Everything You Need To Know……………..Free Food
We began talking about how, where, and what participants eat in Manchester.? It soon became apparent that many had no or little control over what, where and when they ate. If any had a special dietary requirement, either for medical, moral or religious reasons, it was extremely difficult to find what was suitable. The feeling was that they were like children, being forced to eat what was given to them, no matter their preference. This was not said with a sense of ingratitude, but out of a sense of frustration and lack of ownership over their situation.
There was, however, a fair bit of practical advice about where to get free food and places where they could go to food banks that emerged from the conversation.
Collective brain dump – Everything you need to know about food
Free Food
Cornerstone https://www.cornerstonecds.org.uk/about
(also clothes, shoes, hair cut) – Monday to Friday – breakfast and lunch
Saturday – sandwich at 2 pm
Mustard Tree – soup night on Friday at 7 pm
Piccadilly – 7 pm food donations are given out by various charities in the Piccadilly area
Booth Centre
Red Cross – Monday and Thursday
Rainbow Haven, Gorton – Tuesday and Thursday
New Covenant Church, Levenshulme – Thursday 5 pm – 7 pm
Ruby Church – Longsight and Wigan – Wednesday 7 pm
WAST – for women only – Thursday/Friday – food parcels, support, cooked food
Food Banks
New Covenant Church, Levenshulme – Tuesday 5 pm
Command Prayer Centre
Wellspring (Stockport, 7 days a week, clothes and shower)
Revne
University Chaplaincy, Oxford Road
Vouchers
MRSN
Family support MCC
Some places only offer help for a limited time
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