We are immensely grateful for having partner organisations working alongside us. So much of what we do would simply not be possible without their support, which we gladly acknowledge.
Scroll down the list to discover the many and varied organisations working with us. Clicking on the organisation name will take you to their web or social media page.
KingsGate Church is a key partner for VoH; they have supported us throughout our growth as a charity and at the start of lockdown the church building turned into a food storage and production centre almost overnight! It is the physical HQ for most of our project work, and we are deeply grateful to the Elders and Trustees of KingsGate Church for their generosity, without which relatively little would have been accomplished.
KingsGate is a brilliant local church and we're glad to acknowledge it.
KVA works towards a Kingston where communities are active, strong and connected.
KVA supports local voluntary and community sector groups to develop their skills, build their resources and amplify their voice. We are incredibly grateful for all their continued advice and support; and especially for their invaluable help in becoming a registered charity.
KCAH supports people facing housing crisis in the Kingston Borough enabling them to rebuild their lives.
Offering much more than just advice, shelter and food, KCAH provides lasting solutions that restore the self-esteem and confidence of vulnerable people, helping them out of the vicious circle of homelessness. We love working with KCAH and have increasingly found ourselves partnering over projects to impact the lives of people in Kingston.
Since the start of the outbreak VoH has developed an excellent working relationship with RBKuT, facilitating the establishment of the Kingston Food Hub and the distribution of meals to where it is most needed. But there are so many ways in which RBKuT has provided support, and continues to do so. We are hugely grateful!
John Lewis & Partners has generously supported VoH since the project began, not only financially but also through providing donations of foods, admin supplies and multiple, very needed, white goods to facilitate food storage and clothes washing. Even before the Covid crisis, we have had a growing relationship with John Lewis & Partners; singing in their stores, arranging flashmobs, planning events to support women in need.
Waitrose has generously supported VoH by providing ingredients that might otherwise go to waste so that we can prepare healthy cooked meals for isolated and vulnerable people throughout Kingston borough.
City Harvest puts surplus food to good use in a sustainable way, getting surplus food safely to the hungry. While thousands of Londoners go hungry each day, safe, healthy and usable food is being disposed of.
City Harvest collects this nutritious surplus food from all segments of the food industry including restaurants, grocers, manufacturers, wholesalers, hotels and caterers, and they have donated to VoH in a big way.
We have a great working relationship sharing surplus and donated food within the Borough. This helps us keep our costs down and reach many more people.
Throughout the pandemic, Big Smoke Brew Co. have been one of our biggest supporters, helping to supply hundreds of donated meals each week. They currently cover two days of meals at the Travelodge for those who are homeless.
AfC is a community interest company (a not-for-profit social enterprise) created in 2014 by the Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Richmond to provide their children’s services. In August 2017, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead became a co-owner of AfC, and now delivers children’s services across all three boroughs.
Its services in Kingston were judged 'outstanding' by Ofsted, following an inspection in October 2019.
Achieving for Children has teamed up with VoH and is a crucial part of the Brite Box delivery chain.
Across Kingston, the churches have been actively supporting many food insecurity responses including Food Bank, Grow Baby and ourselves at Voices of Hope. From donations of freezers and food, to drawing in volunteers, they have been a huge help!
Creating award-winning, internationally-inspired, vegetarian cuisine since 1989. Imaginative menu. Food with flavour. Cooked fresh. Winner of The Food Awards London 2016, and now supplying meals to the Kingston Food Hub!
KFB don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. They are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
Kingston Food Bank generously donates foodstuffs to help Kingston Food Hub to prepare and deliver healthy meals to the isolated and vulnerable of Kingston borough.
The Rotary Club have a wonderful way of looking out for local charities and organisations, coming alongside and supporting their work. We've been very grateful to receive several monetary donations from them and also to have the opportunity to speak at their gatherings on the work VoH is doing.
Cook makes and sells frozen meals that taste home-made because they use the same ingredients and take the same care that you would to give their customers the taste of home cooking without spending hours in the kitchen.
Now, through their generosity in supplying meals to the Kingston Food Hub, our clients can enjoy them too.
Morgan's is a family-owned dairy company that has been operating since 1947.
The dairy is one of the few flourishing Welsh independent dairies remaining in London and continues to run from the original premises in Aspenlea Road, Fulham, and, from January 2014, a second depot opened in Surbiton, Surrey, from where they generously provide dairy products to the Kingston Food Hub.
Poor Boys is a local independent restaurant started by two brothers who were inspired by the city of New Orleans, with the amazing atmosphere, culture and food – whose aim was to provide the great Southern Louisiana hospitality in a vibrant and friendly atmosphere.
Fortunately for us, they have been providing meals for the Kingston Food Hub too.
From the start of the Kingston Food Hub project, British Gas generously provided several vans and their drivers to deliver food throughout Kingston borough.
Started in 2001, the owner, executive chef, and many of the staff are Turkish and they have proudly drawn on their heritage to create a little corner of Turkey in the UK. Cappcdocia's food is cooked by chefs who were brought up with traditional Turkish cooking and who have been trained to the highest standards in Istanbul.
Now, thanks to the generosity of Cappadocia's owners, Kingston Food Hub clients can have an authentic Turkish meal delivered to their door by the Kingston Food Hub.
Nando's restaurant in Kingston has generously donated chicken for us to use in our recipes at the Kingston Food Hub and to give to our families in the Brite Box project. We are so grateful!
We are delighted to work with Sewa Day, who have a wonderful way of surprising us with the best of donations. Their help has ranged from one tonne of dates to beautifully made up hampers.
