News

12 Aug 24

We’re hiring – Operations Assistant Manager

Our Operations Assistant Manager will play a key role in delivering our essential emergency food service, managing stock, deliveries and supporting our supporting You’ll work closed with the Project Manager on operational elements of the foodbank such as overseeing and preparing foodbank sessions as well as managing the warehouse and creating capacity to expand our […]

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26 Apr 23

Demand for emergency food parcels rises 119% in our local community

On Wednesday 26 April 2023, we released our stats on the number of emergency food parcels that Fallowfield & Withington Foodbank provided within our local community between April 2022 and March 2023. The alarming new figures reveal that we have provided 3894 emergency food parcels to people who couldn’t afford the essentials in South Manchester […]

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26 Jan 23

Our 2022 Round-up

This winter has seen demand for our support grown by an unprecedented amount. 2022 marked our busiest Christmas since the foodbank began. Despite this sobering reality the response from our community has been immense and inspiring. We’ve received generous donation from local schools, churches, businesses, sports clubs, NHS departments, student societies, benefit gigs and even a rave! When times […]

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1 Feb 21

February 2021 update

An enormous shout of thanks to all of our generous donors who really excelled themselves around Christmas.  The volunteers, Trustees and clients of the Foodbank are so grateful. We were able to provide plenty of Christmas goodies on top of our usual food parcels for clients and we distributed a great deal of seasonal treats […]

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14 Dec 20

Christmas opening times

We are open on Tuesdays and Fridays 12 noon – 2pm at Union Chapel, Wellington Road, M14 6EQ. We will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day (both Fridays) only.

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22 Nov 20

November December Update

Thank you to all of you who continue to donate food and money to us.  We just can’t tell you how grateful all of our clients and volunteers are! We are now turning our efforts on looking towards Christmas. We had not realised quite how many small charities, church groups, community groups and individuals usually […]

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26 Oct 20

Update

As we go into the Tier 3 restrictions, we give a massive thank you to all our donors and supporters and to the schools and churches that have made Harvest Festival donations.  So generous and thoughtful. And also to all our long-standing regular donors. The people of Fallowfield, Withington and Rusholme are WONDERFUL! We are  […]

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24 Aug 20

Foodbank news and update August 2020

We have continued to work out of Union Chapel in Fallowfield on Tuesdays and Fridays.  We have been making up food parcels for delivery for  Manchester City Council’s ‘Manchester Community Response’ initiative and we have also been helping people who can walk up to the Foodbank sessions. We are waiting to see when we can […]

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10 Jun 20

Coronavirus News June 2020

We are very busy and have fed well over 1000 people this financial year already.  Last year we fed about 2000 people in a whole year. We are concentrating on getting food to anyone who needs it by 2 methods: 1. We are open for walk-up clients who have a voucher or a voucher code […]

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3 May 20

Corona virus update 2/05/20

We are very busy and are concentrating on getting food to anyone who needs it by 2 methods:   1. We are open for walk-up clients who have a voucher or a voucher code at Union Chapel, Wellington Road, Fallowfield on Tuesdays and Fridays 12 noon – 2pm.  If you need a voucher code ring […]

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