 The Upper Room is a community charity project dedicated to the relief of poverty, suffering and social disadvantage in West London. In particular, it runs the Shepherd's Bush Families Project which offers employment opportunities to homeless people and provides a mobile meals service. The Upper Room also run a successful children's breakfast club on the White City Estate providing 50-60 nutritious meals a morning and sending children to school on a full stomach helping them to concetrate better in class.
LandAid provided a grant of £15,000 in 2006 to refurbish the kitchen and purchase a new van for their mobile meals service.
The new chiller van has had a big impact on the services the Upper Room provides to the community. They are now part of the 'Fareshare' food network and use the van to distribute surplus food from retailers such as the Whole Food Market to other homlessness charities who serve meals. It has also increased the amount of food they can pick up during their Harvest Festival Campaign from schools and churches which is distributed throughout the surrounding area to homeless and vulnerable adults.
The van is also going to be used to help teach ex offenders to drive and increase their chances of finding employment.
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