The Real Butchers is a family run business, based in New Malden, Surrey, with a proud 30 year history. Started by husband and wife duo Roland and Anne Head back in 1983, their son, Laurence, is now part of the business too. The company sources its products from original herds bred only for meat, and that have no history of BSE. The products are therefore all of the highest quality, making them appropriate for a wide range of customer requirements.
We are grateful for the high-quality food forwarded to VoH for use in our food preparation.
The Gazebo is a Samuel Smith's-owned bar overlooking the river Thames in Kingston. They proudly serving products that only use 100% natural ingredients!
During lockdown, they allowed us unlimited access to their restaurant walk-in fridge and freezer. This allowed us take large surplus donations and avoid much food wastage and expense.
Established in 2008, Mustard Foods business model was based on delivering to 32 restaurant groups around the UK, but this all stopped on 23rd March 2020 when the lockdown began.
But far from this being a moment of defeat, the owners quickly produced an online presence, creating four different frozen meal boxes. But they didn't stop there.
Mustard began distributing frozen meals/food to the NHS and also to other deserving causes, VoH included!
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General
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Website management
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PRIVACY POLICY
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Definitions and interpretation
In this privacy policy the following definitions are used:
Data |
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Data Protection Laws |
Any applicable law relating to the processing of personal Data, including but not limited to the Directive 96/46/EC (Data Protection Directive) or the GDPR, and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, for as long as the GDPR is effective in the UK. |
GDPR |
The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 |
Voices of Hope |
The owner and operator of the Website voh.org.uk |
we or us |
Voices of Hope |
User or you |
Any third party that accesses the Website and is not either (i) employed by Voices of Hope and acting in the course of their employment or (ii) engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to Voices of Hope and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services |
Website |
The website that you are currently using, voh.org.uk, and any sub-domains of this site unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions |
2. In this privacy policy, unless the context requires a different interpretation:
a. the singular includes the plural and vice-versa
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c. a reference to a person includes firms, companies, government entities, trusts and partnerships
d. “including” is understood to mean “including without limitation”
e. reference to any statutory provision includes any modification or enhancement of it
f. the headings and sub-headings do not form part of this privacy policy
Scope of this privacy policy
3. This privacy policy applies only to the actions of Voices of Hope and Users with respect to this Website. It does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this Website including, but not limited to, any links we may provide to social media websites.
4. For purposes of the applicable Data Protection Laws, Voices of Hope is the “data controller”. The means that Voices of Hope determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which, your Data is processed.
How we collect Data
5. We collect Data in the following ways:
a. data is given to us by you, and
b. data is collected automatically
Data that is given to us by you
6. Voices of Hope will collect your Data in a number of ways, for example when you contact us through the Website, by telephone, post or email, or through any other means; in each case in accordance with this privacy policy.
Data that is collected automatically
7. To the extent that you access the Website, we will collect your Data automatically. For example we automatically collection some information about your visit to the Website. This information helps us to make improvements to the Website content and navigation, and includes your IP address, the dates, times and frequency with which you access the Website and the way you use and interact with its Content.
Keeping Data Secure
8. We will use technical and organisational measure to safeguard your Data. For example access to your Data is controlled by a username and password that is unique to you, and we store your Data on secure servers.
9. Technical and organisational measure include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuser loss of unauthorised access to your Data, please let us know immediately by contacting us at webmaster@voh.org.uk.
10. If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and other online problems, visit getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
Data retention
11. Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your Data on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that the Data be deleted.
12. Even if we delete your Data, it may persist on backup or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.
Your rights
13. You have the following rights in relation to your Data:
a. Right to access - the right to request (i) copies of the information we hold about you at any time, or (ii) that we modify, update or delete such information. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive”. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reason(s) why.
b. Right to correct - the right to have your Data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete
c. Right to erase - the right to request that we delete or remove your Data from our systems
d. Right to restrict our use of your Data - the right to “block” us from using your Data or limit the way in which we can use it.
e. Right to data portability - the right to request that we move, copy our transfer your Data
f. Right to object - the right to object to our use of your Data including where we use it for our legitimate interests
14. To make enquiries, exercise any of your rights set out above, or withdraw your consent to the processing of your Data (where consent is the legal basis for processing your Data), please contact us at info@voh.org.uk.
15. If you are not satisfied with the way a complaint you make in relation to your Data is handled by us, you may be able to refer your complaint to the relevant data protection authority. For the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO contact details may be found on their website https://ico.org.uk.
16. It is important that the Data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Data changes during the period during which we hold it.
Links to other websites
17. This Website may, from time to time, provide links to other websites. We have no control over such websites and are not responsible for the content of these websites. The privacy policy does not extend to your use of such websites. You are advised to read the privacy policy or statement of other websites prior to using them.
Changes of business ownership and control
General
18. You may not transfer any of your rights under this privacy policy to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these terms and conditions where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.
19. If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of this privacy policy (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this privacy policy will not be affected.
20. Unless otherwise agreed, no delay, act or omission by a party in exercising any right or remedy will be deemed a waiver or that, or any other, right or remedy.
21. This Agreement shall be governed by, and interpreted, according to the law of England and Wales. All disputes arising under the Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction or the English or Welsh courts.
Changes to this privacy policy
22. Voices of Hope reserves the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be posted on the Website as soon as practicable and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of the Website following any such changes.
Website management
23. This Website is managed and operated by the Webmaster of Voices of Hope who can be contacted by email at webmaster@voh.org.uk.
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