Foodbank project boosts our colleagues’ wellbeing
06 Dec 2017
Do your bit – donate non-perishable items at offices for Compliance and Risk and Planning Support and various campus locations
Our colleagues from Compliance and Risk and Planning Support helped Central Manchester Foodbank in a combined Wellbeing and Social Responsibility activity.
They sorted provisions and stacked shelves at the foodbank, at Manchester Universities' Catholic Chaplaincy. Founded in 2013 by local churches and community groups, working together towards stopping hunger in our local area, it has distributed 4,014 three-day emergency food supplies given to people in crisis in the last year.
Organiser, University safety coordinator Arthur Nicholas said: “A morning spent sorting their provisions and stacking shelves was beneficial to both our physical and mental wellbeing, it felt good for the soul to be actively involved in helping the less fortunate in society whilst simultaneously having a laugh and working together as a team with colleagues who largely collaborate with one another remotely via email/telephone in a transactional fashion.
“I would highly recommend this activity as a boost to Wellbeing.”
The team has also set up foodbank collection points at their offices:
- Simon Building, 4.76
- Williamson Building, 7th Floor
- John Owens Building, 1.021
Also:
- Registrar John Owens Building, 1.003
- General Counsel John Owens Building, 1.001
- 186 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road
- FoodOnCampus University Place shop
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