About our charity partners

We work with our charity partners to raise funds and redistribute food to the people who need it.

Since 2012 students donations through ‘Give It, Don’t Bin It’ have diverted over 2,540.3 tonnes of unused items from landfill.

The British Heart Foundation

Items donated to the British Heart Foundation donation banks go directly towards raising vital funds for lifesaving research through the sale of the items in British Heart Foundation shops. Since 2012, donations from Manchester students have helped raised the equivalent of £4.4 million for the British Heart Foundation, who have funded training schemes, defibrillators and life-saving heart research.

Manchester Central Foodbank and Fallowfield & Withington Foodbank

Our local Trussell Trust foodbanks help tackle food poverty by taking surplus food and redistributing to the people who need it most. Food items donated on campus go to Manchester Central Foodbank and items donated at the pop-up donation points go to Fallowfield & Withington Foodbank. Everything you donate helps to provide emergency food for local people in crisis.

Bideford Community Centre

Items collected by Bideford Community Centre will be used to support their work in Baguley, Wythenshawe. The centre hosts activities for all ages, from karate to computer classes!

Cracking Good Food

Kitchen items collected across The University of Manchester’s Student Hubs will be redistributed by Cracking Good Food to people starting out in a new home, allowing them to cook-from-scratch.