Soca Pop-Up Food Bank

Supporting Our Communities…

We provide a small food bank in the north of England to help people in our local community. The number of people using food banks across the UK has risen from tens of thousands to millions since 2006.

There are many factors contributing to the rise of food poverty, including national welfare reforms, the rise of zero hours contracts, and struggling local economies. We also provide food, toiletries and other essentials. We go from door to door to get the food to the people as a popup service.

We know that anyone can find themselves in a financial crisis and we’re here to help. Individuals and families face challenges such as job loss, debt and eviction, benefit issues, homelessness, domestic violence, substance misuse, and physical and mental health problems. Real people find themselves in need of our support.

Everyone is welcome one world one community one people…

The food packs we give out contain enough food for seven days. We try to provide a good quantity of nutritious, high quality food in our food packs, and tailor each pack to meet people’s dietary requirements and preferences. We believe in respecting people’s food choices no matter what financial predicament they find themselves in. We also supply toiletries when available. We welcome people needing our services to turn up on the day – no appointment is necessary.

We are asking everyone who would like food donated to contact us on our main numbers below. Alternatively, email us. We will bring the food to you.

Now the crisis has died down, we aim to carry supporting people every few months at locations around Yorkshire and the North West. What we is unique because the people who attend do not need to register they just need to turn up on the day to be given two bags of shopping of their choice.

If there are any local community shops in the region such as grocery stores who will like to donate food, please call or send an email to make arrangements and we will collect the food directly from you.

You can donate by sending a cheque payable to Up North Music Sports & Performing Arts to this address: 30 Polebrook Avenue, Greater Manchester, M12 4E. United Kingdom.

Up North Music Sports & Performing Arts is an equal opportunities group with diverse members from a variety of West Indian and Eastern Caribbean Islands. We are happy for anyone and everyone to join the group and membership is available throughout the year.

Our main focus is arts and cultural art, particularly the performing arts. For more information about our cultural arts please visit our web site ‘About Page’. The work we do is voluntary. We do not hire professional fund raisers to carry out fund raising, we fund raise as a team, throughout Christmas, Easter and summer. The work we do is voluntary and all cultural workshops are free of charge for the benefit of the community.

If we can be of any assistant to your organisation, we would appreciate hearing from you. Thank you, for your time. We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Everyone at UNMSPA.