Food
Thrive!
We started this project in a
very small way in 2011, offering food parcels.
We created our food co-operative in 2019. We now feed about 250 local clients each
week (including dependents), offering one large bag of food per adult per week.
Families can take more. We ask for a small donation (we recommend £3.00) which
helps us cover our own cots — the food itself, electricity for our fridges and
freezers, cleaning, bags, etc.).
Offering quality,
nutritious food at a Holiday Thrive
food club in August 2022. |
We aim to facilitate food
distribution across Borough of Oldham, with some members of Barnabas Thrive!
sitting on relevant coordinating panels. We collaborate
with Oldham Council and satellite committees and partners. The aim of such
coordination is solving day-to-day inequalities of distribution and hence
sharing, and therefore decreasing waste, but also dependency.
We offer food each Monday and
Friday 12:00 noon — 4:00 pm, after sessions of Women Thrive!,
immediately after each session of Holiday Thrive!, and by
appointment. Please do not go to the Vicarage. We do not keep food in St
Barnabas Vicarage.
Where
We house the project in four
modern, bespoke rooms within the Barnabas Centre on Arundel Street, Clarksfield. If you’re
using satellite navigation, please use the postcode OL4 1NL.
The smallest room contains a
walk-in fridge and two large freezers. The largest room offers fresh fruit and
vegetables, breakfast cereals, biscuits, tins, jars. We also have a warehouse and
storeroom to accommodate our stock of food, and ensure we can feed more local
clients.
Principal sponsors
For freezers and fridges: The National Lottery and Forever Manchester and Fareshare.
Constructing the food rooms:
Viridor-Credits and Manchester Guardian Society
Charitable Trust.
New storage room
(refurbished old store room) to facilitate the delivery of Food Thrive! The National Lottery.
Partners
We wish to thank the
following
Greggs Foundation and Greggs, Tesco Extra, Huddersfield Road
Oasis Academy, Leesbrook Campus
One Stop Community
Fund and One Stop on Lees Road
Further details
Please contact our community worker,
MaryAnne, on (07492) 849 158.
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Page last updated 13 October 2023