition, company and social interaction, in the borough of Charnwood.

It has award-winning therapeutic allotments at its Mountfields site and supported lunch clubs in the House during the week as well as well-being sessions including craft, cooking, drama and choir.

Its usual clients are predominantly older people, people with a disability and the more vulnerable members of our society.


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As a Strategic Partner of Charnwood Borough Council, John Storer Charnwood also has a wider role in the borough. It provides a range of volunteering opportunities within JSC that maintain inclusive participation and embrace all abilities and advertises opportunities for other Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) groups, signposting potential volunteers where possible. It hosts the VCS Forum, a quarterly meeting where organisations can come together to discuss the issues affecting the sector and also sources and hosts reasonably priced training open to VCS groups throughout the borough.

In March 2020, in line with Government guidelines regarding social distancing because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the community centre shut to the public.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, it has been working with Charnwood Borough Council and other VCS organisations under the umbrella of  Charnwood Community Action.

The hub is based at John Storer House and one of its functions is to be the main foodbank for the whole of Charnwood; it soon became apparent that the established network of foodbanks would be unable to cope due to both the increase in demand and the fact that many of their usual volunteers fell into the vulnerable category. We have since the beginning of the Covid –19 outbreak delivered over 3000 parcels.

In 2020 the Randal Charitable Foundation provided grant funding during the Coronavirus pandemic and lockdown to support the charity to supplement its food parcels to 1,000 individuals facing extreme hardship for 10 weeks.

You can see more of what the charity does by visiting here

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