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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

On The Breadline: Rare moments of comfort ‘offer prospect of hope’ as rising costs hit families

Healing hands: Therapy 4 Healing’s Jayden gives Mandy a massage at St Peter’s Church, Brockley

(Picture: ES Composite)

For those at the forefront of the cost-of-living crisis, Therapy 4 Healing’s services can offer a rare moment of comfort. The group provides health and wellbeing facilities from pop-up clinics at churches and community centres as well as its headquarters in Forest Hill, Lewisham.

Among its offerings are a massage service in partnership with St Peter’s Church in Brockley, where a social supermarket, a type of food bank where disadvantaged people get fresh food at highly subsidised prices, takes place on a Wednesday afternoon.

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