B&Q Meir Park

A project using animals, plants, countryside and creativity to help those recovering from poor mental ill health. We also support victims of domestic violence and people who need help to improve their well being. We cook food for over 200 people a week, for some people this is the only nutritional/hot meal they have. We have a cook who is very inventive and creates lots of different dishes depending upon what we have available. If there are any surplus meals the people on the project can take them home. We do grow vegetables and some fruit in our allotment, but obviousley seasonal.

The children of Springcroft Primary Wrap Around Care Clubs are enjoying the great new exciting fruits in smoothie drinks and cut up in to fruit bowls. They have a range of cereals both with milk and bar form. Lots of items from the bakery are always a nice surprise.

Our tenancy support service provides high quality accommodation and low level housing management support for people affected by mental illness aged 18 years and above, who are at risk of not accessing or sustaining a home because of their mental health, vulnerability and/or a history of housing related problems. We have 16 units of self contained accommodation in Cheadle varying from bedsits, flats and houses. Currently with the cost of living crisis many of our tenants are having to make the decision between heating or eating, we would like to be able to collect surplus supplies from local suppliers so we can provide a warm room for our tenants in the staff office, so tenants can charge any electricals, get warm and we would like to be able to provide them with some food to help them get through the week without them having to make the decision between eating or heating, staff will be volunteering there own time to run this and there would be no charge for the tenants. We currently work with the local food bank and refer tenants when needed but in recent months, tenants are struggling more and more and we are having to refer to the food bank more frequently which is then adding extra pressure on to there service, we currently don't collect any surplus food.