Good Mood Food, our catering enterprise, has been serving nutritious, vibrant food since 2005. All profits benefits Manchester Mind, enabling our local mental health charity to support people facing food poverty. In 2015, we were the first in the city to pioneer "Pay What You Can" lunches, and we are proud to say that since then our Food for All project has served 50,000 free/subsidised meals to vulnerable people at our community cafes.

Covid-19 has impacted small business and GMF has temporarily suspended catering orders. As such, there is no income to support Food for All, and with the closure of our community cafes, we knew many vulnerable people would be left with limited access to food. Now more than ever, poor mental health, loneliness and lack of access to healthy food are intertwined. The tools and routines many relied on to manage their wellbeing have been removed and good habits of self-care built up over time and with support are harder to sustain, including eating well and having access to fresh food.

In repsonse to the pandemic, GMF and Food for All joined forces to prepare and cook nutritionally balanced meals, delivered straight to peoples' homes, as well as high quality packed lunches for young people. We want to ensure healthy meals, fresh food packs and emergency provisions are available every day to people in Manchester throuhgout this crisis. Manchester Mind have already supplied 20,000 emergency meals since lockdown started, but to continue this lifeline we need your support.

To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, we launched an appeal to raise £10,000 for our emergency food project. Every donation will make a real difference. For example.....£3 will buy 2kg of lentils for 30 portions of Dhal ; £5 will supply enough pasta to make 50 meals ; £10 will deliver 2 fresh fruit and veg boxes to someone in need at home ; £20 will provide 2 family bags of fruit, veg, pasta, rice and condiments; £50 will purchase 1,250 food containers for prepared meals to be safely delivered ; £100 will create 10 boxes of emergency provisions, tailored to individual needs; £250 will ensure we have ongoing stock of PPE to prepare and deliver food safety and £500 will fuel and maintain 3 delivery vehicles .

In the spirit of our city, generosity and kindness are the greatest gifts we can give. EVERY DONATION (large or small) is appreciated. Thank you for being there for Manchester Mind, so we can continue to support those who need support through these uncertain times #Manchesterkind #nevermoreneeded