Available Help in Manchester

Help With / Fund / How to Apply
Food and Toiletries / Trussel Trust / Manchester Secondary Pupil Referral Unit is a food bank administrator
Please contact Steve Shannon on Mobile:07960109826
Sinead Dunphy or Claire Mckenna
Please see list of where food banks are

Furniture / Manchester Council * /
Must get one of the following benefits: Income Support, Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance or Guaranteed Pension Credit.
You may be entitled to get essential furniture or household goods if you are moving home for urgent reasons because:
  • you fear violence at your current address; or
  • you have significant health or care needs; or
  • you have suffered a disaster or emergency; or
  • your move is part of a supported resettlement programme or emergency rehousing.
You may also be entitled to essential furniture or household goods to support someone to stay within their home and maintain independent living.
We only provide goods, not cash. Each item will be delivered to your home, installed if necessary, and will come with a one-year warranty
Help With / Fund / How to Apply
Paint / B&Q
Dulux /
Energy Debt
Or
White Goods / British Gas
Charity /
Breakfast Club School Holidays / Wythenshawe area free breakfast club from 10 am – 11.30 am please see link for details

Anything / Talsiman Charity /
Our aim is to reduce poverty in the United Kingdom, such as by making grants to organisations who apply on behalf of individuals.
We assist individuals who may be described as "going short", accepting applications from registered authorities and organisations.
Fuel / Manchester Council * /
£30- £49 to help with fuel please see email link for details
Financial Crisis / Manchester Council * /
You can apply for a cash grant of between £30 and £60 if you are in crisis or have an emergency that's out of your control
Manchester Cathedral /
The object of the Dean of Manchester's Crosland Fund is to assist people living in Greater Manchester who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by making grants of money or providing or paying for items, services or facilities calculated to reduce the need, hardship or distress of such persons.
Applications must be submitted by a sponsoring organisation; we are unable to accept applications directly from individuals.
Funds are allocated on a quarterly basis in March, June, September and December.
Help With / Fund / How to Apply
Clothing & Uniform / Wood Street Mission /
Babywear and equipment /
Grants for emergency household items / Buttle UK /
Currently manage Children in Need emergency funding Essentials such as beds, washing machine. Grant up to £300
Food Clothing bedding or furniture / Mustard Tree /
we can refer direct to Mustard Tree – pastoral team or Claire & Sinead can help
Financial Support for everyday items / Glaspsool /
We provide timely, small, one-off grants to individuals and families in need of financial support for everyday items
Help with Heating / Npower /
Health Through Warmth offers help to people in England and Wales who have long term illnesses and are finding it hard to fully fund heating systems/repairs and insulation in their homes
Help with Fuel and House hold items / EDF /
The Trust helps families and individuals living in fuel poverty, suffering or other distress who are struggling to pay for their gas and/or electricity by awarding grants to clear those debts. The Trust also offers help via Further Assistance Payments to clear other priority household debts or purchase essential household items.
Toys Books
Washing Machines / Save The Children Fund / Waiting for more information
Growing up in poverty can mean children sharing a bed with brothers or sisters because parents can’t afford to buy one, wearing dirty clothes because their family can’t pay for a washing machine, or going without toys and books, all of which are essential for developing early language skills.
Cheap Furniture / The Wesley Foundation /
Gorton & Ardwick Grocers /
Pay £2.50 and receive £12.50 work of groceries plus cooking courses – Gorton area & Ardwick

Mustard Tree / Ancoats / 0161 228 7331
Low priced furniture
Tree Of Life / Wythenshawe / 0161 489 7018 Low priced furniture and clothes
Frost Foundation / Radcliffe / 07790 429462
Wesley Community Furniture / Fallowfield / 0161 226 9051
Low priced furniture and clothes
United Utilities / Hardship and water debt 0300 790 6172
Manchester Relief In Need / 0161 834 6069 c/o Gaddum Centre
Apply by the 15th - clothing and furniture

*Citizens advice team on 0161 672 1234 can help with any Manchester City Council Form

*Turnaround for forms is fuel 2 days cash grant 5 days and furniture fund 10 days all the longest they can be – Manchester City Council