MCR South-Central Foodbank Collection
Collecting in donations of food for a Manchester foodbank
MCR South-Central Foodbank Collection
Collecting in donations of food for a Manchester foodbank
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About this session
Please read below and let me know which shift (morning or afternoon) you would like to help out with.
Details of the day
- Location: Tesco Extra, Chester Road M32 0QW
- Date: Saturday 28th November
- Shift times: 10am -1pm or 1pm-4pm
- On arrival: We will be situated in the main entrance to the supermarket. All volunteers must sign in and out at the customer service desk. If you are travelling by vehicle, please register your number plate with customer service to avoid parking penalties.
- Clothing: Please wear comfortable shoes and clothes to suit the weather. The entrance is covered but not heated.
We have signed up to help out at a foodbank donation day at the big Tesco Extra on Chester Road in Stretford to engage the general public to collect food donations for the winter rush for Manchester South-Central. We have done foodbank runs for them before and they are a pro-active group trying to help local people.
We will be handing out leaflets, advising on the best items to donate, and raising awareness about the foodbank and how people can help. All this while collecting donations, thanking the public, and sorting the donations ready to go back to the foodbank for distribution.
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Manchester South Central Foodbank opened in April 2014 in response to the need for a foodbank that covered the Hulme, Moss Side, Whalley Range and Old Trafford areas. These are some of the most deprived areas in Greater Manchester, which is an area with a high level of poverty. With a child population of about 600,000, roughly 41.7% of children are living in poverty in the region. We are therefore a small but busy foodbank, in the 2023/2024 financial year we supported 4997 individuals with a food parcel. The Foodbank is operated by the Registered Charity Bridging the Gap (Manchester). Our mission is to to support people in immediate crisis by providing emergency food provisions and to seek longer term solutions to address the underlying causes of financial hardships, enabling communities to build resilience and a life free from poverty.
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Led by Ben Foster
Run with a purpose. Owner of Juno Previously GoodGym Oxford (2019-2023) Currently GoodGym Manchester
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