Our projects
Westmorland Primary School
FareShare Greater Manchester has been working with Westmorland Primary School in Brinnington since 2020. We have been supporting the school with the MORE Food school scheme which allows parents to access food support for their families.
In February 2024, we expanded our partnership through the FareShare Foodies cooking project with the aim of utilising catering sized and frozen surplus foods to cook a meal for each child to take home with them.
“One child asked for more than one container of food for the rest of his family, he clearly knew that his family struggled managing money. He said “When I take this home for tea tonight, Mum will be able to go and get gas this weekend, it ran out on Wednesday.” – his beaming smile told me that he was delighted that he had been able to help feed his family.”
– A member of staff at Westmorland Primary School.
St Paul’s Catholic High School
For the past year, we have been working with St Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe. Their weekly Cookery Club operates after school and has the dual benefits of teaching life skills and sending students home with enough food to feed their entire household that evening.
If you are from a school or organisation which caters for the community you serve in addition to school meals and you’re interested in finding out more about our catering offer, please contact membership@emergemanchester.co.uk
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4.6 million tonnes of perfectly edible food gets wasted by the UK food industry each year.
That’s enough for 10 billion meals.
