ALDI PRESTWICH

We collect waste food and share the surplus food with our community in Prestwich, to reduce food waste and help people to feed themselves and their families. It is open to the public. All the food is free. The fridge is located at Prestwich library and open Tue- Fri 10-4.30pm Sun 10 -1pm

We support members of our community who are facing multiple challenges with the vision of improving their mental health and well-being making them strong together as a community through a weekly session where we Signposts, counseling, having a group support, workshops and training sessions for health and well-being. We will kindly appreciate any support to alleviate the stress on our community members and help them build their self confidence and great social connections, encourage them to have a healthy lifestyle and be more happier. At Community Support Centre , We collect surplus food from local businesses and redistribute it to people facing food insecurity in our community, we work with shelters, food banks and community centers to ensure the food reaches those who need it most. Our goal is to reduce food waste while providing nutritious meals to individuals and families, helping to alleviate hunger and improve the overall wellbeing of those we support.

We are a charity called the Wai Yin Society set up by women within the Chinese community initially for Chinese women but which over the years has diversified to include other ethnic minority groups of all genders. Our centre is the Welcome Centre based in Cheetham Hill, Manchester where we serve a highly diverse population in an area of high deprivation. We aim to meet the immediate and practical needs of large numbers of service users as well as provide an easily accessible advice service. We have a community café, an urban farm with chickens and ducks, we run sessions for furniture upcycling and computing skills. We provide welfare and education services including art/calligraphy classes and ESOL classes; a laundry service for the homeless and those in need; basic toiletries; emergency food parcels and a clothes bank. We run gardening sessions at the Welcome Centre as well as at allotments behind the Irish Heritage Centre. We run a work club to help people get back into the job market and IT drop in sessions for those who do not have access to a computer or the internet and cycle repair facilities once a week. The Self Help organisation uses our Centre 3 days a week as a base for seeing clients in the North Manchester area. We host NHS health checks and cancer support groups and run accredited training courses to improve employment prospects. We run advice sessions to help people in crisis, supporting them in applying for various benefits, dealing with debts and a host of everyday problems. In the year between 1st June 2018 and 31st May 2019 we had a footfall of almost 19,000. We provided 6228 hot lunches and 880 emergency food parcels. Lunches cost 50p if service users can afford to pay, otherwise they are provided free. We receive a basic grant from Manchester City Council to provide the emergency food parcels, but this does not cover the cost for the number of people who are being referred to us by Job Centres, Advice Centres, Social Services, Community nurses etc. We go to Fruitful Office once a week to collect fruit and to Costco in Chadderton once a week to collect the donations. These donations are distributed to those in need as well as being used to provide lunches in the Community Cafe. We serve not only the local communities of Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall but people come to us from Blackley, Harpurhey, Moston and as far afield as Ashton and Bolton.