tamesidesouthlongdendale | Tameside South & Longdendale

31 Oct 16

St Anne’s School Harvest Collection

St. Anne’s School collected enough food for 313 meals for local people in crisis at their Harvest Collection. Thank-you

30 Oct 16

Record Breaking £1,596 raised at Manchester Piccadilly Station

We raised around half the cash we need to run the foodbank for a year in one day at Manchester Piccadilly St. It was a record breaking £1,596 the best ever since Trussell Trust has run Foodbank Friday collections at stations across the country. More proof of Manchester’s generosity. Local people are very generous and […]

17 Oct 16

Eden Springs give the perfect cup of coffee

Eden Springs have given us the perfect cup of coffee with a gift of 200 Gold Blend sachets and 460 teabags.

17 Oct 16

Longdendale High School support foodbank

Eight pupils from Longdendale High School visited the foodbank. Before their visit they had worked hard running cake sales and collecting donations. This meant that they could bring a whopping 113.5kg of food – enough for 270 meals. During their visit they learnt how a foodbank works and had a go at some essential tasks […]

30 Sep 16

Father and Mother Christmas celebrity appearance

We were privileged to have visit from Father and Mother Christmas with their friend the Snowman. Beautiful knitted figures donated by SANDRA – thank-you. If you want to give them a cuddle – or know someone who would then buy some raffle tickets 50p each or £2 for five. Call the foodbank on m:07901 786905.

28 Sep 16

Generous harvest at St James’ Catholic Primary School

Many thanks to all the children and staff at St James’ Catholic Primary School. They donated an amazing 104kg of food from their harvest festival. It will go a long way to hep feed families in the local area

16 Sep 16

Tesco Collection September

We collected over 240kg of food in the collection on September 9th at Tesco Extra Hattersley. Thanks to every who stood for hours handing out leaflets, smiled and said thank-you, got green ink on their hands doing the sorting, stacked and lifted boxes, sorted tins and drove the van. You are stars and your effort […]

13 Sep 16

Carillion and TBD Training take the heavy load

Thanks to Carillion who transported 14 boxes of food from Tesco Hattersley to our warehouse at TDB Training in Trafford Park today. TBD Training are also stars. They provide logisitics training. They had empty space in their warehouse and so they offered foodbanks in the Manchester area storage space for free. They spend a lot […]

11 Sep 16

Tesco collection

Thanks to all the staff and customers at Tesco Extra at Hattersley who helped with our food collection on Friday 9th September. Volunteers from British Gas, St Mary’s Hollingworth, St Michael’s Broadbottom and the foodbank helped out between 9am and 5pm. They asked shoppers to donate an extra can and you were generous……again. We collected over […]

1 Sep 16

Give 2 hours to help the foodbank

We are doing a tin rattle collection at Manchester Piccadilly Station on Friday 28th October between 7am and 7pm. Please come and help – the station is very busy on Fridays. Hundreds of commuters pass through and many of them support what we do. Hopefully we will be able to collect money to support our […]

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