Food Donation Needs – 20 March 2020 To help people wanting to donate food supplies to the Foodbank these are our current food needs to help us keep stocked: UHT Milk Juice Cereal or porridge Rice and noodles Tinned potatoes Tinned veg Tinned Soup Tinned tomatoes Tinned meats or fish
Demand for our foodbank reached an all-time high today, and it was a significant increase on the levels of support we typically provide at this time of year, twice last weeks attendance. We were concerned at one point that we were seeing a ‘run’ on the foodbank along similar lines
Long standing supporter, and former Middleton Councillor, Chris Furlong has set his sights on raising funds for Middleton Central and Heywood foodbanks this summer
Our Lighthouse Pantry is now open. On 4th March we formally opened our latest project the Lighthouse Pantry which is a membership based food club helping people to reduce weekly food costs and keep more money in their household. Opening times are Thursday’s 1:30pm – 3:30pm and Friday’s 10am-12noon. To
We want to give a big thanks to Chris Furlong, former Middleton Councillor, who earlier this year took part in three marathons, in three countries, to raise much needed funds for three charities close to his heart. Through Chris’s sterling efforts, and his generous donors and supporters, he managed to
Easter Craft fare – Slimming World Middleton We want to say a BIG thank you to all the folk from Jeanie Logan and the Slimming World Middleton team who worked so hard to put on our Lighthouse Easter Craft Fair at the end of March. There were a many great craft
We’d like to extend a big thank you and make a call for support for Middleton councillor Chris Furlong who is running 3 marathons in 3 countries for 3 local charities in just 3 months – outstanding. Chris brought the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, down to the Lighthouse Project
We were pleased to welcome our patron Steve Coogan to the Lighthouse Project earlier this month, visiting with his daughter Clare and brother-in-law Mark, Steve spent time looking around our new premises and meeting some of the visitors attending a variety of activities. Members of the weekly art group were
We want to give a big shout out, and express huge thanks and appreciation to the Cash for Kids Mission Christmas appeal and our local Middleton Tesco Extra store who have helped us to provide toys for 77 children in families who would have otherwise been without a gift on
Bye Bye Cromer Mill On Saturday 19th November we enjoyed our last Who Let the Dads Out session at our Cromer Mill base on Hilton Fold Lane. The children and dads had a great time of fun, chasing each other around, playing with new space toys and characters and running
Real sport instead of virtual sport At our monthly Who let the dad’s out sessions there is always something different to do, this month after playing virtual games we decided to do some real-live sports in our warehouse sports area, table tennis, badminton, and 5-a-side, well 2, or 3-a-side football
During the coming school holidays we are piloting a new ‘holiday Club’ with the Trussell Trust and Middleton Central Foodbank. The club will be running on Thursday and Friday, 31st Mar, 1st April, and 7th & 8th April between 10:30am-1:30pm. It is a club for families to attend, so parents/carer’s
