Sainsbury's Overseas House Local

Weekly Hot Food Kitchen for Families, homeless, refugees and anyone in need. We provide free food parcels and have a place for people to get food from. We provides hot meals & food parcels to people in the community who are facing hardships and struggling with the cost of living. The service also offers a range of other support to their users including a clothing bank and making referrals to the local authority where needed and signposting to other third-party organisations. The hot food kitchen was a lifeline to many throughout the Covid pandemic period when over 700 meals were delivered per week to people at their home addresses. It has remained a vital lifeline to many within the Rochdale borough, particularly with the recent cost of living crisis. We serve an excess of 200 people each week: in addition, we deliver hot food to vulnerable people as well as delivering to hostels and homeless providers and referral families too. The hot food kitchen serves rice and curry as its staple, as well as offering pizza and chips to vegetarians and children. Tea and biscuits are also served. Hope for the Homeless operates from a dedicated community space where individuals in need can access food and essentials. Additionally, we organise outreach activities in Manchester, where volunteers distribute food bags to those experiencing homelessness. We identify service users through direct outreach, community referrals, and local partnerships. Our main focus is on individuals experiencing homelessness or those in need of basic essentials such as food and clothing. We assess their needs through conversations and observations during our outreach and service provision activities to ensure we deliver appropriate support. - Free distribution of food and clothing to those in need   - Volunteer-led packing and distribution of food bags   - Outreach trips to Manchester to deliver food to homeless individuals   - A welcoming community space where anyone in need can come and receive a bag filled with food and essentials All services provided by Hope for the Homeless are free of charge. We operate solely on donations and volunteer support to ensure that no one is turned away due to inability to pay.

Manchester Young Community Champions provides a youth engagement project based at West Gorton Youth Centre 2 evenings a week, working with children and young people with additional needs affecting their mental health and emotional well-being. We provide a safe environment for young people to come and engage with a range of activities and events, enabling them to stay off the streets which helps to reduce anti-social behaviour. The activities we provide are multi-sports, cooking/baking arts and crafts, peer mentor led group sessions, 1-1 sessions, outings and residential trips, and we are reliant on securing funding in order to deliver this service. The areas in Manchester in which we focus are amongst the top 20% of disadvantaged communities in the Country as identified by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation, and a high proportion of our families are on benefits or are on a low income. In Ardwick alone over 50% of young people are in poverty or experience deprivation. (HMRC data report) As a result, members of these communities seek positive outlets for community activity and rely heavily on subsidised public and/or voluntary sector services to maintain their health, emotional well-being and social needs. Given this, we provide our children and young people with either a hot meal or snack during every session, which supports the family budget, and our families rely on this provision. In order for us to continue to provide food to our children and young people, we would like to apply for redistributed food donations from M&S to be received on a regular basis. Since the Coronavirus pandemic, we have been working creatively to continue to engage with and provide for our children and young people, and have done this by delivering food parcels to families on an outreach basis, which has enabled us to ensure that we can still provide meals for our children and young people.

CGMI Manchester is a faith-based organisation that has been actively involved in the Manchester community Our mission is to provide assistance to underprivileged families, support the elderly and disabled, and empower youth through educational and recreational activities. We believe in fostering a sense of community and promoting values of compassion, kindness, and service.