UKFast Trust Guarantees Future of Local Foodbank

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A foodbank serving families from Moss Side, Hulme, Whalley Range and Old Trafford has been saved from scaling back its services, thanks to a commitment from the UKFast Community and Education Trust. Manchester South Central Foodbank in Hulme distributed 22 tonnes of food to families in need in 2018-19, as well as supporting primary school breakfast clubs, groups that cook for homeless people and agencies working with asylum seekers. The funding from UKFast Community and Education Trust assists with the foodbank’s growing rent payments, business rates and water bills, enabling them to continue to deliver their service at full capacity. The trust is committed to providing sustainable and lasting support for young people experiencing poverty, abuse, discrimination, exclusion and neglect, building on UKFast’s existing work in the community and in schools. “This funding relieves some of the pressures the foodbank faces and enables us to refocus on our core work of challenging and addressing food poverty within our communities, whilst supporting those in immediate need.” The move follows a summer in which the UKFast Community and Education Trust committed to fund 67,000 meals for children to alleviate ‘holiday hunger’ – the gap caused by not having access to free school meals during the school holidays.

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