Ahead of the festive season, and after research commissioned by Deliveroo revealed that over 74% of Brits have unopened food items in their cupboards that they would happily donate to food banks, the food delivery service has joined forces with the Trussell Trust to help the foodbank charity get closer to providing the 1.3 million emergency food parcels that it expects will be needed over the next six months.
The launch of the new ‘Collecteroo’ service also comes after the Trussell Trust launched an emergency appeal for the first time in its history to meet a “devastating rise in need”.
The charity says it’s used up all its “reserve stock” that would normally help maintain supplies across the winter months at its 1,300 food bank centres.
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Mobile ‘Collecteroo’ e-vans will collect unopened and in-date food items from people’s homes and deliver them to some of the food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network, not just in Greater Manchester, but at other major UK cities like London, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Cardiff.
The food collections will start on Monday 12 December in Manchester and end on Saturday 17 December in London.
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‘Collecteroo’ will be able to pick up various types of long-lasting products across the five-day period, with the Trussell Trust encouraging people to donate the following nutritional food items, where possible:
Tinned fruit
Tinned meat / fish
UHT milk
Tinned tomatoes / pasta sauce
Sponge or rice puddings
Long-life juice
“Our partnership with the Trussell Trust has already provided 1.5 million meals to food banks and communities across the country,” explained Will Shu – CEO and Founder of Deliveroo.
“Our research highlights that people have food in their cupboards that they would like to donate, so working closely with the Trussell Trust, our ‘Collecteroo’ service will help make it easier for people to donate by connecting local residents to local food banks.”
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Deliveroo launches food donation collection service to help hungry Mancs this Christmas / Credit: Ben Stevens (via Deliveroo)
Danni Malone Director of Network Programmes and Innovation at the Trussell Trust,added that the ‘Collecteroo’ initiative will “make a real difference to our food banks in these cities by making it easier to donate and helping to ensure that they have the stock they need to keep going this winter.”
Manchester residents who want to arrange a food collection from their home can apply here before applications close on 28 November.
Find out more about the ‘Collecteroo’ campaign here.
Featured Image – Ben Stevens (via Deliveroo)
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Home Bargains has announced a special two-day closure of all UK stores
Emily Sergeant
Home Bargains has, once again, announced it’ll be closing all its UK stores on both Boxing Day and New Year’s Day this year.
And it’s to make sure staff get a ‘well deserved break’.
After what has been yet another busy year for the retail industry, many workers have been left feeling like they could do with a little extra time off, which is why Home Bargains is following on with what has become a now-annual tradition by shutting up shop on two bank holidays.
All of our stores will be closing for Boxing Day & New Years Day.
Announcing the move in a post on social media, the discount retailer confirmed: “All of our stores will be closing for Boxing Day and New Years Day. We would like to thank all our colleagues for how hard you have worked this past year, and want you to relax and enjoy the Christmas break with your loved ones.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time the retailer has kept its doors shut on bank holidays.
Many shoppers will recall it has made the same decision to give hardworking staff a break every year since 2019.
Explaining a little more about the decision taken to close all its stores, Home Bargains said: “As a family-run business, we know the importance of being together at Christmas with those we care about most, now more than ever.
“This is our way of saying thank you to our colleagues for their continued hard work and dedication.”
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Two Greggs in Manchester will be serving their breakfast menu in the evening next week
Emily Sergeant
Who says breakfast has to end at 11am?
In news that’s set to be music to the ears of breakfast lovers in Manchester, Greggs is giving them exactly what they want.
We all know that brunch is a ‘thing’ by now, so now it’s time for brinner to make a name for itself instead, as Greggs has teamed up with Heinz to bring its much-loved breakfast menu back for tea time, kicking off from 4pm onwards.
The move comes as a new survey has found that the majority of Mancs (69%) admit to enjoying eating breakfast food in the evening, saying it’s ‘convenient and comforting’ – even ranking breakfast as a ‘more important’ meal than tea, as well (38% vs 36%).
Two Greggs in Manchester will be serving their breakfast menu in the evening next week / Credit: Greggs (Supplied)
Greggs says it has ‘lost count’ of the amount of customers that have tried to order breakfast items after the usual cut-off time, especially in Greater Manchester.
But luckily for those breakfast-loving Mancs, they can finally get their favourite breakfast and sauce pairing long after the morning rush is over next… but only at two Greggs branches, and only for a very limited time.
On Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 October, the Heinz x Greggs Brinner collab will be available at Greggs St Mary’s Gate and Greggs Oxford Road, from 4-7pm only.
“We’ve lost count of the number of customers who have tried their luck ordering breakfast after 11am, so when Heinz came to us with the idea of making Brinner a reality, it felt like the perfect excuse to give the people what they want,” explained Zoe Harris, who is the Customer Director at Greggs.
“And let’s be honest, a Greggs Bacon Roll just wouldn’t be the same without a squeeze of Heinz Tomato Ketchup.”
Emily Sergeant -
10th November 2022 
