M&S Deepdale Preston

Our objective is to reach out to our community and the nation with the love of God and the gospel of the kingdom, being the hand and feet of jesus to all. we carry out dance outreaches, midweek and sunday services, breaking of bread services, and other outreaches. we participate in street pastoring & committed to the unity of churches. we are big enough to accommodate everyone & to give all significance. We also carry out food outreaches where we give out food to the vulnerable in our community

We are a church based community centre based in Preston Town Centre. We run 2 "pay as you feel" markets per month and we deliver food parcels weekly either through referrals or by word of mouth. We also run a soup kitchen every Sunday feeding around 40 families per week where a food parcel is also given after they have received a hot meal. We require donations of fresh/frozen meat, vegetables, rice and pasta to support our soup kitchen which has grown in size over the last year. We support people of all denominations in both our soup kitchen and in the food parcels we supply. We rely solely on volunteers to help support the soup kitchen and the pay as you go market/ food parcels. Our aim is to help eliminate poverty as much as we can. All food and goods donated to our cause is given to our recipients free of charge. The pay as you go market contains food bought at cost from the supermarket and fareshare where the recipients can purchase good quality food with a long shelf life but pay what they can afford. We often rely on food donations at our market as these items are taken at no cost. Any remaining food from our pay as you feel market will then be donated to other charities such as Barnardos or the foxton centre.

- Education/training - The prevention or relief of poverty - Overseas aid/famine relief - Religious activities - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - Other charities or voluntary bodies - The general public/mankind - Makes grants to individuals - Makes grants to organisations - Provides human resources - Provides buildings/facilities/open space - Provides services - Provides advocacy/advice/information - Other charitable activities Foodbank