![]() ![]() Currently it is delivering roughly 22 tonnes of surplus food a week – that's more than 2,000,000 meals a year. To date, TBBT have provided over 3,000,000 meals to families in need across Greater Manchester. Its drivers make 1,300+ deliveries over six days a week – that’s over 40,000 meals every week – and deliver every week of the year, giving members regular and reliable access to our service. By March 2020, TBBT had grown to seven vans and 29 community partners. It started with one van and five community partners. Its mission is to create a fair solution for people in poverty and its long-term aim is to address the premiums that people in poverty pay for food, loans, energy and other everyday essentials simply because of their personal circumstances. The Bread and Butter Thing is a charity that makes life more affordable for people on a low income, builds stronger communities and reduces food waste using an innovative and self-sustaining approach to the redistribution of surplus food and non-food items. With special funding from Manchester City Council, individuals in need should contact the Council's dedicated Coronavirus Support Team on 08. It's an opportunity for all of us to better serve our city and our communities and look out for Manchester's elderly, sick and isolated." Now we'll be working through the day to pick up food from The Bread and Butter Thing and - in our fleet of 80+ milk vans - we'll be dropping the food bags to people who really need them most. Simon Mellin, MD of The Modern Milkman continues: "Our drivers usually spend the mornings doing our regular milk rounds. Normally we distribute through community hubs - and this work continues - but we are now expanding to provide a door-to-door service for Manchester's most vulnerable who are self-isolating at home and unable to get out to get food safely." Every day TBBT takes food surplus from supermarkets, manufacturers and distributors and bags up it up for our 8000+ members across Greater Manchester and beyond. Mark Game, CEO The Bread and Butter Thing explains: "The Coronavirus is forcing us all to revaluate our ways of working to respond to those most in need. The project unites The Bread and Butter Thing's expertise in redistributing food surplus with the Modern Milkman's growing door-to-door delivery squad, to offer a vital lifeline to 100s of households across the city from Thursday 2nd April. The Bread and Butter Thing is teaming up with The Modern Milkman to provide Manchester's COVID-19 Crisis Response with daily deliveries of fresh food to the ill, elderly and isolated across the city, funded by Manchester City Council. The Bread and Butter Thing team up with The Modern Milkman to serve Manchester's COVID-vulnerableįunded and supported by Manchester City Council ![]()
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