Food clubs, pantries and foodbank information
How it Works…
Food is donated
All food given out by foodbanks is donated. Often this is from schools, churches, businesses, individuals, or through supermarket collections. Supermarket collections help foodbanks engage the public. Foodbank volunteers offer shoppers a foodbank shopping list and ask them to buy an extra item with their shop. This food is then handed to volunteers waiting beyond the checkout who pack it before it is taken to the foodbank warehouse for further sorting and storage.
Food is sorted and stored
At the warehouse, volunteers weigh and sort the donated food according to type and ‘best before date’. They also check it is undamaged and suitable for use before packing it into boxes for storage.
Frontline professionals identify people in need
Professionals from statutory and voluntary organisations such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, Citizens Advice Bureau staff, welfare officers, the police and probation officers, identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher.
Clients receive emergency food
Clients bring their voucher to a foodbank centre where it can be exchanged for three days supply of emergency food. The list of foods in each parcel have been designed by dieticians to provide recipients with nutritionally balanced food. Some foodbanks run a delivery service, to get emergency food to clients living in rural areas and those who are unable to get to a foodbank.
Clients are signposted to further support
Whilst their food is being packed, Foodbank volunteers will sit and chat with clients over a cup of tea or hot meal. This enables them to hear their stories and signpost them to agencies who can offer additional help and begin to resolve any underlying problems.
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For enquiries, please contact us on:
info@manchestersouthcentral.foodbank.org.uk
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Feed Manchester is a non-profit organisation, run by the people, for the people. Our aim is to give back to people less fortunate than ourselves by raising awareness, taking action to reduce poverty & improving human life.
One cold November evening two friends delivered 14 cups of hot soup to the homeless along Deansgate. Since then we have grown phenomenally and now work week in, week out!
With the help of 130 amazing volunteers we have delivered almost 10,000 meals!!
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Food on our doorstep: Whalley Range Food Club
Cost of Living Crisis – Whalley Range – Where to Get HelpCall JNR8 for a referral to the Foodbank at these venues: Monday 1pm – 3pm Whalley Range Methodist Church 51 Withington Road Wednesday 1pm – 3pm St Bride’s Church St Brides Way Friday 1pm – 3pm Ascension Church 282 Stretford Road Hulme M15 5TQ In order to get a food parcel you will need to be referred JNR8 is a voucher referrer: call 0161 881 3744 Food and Support
The Bread & Butter Thing: shopping bags £7.50 for family/£4 for individual-at least £35 worth of food. Text 07860 063304 with full name, postcode, and name of hub you will collect from Compassion Foodbank, 300 Moss Lane East M14 4LB – Fridays 11am – 1pm Mad Dogs Homeless project: support to the homeless, especially rough sleepers. Volunteer cooks always appreciated. Call 07591 571555 Barakah Food Aid: set up to help those in need of food in our local communities. Call 07506 527523 Volunteers welcomed. Tibetan Kitchen: free meal for people in need: based at 254 Upper Chorlton Road. Call 0161 881 1966 Feed my city (FMC) Foundation Emergency Food Charity providing try food bags and hot meals to those most need. Feed My City Emergency food charity food van and parcels. 03003 653101 Humans of Manchester Community Grocers, Supporting communities with access to fresh groceries without supermarket prices, delivered direct to your door. Yearly membership £5, weekly groceries cost depending on size of your household starts at single person £6.75. Call: 0161 243 0171 https://humansmcr.org/grocers/ Healthy Start If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy |
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