New Beginnings Improving Lives C.I.C. (NBIL) said on January 28, 2026 that a community-led fundraiser had raised £2,887 to help provide food and other support for local residents. The organisation said the funds will be used to support its Community Store (pantry) and out-of-school and holiday clubs that provide food and activities for children and families in the area.
The funding was awarded to New Beginnings Improving Lives C.I.C., which offers social prescribing, advocacy and mental-health support to families across the Liverpool City Region. NBIL operates a community food store and mobile pantry where people can select groceries for a modest fee (the Live Well Directory lists the pantry model as ’10 items for £5′), a model designed to give people greater choice and dignity than a traditional emergency parcel system.
NBIL says part of the donation will go toward holiday and out-of-school clubs (including HAF programmes) that provide meals and a range of activities for children. NBIL also runs boxing sessions as part of its wider mental-health and wellbeing offer; however, a direct, source-verified link between boxing specifically being part of the youth holiday-club timetable was not found in the provided dossier and should be verified before asserting that boxing will be delivered as a youth activity under this grant.
The organisation was set up by Director and Founder Michelle Roach, a former NHS worker with lived experience of mental-health and financial crisis. Roach previously used a converted, roughly 30-year-old ice-cream van as a mobile pantry to deliver supplies to neighbourhoods — an initiative reported by the BBC and The Guardian in 2024. NBIL says the new donation will help meet continuing high demand for its services in Bootle, Anfield and across the Liverpool City Region.
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