‘Life-changing’: Manchester’s homeless and addicts show there is hope with exhibition
The culmination of the charity’s Leadership Faculty will be marked by an exhibition at Virgin Money Lounge.
Manchester chefs dish up meal for poverty project to ‘give people a purpose’
David Gale has worked as a senior chef at the Hilton Hotel, The Lawn Club in Spinningfields and Mughli in Northern Quarter, and will open his new restaurant Louie next year… but this lunchtime, he’s dishing up a meal in slightly different circumstances – on the first floor of a warehouse on Oldham Road.
Charity on a mission as parents in Manchester and Salford struggle with cost of school uniforms
Wood Street Mission, which launched a major new initiative earlier in the summer called SmartStart Manchester & Salford to help low income families with school costs, supplied school uniform worth more than £85,000 to 1,741 children and 835 families in August.
Manchester kids and families in need to get help quicker thanks to council scheme
Help can’t come soon enough for some of Manchester’s disadvantaged children and families but it will come sooner thanks to a new council initiative to build a better, brighter future for those in need.
Benefit cuts will force more Manchester families to rely on food banks, warns study
The number of Manchester residents relying on food banks for their next meal is set to surge with the welfare cuts announced by George Osborne in the Tory’s 2015 Budget, according to new research.
’Anti-poverty’ financial services and affordable goods store opens in Bolton
A unique financial services and affordable household and white goods store has opened in the former Millets store in Bolton’s Victoria Square.
A healthy retirement? Fat chance if you live in Manchester, new stats warn
People in Manchester city centre are not even expected to reach the traditional retirement ages of 60 and 65 before moving into a phase where their health is neither very good nor good.
What keeps Manchester up at night? Finance, family, health – YOUR worries revealed
In some cases worrying can be helpful when it spurs you on to solve a problem but, equally, it can be an oppressive force that prevents action and bars success.
‘Dehumanising’: Manchester Green Party call on Selfridges to ditch anti-homeless spikes
Manchester Green Party have branded ‘anti-homeless’ spikes ‘dehumanising’ and called on Selfridges to abolish the ‘heartless’ tactic.
Manchester’s starvation shame: 162 ‘undernourished’ people admitted to hospital
Starvation and undernourishment caused 162 people to be admitted to hospitals in Central Manchester and Salford last year, shocking statistics have revealed.
Manchester food bank feeds ‘twice as many’ as expected ahead of Christmas
Food bank bosses in Manchester have revealed the number of families relying on food parcels to survive this Christmas is at an all time high.