Hello from the initial members of the Manchester Food Not Bombs collective. We write to you in the spirit of solidarity to tell you about our activities and ask for your feedback, opinions and assistance.

Food Not Bombs is a global nework of groups who aim to fulfil the dual functions of making hot, otherwise wasted food available to people in the local community while providing information about local campaigns for peace and social justice.

Founded in America, the groups collect unwanted food from local shops to prepare and distibute to local people on their street based tables while giving out flyers and pamphlets about local campaigns. We aim to do a similar thing in Manchester but slightly more appropriate to our own context.

We want to work together to help publicise anti-deportation campaigns and asylum seeker defence and other social and environmental issues in the South and Central Manchester area while providing free food prepared by volunteers. Tied into ideas about food production and distribution, waste and recycling and critiques of consumerism, we want to make our activities focal points for the community, where people can come and volunteer, meet other local people, and eat healthy, nutritious food together (by the way, all our food will be completely vegan).

We will be mostly operating in the Rusholme area, as this is where most of us live, with the occasional trip into the city centre. At the moment we are looking to organise 2 sessions in September and then weekly events in October as our primary experiments, to see how well the servings are recieved. We also want to provide food at demonstrations and marches, to keep people warm and strong, particularly in the forthcoming cold winter months!

Please email the address below if you would like to get involved or offer any sort of help to us.

 foodnotbombsmanchester@hotmail.co.uk


We are NOT affiliated with any religion, or any political party. We dont believe in the liberal doctrine of charity, and though we take the name Food Not Bombs we represent ourselves and ourselves only, no other FNB group shall speak for us or us for them.

Manchester Food Not Bombs