Web-based direct aid for care organisations such as food banks

我们的项目是加强社区支持服务，使个人和/或组织有可能直接支持和提供援助，以照顾和社区组织使用网站。在隔离和疏远的情况下，超市和其他社区中心的客流量减少，对社会中一些最脆弱的群体产生了影响-例如，人们直接将货物留在商店，捐赠给食品银行的物品减少。新闻中有充分的记录表明，许多护理组织都在努力应对隔离期间捐款减少的影响。我们正在创建一个网站，允许护理组织登记他们需要的商品和支持，并允许人们提供商品和承诺支持。例如，人们将能够购买由杂货店或超市运送到食品银行的特定物品，或从零售商或批发商购买到临终关怀的特定供应品，或承诺他们的时间跑腿或以其他方式支持养老院。重要的是，它还将提供正确的援助，只针对组织特别要求的项目，减轻这些组织筛选和处理慷慨但最终不需要的支持的压力。我们的网站使英国公众的慷慨和精神能够广泛传播到最需要的地方，突出那些接近“装满篮子”和/或支持最少的组织-目标是提供慈善机构的均匀分配，而不是看到一些备受喜爱和宣传良好的机构供应过剩，而其他机构则没有供应。我们也有许多方法来增加与公众的互动，允许人们在捐赠时获得不同类型的“徽章”，他们可以选择在社交媒体上分享，并允许组织向社交媒体分享特定的名单，以宣传自己的活动。当然，我们的项目网站提供了宝贵的资源，即使在孤立的时候，使其更容易提供有用的，实际的支持，直接向最需要的组织在任何时候。这可以包括节日期间，例如向难民署捐赠圣诞礼物，或为社区膳食和庆祝活动捐赠食品。

Our project is enhancing community support services by making it possible for individuals and/or organisations to directly support and provide aid to care and community organisations using a website. With reduced footfall to supermarkets and other community hubs during isolation and distancing scenarios, there is an impact on some of the most vulnerable in society -- e.g. fewer items are donated to food banks by people directly leaving goods in stores. It is well-documented in the news that many care organisations have struggled with the impact of lower donations during isolation. We are creating a website which allows care organisations to register what goods and support they need, and allow people to provide goods and pledge support. For instance people will be able to purchase specific items to be delivered by a grocer or supermarket to a food bank, or specific supplies from a retailer or wholesaler to a hospice, or pledge their time to run errands or otherwise support a retirement home. Importantly it will also provide the right aid, only targeting items that organisations are specifically requesting, relieving such organisations of the pressures of sifting through and dealing with generous but ultimately unwanted support. Our website enables the fantastic generosity and spirit of the British public to be spread widely to where it's needed most, highlighting organisations that are close to 'filling a basket' and/or have had least support -- the goal being to provide an even distribution of charity rather than seeing an oversupply to some well-loved and well-publicised institutions coupled with no supply to others. We also have a number of ways to increase engagement with the public, allowing people to receive different types of 'badges' when they donate which they may choose to share on social media, and allowing organisations to share specific lists to social media to drum up their own campaigns. Our project website of course provides a valuable resource even outside of times of isolation, making it easier to provide useful, practical support direct to the most needy organisations at all times. This can include around festivals, e.g. for donating Christmas gifts to refuges, or for donating food items for community meals and celebrations.