Christmas Dinner with BEFA

Trust House Bury

In this episode of Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester, we visit Trust House Bury to see how surplus food is helping support people across the local community. Through their pantry and café, Trust House Bury [https://trusthousebury.org/] provides affordable food—and a vital gateway to wider support. Hear from staff, volunteers and visitors about the difference it makes. A powerful story of community, connection and the impact of food. For more information about FareShare Greater Manchester and what we do to support more than 250 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester, please visit our website: https://faresharegm.org.uk/ [https://faresharegm.org.uk/]If you have enjoyed listening to this podcast episode, please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from hearing it too. To find out when our next episode is out, please subscribe to Food Stories Podcast on your podcast app, and follow us on social media.

Levenshulme Inspire

In this episode of Food Stories, we visit Levenshulme Inspire, a thriving community hub where affordable meals, friendly faces and shared spaces help bring people together. Based in the Levenshulme United Reformed Church building, Inspire hosts a wide range of activities for local residents – and runs a welcoming community café using surplus food from FareShare Greater Manchester. We hear from café coordinator Zaneta, chef Andy, volunteer Rahila and regular visitors Pauline and Billy about how Inspire is tackling food waste, building confidence and creating a place where everyone belongs. You can discover more about Levenshulme Inspire Centre on their website: https://www.lev-inspire.org.uk/ For more information about FareShare Greater Manchester and what we do to support more than 250 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester, please visit our website: https://faresharegm.org.uk/ If you have enjoyed listening to this podcast episode, please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from hearing it too. To find out when our next episode is out, please subscribe to Food Stories Podcast on your podcast app, and follow us on social media.

Christmas Dinner with BEFA

In this episode of Food Stories, we explore the storybehind the Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal and its annual Christmas delivery to FareShare Greater Manchester. What began 40 years ago as a single truck delivering turkeysfor people in need has grown into a nationwide effort helping charities provide festive meals to vulnerable communities. Hear from Ken Smith from BEFA, FareShare Greater Manchester’s Karina Tiplady, corporate volunteers and Manchester charity, Lifeshare, about the planning, partnerships and people who make this special Christmas delivery possible – helping ensure more people can enjoy a warm meal and companionship at Christmas. You can find out more about BEFA here: https://befafoodappeal.co.uk/ If you have enjoyed listening to this podcast episode, please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from hearing it too. To find out when our next episode is out, please subscribe to Food Stories Podcast on your podcast app, and follow us on social media. Learn more about the work FareShare Greater Manchester does and the charities and community groups we work with over on our website: https://faresharegm.org.uk/

Rainbow Surprise

Food Waste Action Week begins today and we’re celebratingwith the return of our Food Stories Podcast! We took our microphone out to Crumpsall to chat to the amazing team behind Rainbow Surprise, one of our community food members, who are doing amazing things to support their local community and people from further afield too. Rainbow Surprise is a busy community hub which operates out of Crumpsall Community Hall. Run by husband-and-wife team, Shakar and Shabnam Hussain, the services they offer include emergency food parcels, a food bank, community café, a salon offering haircuts and a recently opened community garden and outdoor space which is used to grow fresh produce. You can find out more about Rainbow Surprise here: https://rainbowsurprise.com/ [https://rainbowsurprise.com/] For moreinformation about FareShare Greater Manchester and what we do to help supportmore than 250 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester, pleasevisit our website.⁠ [https://www.faresharegm.org.uk/] If you have enjoyed listening to this podcast episode,please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from hearing it too. To find out when our next episode is out, please subscribe to Food Stories Podcast on your podcast app, and follow us on social media.

Carnival Cook Up with Cracking Good Food

On World Food Day, we're sharing a brand new episode of our Food Stories Podcast taking you back to a great event in spring of this year. Back in May, we joined forces with Cracking Good Food and supplied food for their brilliant corporate volunteering event, the 'Carnival Cook Up'. The day-long event which was based at Freight Island in the centre of Manchester, saw around 90 corporate volunteers cooking surplus food in order to provide 1,500 meals for people experiencing homelessness around Greater Manchester. For more information about Cracking Good Food, please visit their website [https://crackinggoodfood.org/]. Full shownotes for this episode can be found on the FareShare Greater Manchester website [https://faresharegm.org.uk/news-and-resources/podcasts/]. If you have enjoyed listening to this podcast episode, please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from hearing it too. To find out when our next episode is out, please subscribe to Food Stories Podcast on your podcast app, and follow us on social media.If you’re cooking for your local community and think we can help you with food, please get in touch with us. Contact our Membership & Information Coordinator Karina on membership@emergemanchester.co.uk [membership@emergemanchester.co.uk] or give us a call on 0161 223 8200 [tel:01612238200] (Option 4).