Foodbank Provision at St. Cross

On Sunday 7th May 2017 we launched the St Cross Foodbank and what began as a small venture with less than 10-15 families coming each week has quickly grown with us now helping feed more than 30 households in need every week. We have worked hard over this time to make connections and forge partnerships with organisations throughout the area to supply much of the food we need on a weekly basis, but we still rely on our community members' generous donations of food and money, as well as local organisiations (particularly the three primary schools in our parish- St. Willibrord's, Seymour Road and Ravensbury- who run collections at various points during the school year) to be able to do this and we have a collection bin in the foyer at St. Cross as well as Foodbank Collection Points at ASDA Eastlands, Co-Op Funeral Care and St. Willibrord's School for donations of non-perishable foodstuffs which we need stocks of all year round.

If you represent a local business or organisation who would be interested in becoming a collection point for us, please click here to find out more. [Link to be added asap, please check back or contact Fr. Chris directly in the meantime.]​

Thank you to our partner agencies:

ASDA Eastlands for hosting our Collection Box for donations
FareShare Greater Manchester - fresh fruit and veg, dairy produce and more

and, through the FareShare FoodCloud programme:
Gregg's, Lime Square - Cakes and baked goods
​Tesco, Gorton - Bread and baked goods

​as well as all the organisations acting as collection points for us!

​If you are able to donate to help local families in need we would be very grateful:

​You can place donations in our collection trolley at Asda, any of our collection points around Clayton (see above) or bring them to church after services or during Foodbank hours on Saturdays (10:30am-12noon). 

If you would like to help but are unable to get to the shops or to church to donate food then you can donate online via our Just Giving page and we will use the money to purchase weekly essentials for our Foodbank Families to supplement other donations.

Thank you!

At present we are looking for non-perishable foodstuffs such as:

Tins -

• meat and fish
• vegetables (incl. potatoes) and fruit
• baked beans, spaghetti hoops etc.
• sauces eg. curry, chilli, casseroles
• soups
• rice pudding

Jars/bottles -

• sauces eg. curry, bolognese, chilli, pasta sauces
• mayonaise, ketchup, brown sauce
• jam, marmalade, honey, peanut butter, etc.

​Packets -

• soups
• sauces eg. casseroles, chilli etc.
• custard

Pasta
Rice
Cereals and Cereal Bars
Nuts
Drinks -

• tea bags
• coffee
• milk (longlife or powdered)
• sugar
• bottles of fruit squash/cordial
• fruit juice (longlife cartons)

PLEASE NOTE:

We are currently working with partners in the community, including Ravensbury Community School, Seymour Road Academy and St. Willibrord's RC School, as well as the Wells Centre and Cornerstones who we have asked to identify families/households in crisis.

St Cross Foodbank will open on Friday afternoons between 4pm and 5pm only to families who have been referred via the official channels listed above.  At present St Cross Foodbank is not open to the wider community and we cannot accept self-referrals.