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Leeds Outreach (formerly The Leeds Welfare Cooperative) was established in 1994 by 7 area Leeds pastors who wanted to provide assistance to people throughout the community in one central place. Thirty years later we continue to provide assistance and the need for assistance continues.
LEEDS OUTREACH
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2023
John O'Neil - President
Hugh Lee - Vice President
Susan Bertani - Secretary
Ron Whitehead -Treasurer
Beverly Riddlesperger -Director
Marlyn Strong - Member
Spurgeon Marchant - Member
Sandra McGuire - Member
Leeds Outreach is a 501c3 Christian organization operated solely by volunteers. . Since we have no paid staff, rent, or other bills, 100% of your donation goes directly to assisting hurting people throughout the community. We believe it is important to partner and work alongside the local churches and businesses to help meet these needs.
We would like for you to know that durin g the 2023.....
Through the assistance of Walmart and Publix, we recovered, 62,006 pounds of food for our clients that would have otherwise been disposed of! We began receiving a generous milk delivery each week through the Central Alabama Food Bank. An additional food delivery from Publix became available to us for our Wednesday distribution.
A second refrigerator was purchased for our pantry.
A grant from HUD/ADECA assisted in lowering our pantry expenses.
HOW YOU HELPED US SERVE OUR COMMUNITY IN 2023
What We Spent:
Pantry Items $14,271.83
Christmas 9,089.25
School Supplies 12,094.42
Utilities 44,847.32
Medicine 153.55
Fuel 100.00
Special Circumstance 809.36
Who and How We Served:
Utility assistance for 470 households.
Total of 3147 food boxes given.
Provided food for 8073 individuals.
We were open 211 days.
We began the year distributing approximately 55 food boxes on Wednesdays which increased to 80 boxes by the end of 2023 .
SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE
A major project for us each summer is our School Supplies Drive.
In 2022 we were able to assist 111 kids with a complete list of needed supplies and required school fees. Many hours went into this endeavor, but in return, many were given all they needed for the classroom to begin fall semester. Thanks to all who donated and worked on this!
In 2023 we were humbled by support of sponsors which allowed us to give 201 children of our Leeds community, ages 2 - 18, a happier Christmas.
Again, we thank our ongoing sponsors and welcome our new sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring one of our children please contact us at leedsoutreach@gmail.com, We can’t make our program work without amazing sponsors.
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