DEFRA | Tameside

Together Pantry Delivery 2 U

This groups aim is to provide a meaningful service whereby 30 Tameside Households per week experiencing food poverty, will receive a food parcel supporting them through the ongoing fuel crisis

BLOOM | Dig & Dine

This group will deliver a ‘Dig & Dine’ initiative at our allotment site in Hyde. This would comprise of a twice weekly session where we will prepare and cook healthy meals with up to 30 vulnerable people per session, utilising our allotment grown produce. The people we will support are adults with learning disabilities and / or poor mental health.

Increased Capacity

CAB – This project will provide high quality generalist advice to local Tameside residents with a range of advice needs across enquiry areas. We will advise residents facing financial difficulties and rising living costs. The cost of living crisis has been growing in scale and impact over the last six months, with inflation reaching historic levels and yet to peak. Those on the lowest incomes are most exposed, and masked within the headline inflation figures are specific increases that are hitting low income households the hardest. We anticipate a volume of participants to be on low incomes, benefit and employment incomes, and to have variable incomes, facing changes in circumstances, bereavement, relationship breakdown, the life events that clients approach us for generalist advice about, those experiencing a financial shock

Summer Holiday Food Distribution Programme

The main aim of this project is to maintain healthy community through provision of basic food and hygiene products to poor households as they spend the upcoming holiday with their children.

Cooking affordable, nutritious food, low cost & low energy

This group want to support the Pantry Store members to cook nutritious affordable food, using low energy equipment; to do this we want to help member make best use of existing equipment and supply low energy cooking utensils including slow cookers, pressure cookers, steamers etc.  food for recipes and encourage members to share experience and ideas.

Community Free Meal Service

The aims of the group are:

• To provide meals and other resources for community members who can’t provide for themselves
• To support people who are socially isolated and our community as a whole
• To enable local people to get involved and give back to their community
• To help in any way we can during a national crisis

M’bondo Community Summer Holiday Support.

This group will be supporting members of the M’mbondo community residing within Tameside to maintain good health summer holiday. M’mbondo community is an African subtribe originating from D R Congo. Majority of the community members are refugees who migrated to the UK after civil war to escape civil war. Similar to other communities living in Greater Manchester and Tameside in particular, M’mbondo community have been seriously affected by Covid 19 as majority of the Adults lost their part-time cleaning jobs during the lockdown. The project will involve provision of £50 pounds voucher to a food store whereby the beneficiary will be able to purchase food and hygiene products of their own choice to the limit of the voucher value.

Place of Welcome

This group hold this community event weekly. There members largely consist of retired people although it is not aimed exclusively to that age group. They welcome anyone who feels that they would benefit from the safe and welcoming space we provide. The lonely, isolated and those struggling with the cost of living. They would aim to provide the members with items of groceries, toiletries and other household items  and toiletries which maybe out of their budget and are necessary for a healthy lifestyle  

The Need To Get Changed

This project shall involve ensuring these women have access to essential appropriate toiletries and sanitary products and to provide education sessions about their menstrual health. Including:

• How to use different sanitary products,
• How long they should be used for,
• Identifying signs when you are due
• How to stay sanitary during their time.

Additionally, they want to purchase pants and underwear to offer out to the women when they are unfortunate enough to not spot these signs and end up in a very uncomfortable situation when they attend the service, they will be able to change into clean clothes and continue with their day.

The Tameside Meals Project

This groups mission is to provide free, nutritious food using the kitchen facilities at Hyde Town Hall. They source our ingredients from Fareshare i.e. food which would have ordinarily gone to waste. They want to initiate cooking classes with the help of our partners to demonstrate cooking techniques on low budgets

Nutritional Cooking for One

This group would like to create a pay what you can pantry at Studio 9 and will have this available at all times for people to access. They will also provide information in the form of recipe sheets that people can take away and try some of the nutritionally balanced meals. They will also provide items in smaller quantities, i.e. 1 or 2 potatoes for jacket potatoes to negate the need for people to purchase a huge bag.

Together Pantry

The aim is to provide a meaningful service whereby 50 Tameside Households per week experiencing poverty will not also receive a food parcel supporting them through the ongoing fuel crisis, but in addition will now receive a toiletries parcel consisting of Dental Health Products, Hygiene Products, Baby Changing Products, Sanitary Products and more. Beneficiaries will also receive a weekly Information Sheet on collection of their Parcels providing further support information along with the contact information of where this can be accessed.

Just Breakfast

This group will provide a simple take away breakfast to those who are experiencing financial hardship. This will be in the form of breakfast cereal and milk and will be available for collection at their existing community social group - The Chinwags on Monday mornings and our Coffee Morning social on Wednesday mornings.  The Chinwags group already offers a free hot breakfast each week - plus soup - and the Just Breakfast project will run along side this.  People will be able to eat at the group and take away breakfast cereal, if they wish.

Food Pantry – Emergency Packs

This group have a food pantry which is being used more frequently.  They will use the funds to provide  more supplies as they are getting more referrals.  This service is for local people in the St Peters Ward and they offer emergency food for roughly 2 days.  This also includes basic toiletries, toothpaste, shower gel, toilet roll, washing up liquid 

Vulnerable Residents Crisis Support

This group will provide financial assistance for vulnerable residents and families who are in need of emergency crisis support. The fund will be accessible through the community hub during opening hours Monday to Friday , avoiding the need for costly travel as tescos is a short walk away. The assistance will be by means or either a £10 Tesco voucher or a £10 prepayment meter key top up for energy.

Breakfast Club

This group will set up a cooked breakfast club to bring people together to eat and enjoy a hot cooked breakfast in a warm safe environment This will be a heavily subsidised meal and any profits will go to offering a number of free drinks or meals as and when possible.

Power of Resilience Crisis Intervention Project

The funds will be used to distribute £20 shopping vouchers for food to community members who are in crisis due to the cost of living increase and the rise in fuel bills. They will also give them a leaflet detailing the options for support for debt via Christians Against Poverty, foodbanks and mental health support in the local area.