Lifeshare
Lifeshare is Manchester’s oldest serving homeless charity, and marked its 40th anniversary in 2024. Lifeshare is dedicated to providing essential services to people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
We have a small core staff team and a large number of volunteers; both individual and corporate volunteers from Manchester businesses that we enable and support to deliver services/projects that seek to make a difference to those who are experiencing homelessness in Manchester.
Our core projects are currently; • Weekend respite breakfast project (52 weekends a year; Fridays, Saturday and Sunday 7-9 am) • Weekly emergency drop-in food bank (Tuesday and Thursday 2.00pm to 5.00pm)
Showing 1 of 1 entries
Lifeshare - Respite Breakfast Project
Lifeshare delivers non-judgemental, open access and free services to anyone experiencing homelessness or economic hardship. We are the sole provider of morning weekend provisions in the city centre.
The Weekend Respite Breakfast Project runs 52 weekends a year; on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 7-9am.
This service includes:
• Homeless residents attending the Respite Project can access a hot breakfast (usually a full English) three mornings a week.
• In addition to the hot breakfast, guests can obtain takeaway meals and access cereal and our fresh fruit bar, as well as help themselves to additional food collected from Fair Share and Tesco.
• Guests also have access to showers (with towels and toiletries provided)
• Access to the free clothes store, which is operated in a person-centred and dignity-preserving manner.
• Guests can also access additional services either through referrals or through sector services that "pop in."
This weekend service is delivered by a rotating team of volunteers (a minimum of 45 volunteers per weekend) who strive to provide respite care in a co-production model, involving collaboration between volunteers and those experiencing homelessness.
How to access:
Drop-in
- Homelessness and Destitution
- Drop In
- Online
- Phone and Email
- Digital Support
- Food
- Weekend Breakfast, Mosaic Wellbeing Hub, 2 Dale Street, Manchester, M1 1JW
- Website
- https://www.lifeshare.org.uk/
- Contact Email
- office@lifeshare.org.uk
- 0161 235 0744
- Service Capacity
-
Service is operating at normal capacity.
(last updated - 14/04/25)
- Availability
-
Drop-in
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Hours: 07:00 - 09:00
Immigration Status: All
Region: Manchester, Salford
Languages: No information available