What can we say, 2019 was a fantastic year for stopping food waste in Manchester! We intercepted over 45 tonnes of perfectly edible food and household items that would have gone to waste by working with retailers, supermarkets, small businesses and the Gleaning Network. We have provided 1,440 hot, nutritious meals for people experiencing crisis and have continued to redistribute beautiful food items such as fruit, yogurts, cereals and baby food to essential homelessness hoste

Emmeline’s Pantry is a wonderful not-for-profit that offers women and their families who are experiencing crisis access to good food and household items. It is run by amazing volunteers who work tirelessly to ensure they can offer a safe and discreet place for women to choose the items they need to make life more comfortable. They rightly took the name of Manchester's heroine, Emmeline Pankhurst who led the suffragette movement. A century on, they are still using the motto, #