We have continued to develop the work we started with ready meals production being cooked by volunteers (including asylum seekers) and CP placements.

We realised that there was an existing warm hub at Chorlton Central Church. The Warm Hub cooked meals for people in food poverty on a Thursday afternoon. In order to maintain this valuable activity we have:

a)      Added our cooking sessions to the provision so that it can become more sustainable. Our chef is cooking up to 40 for ready meals that have been donated to the homeless.

b)      Food is then prepared for the warm hub which attracts up to 40 adults. This has been so successful that the adults have started to bring their children and we can have up to 20 children at each session.

c)      In order to make the sessions more sustainable we have also set in place food collections from Fairshare Manchester. The food is collected each week for a mall fee and this has massively reduced the costs of running the warm hub and ready meals.

d)      There is a break over the summer but when cooking starts again in September we are planning a separate activity for the children as a craft club with food on a Thursday. Also moving the adults warm hub and ready meal production to Wednesday.

Because there will be no children at the Wednesday warm hub we can once again start to use CP placements in the kitchen