Manchester Central Foodbank

17/12/2025

Every week we support people and families who are struggling to afford the essentials.

However, we are having to buy more and more of the food we give out.

You can support Mancunians in need by texting XMASMCR to 70085 donate £5 this Christmas. 🎁💚

28/10/2025

We are pleased to reveal our Christmas donation campaign for this November.

This winter is going to be hard for hundreds of family in Manchester.

You can help us support them by donating essential items ahead of Christmas.

Each day, we’ll be posting an essential item that would go in one of our food parcels.

Whether you support us individually, at work, or as part of a group, all support is greatly appreciated.

More details can be found on our website: https://manchestercentral.foodbank.org.uk/2025/10/28/manchester-central-foodbank-launch-2025-christmas-donation-campaign/

01/10/2025

Over the next few weeks, you’ll notice a few changes from us here at Manchester Central Foodbank, as we refresh our brand.

There are no interruptions to our usual service, but we’re excited to introduce our new brand as we continue supporting Mancunians in need!

If you’d like to find out more about what we’re changing and why we’re rebranding, take a look at the piece we’ve published on our website. 🔗

https://manchestercentral.foodbank.org.uk/2025/10/01/rebranding-manchester-central-foodbank/

09/05/2025

We need a structural engineer or a surveyor to come and look at a wall in our new building to check if it is load bearing? Anyone able to help? The building is in ancoats.
email [email protected]

06/02/2025

We’ve got a bumper month of volunteering sessions coming up with some extra teams coming in, as we settle into our new warehouse space while keeping up the pace with supporting those in our city in need.

We had the first of those this week, with some friends from long-time supporters DF Capital, who helped sort a big pile of donations, ready for this week’s Foodbank sessions.

05/02/2025

We’re having a great afternoon at the 2025 Equal Start Summit here at Methodist Central Hall!

So great to hear from partners working in so many different areas in Manchester about the work they’re doing. 💚

03/02/2025

It’s just TWO DAYS until our 2025 Equal Start Summit being held at the Methodist Central Hall!

This year’s event is completely free and is a great opportunity to meet other partners working in your sector, sharing impact and building relationships.

Sign up here to join us on Wednesday: https://manchestercentral.foodbank.org.uk/2025/01/09/manchester-equal-start-summit-2025/

30/01/2025

🚨 We are recruiting - come join our team! 🚨

Applications are now open for two positions on our staff team - a Foodbank Session Coordinator and a Foodbank Session Worker! These roles will play a key role in running our three weekly Foodbank sessions, providing emergency food parcels to Mancunians in need.

All the details can be found on our website, and applications are open until 23:59 on Sunday 23rd February.

Please share with friends and colleagues who’d like to join our team!

Link in comments 👇

28/01/2025

It was amazing to welcome some friends from KPMG last week for a shift in our warehouse! 🥫

We’re still working through out Christmas backlog, so all the extra help we can get is hugely appreciated! 💚

24/01/2025

🚨 URGENT 🚨

We are in need of a driver to pick up a donation from MCFC Fans Foodbank Support outside the Etihad at 16:45/17:00 tomorrow evening and drop off at our warehouse on Monday/Tuesday.

Please SHARE and get in touch if you are able to help.

Thank you 🩵

** COLLECTION TOMORROW **

We're back before the men's game vs Chelsea for a collection in the usual spot and would love to see you there!

⏰15:30-17:00
🌽Donations for Manchester Central Foodbank
🏓Under the white bridge, end of Howard Bernstein Way

See you there!

24/01/2025

Manchester Equal Start Summit - 1pm to 4pm on Wed 5th February 2025 - Methodist Central Hall, Oldham Street, M1 1JQ - Please sign up & Share!

We would like to invite you to join Manchester Central Foodbank and a wide range of partners from across the education, health, advice, and community sectors for our 2025 Manchester Equal Start Summit.

Please SIGN UP here now and SHARE with colleagues and contacts who may be interested: https://forms.gle/MuhpTRdB4VFCo2gHA

It is absolutely FREE to attend and will involve schools, NHS teams, advice services, and other partners sharing the impacts of a wide range of child and family anti-poverty work that we have been conducting together over the last 3 years.

We aim for this to be a participatory space for sharing experiences and building relationships with funders and other organisations to seed and grow more partnerships between the education, health, and community sectors to support our families in the best way that we can in the coming years.

Projects that will be sharing their work and looking to find potential new collaborators and funding include:

< Co-located advice provision in 5 Manchester schools which has secured over £120,000 into the pockets of Manchester families.
< Cash grant scheme and wraparound support offers in Manchester schools.
< A Healthy Start Voucher benefit uptake campaign which has secured over £100,000 into the pockets of Manchester families.
< School Uniform provision, community manifesto and Manchester School Uniform Survey results.
< A community film from the Time to Talk group in Ardwick and Longsight sharing experiences of local barriers to accessing services, support, and entitlements.
< Anti-Poverty training and programmes run in Manchester schools.

We aim for everyone to come away from this event with new ideas and connections for improving anti-poverty and cost of living support within schools and community settings and potential working group members sourcing much-needed funding and capacity for schools and frontline organisations.

We look forward to welcoming you on 5th February and finding new ways to work together to ensure that every child in Manchester is able to access an Equal Start to life, education, health, and opportunities.