M&S Bolton Middlebrook

Tom’s Pantry is a food outlet, located in St James Centre, Home of St James With St Thomas Church. We work with The Real Junk Food Project to intercept perfectly edible food, on its way to landfill, and make this available to our local community. As well as being helpful in budgeting we aim to care for our world. We try to educate people that we are helping to save the planet, as well as bringing them good quality food at reasonable prices. We have an annual membership of £5 and then a £3 cost for a shop of 20 items. The items can be chosen by the members themselves to give a sense of a real shop. Our food outlets are open to everyone, there is no need to be referred as we aim to care and share. We are open Tuesday & Wednesday & Friday 9.30-11.30am with friendly volunteers on hand to help people shop. Everyone welcome.

A christian movement committed to putting belief into action: taking a holistic approach, engaging with physical, emotional and spiritual needs, offering services without discrimination. in addition to christian worship, in buildings and the open air, services include drop in centres, lunch clubs, parent and toddler groups, debt advice, youth clubs, after school clubs & emergency food parcels.

Our goal is to support families in any way we can, physically , practically, spiritually and emotionally. We have a barnabas fund in place to help those in our local communities who need assistance and we aim to help those in need primarily through this fund. We have set up the Trading Post at our Hindley Green Church . It’s situated at the Bethel on Atherton road , Hindley Green. We are open Friday from 10-11 am and give away fresh food ( fruit / veg/ baked goods) plus cupboard staples. We are also open Saturday 10-11 am for fresh food only . We are thankful to neighbourly stores ( Aldi, M&S, Lidl) for their continued support, to Slimming World, Hindley Green and Daisy Daycare for their generous donations. We feed between 30-60 families a week from the community. Our aim is to take the pressure off ordinary families and as such we do not ask for referrals , it’s a ‘whosever will may come ‘ organisation . We want families in our community to live life to the full and we help in any way we can .