Mustard Tree

Website: https://mustardtree.org.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MustardTreeMCR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MustardTreeMCR
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mustardtreemcr/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MustardTreeMCR
Blog: https://mustardtreemcr.substack.com/
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Where do they work?: Harpurhey, Ancoats and Beswick, Clayton and Openshaw, Miles Platting and Newton Heath, City-Wide, Greater Manchester
Telephone: 0161 228 7331
Address: 110 Oldham Road Manchester M4 6AG
Registered charity number: 1135192
Company number: 04386613
Description: We create opportunities to help create opportunities to improve economic wellbeing and find settled homes. We do this through community shops, training placements, support services, gifting schemes, vocational training and creative classes – offering a consistent, warm welcome to all.
Services delivered: Mustard Tree runs a range of projects, all with the aim of providing support and working towards long-term solutions for the homeless and marginalised across Greater Manchester. Some projects are focused on improving skills, some on encouraging social interaction and others that try to tackle some of the personal root causes of destructive behaviour.
Services are available: Face to face, Online/digitally, By telephone
Services are delivered on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Monday opening time: 10am - 2pm
Tuesday opening time: 10am - 2pm
Wednesday opening time: 10am - 2pm
Thursday opening time: 10am - 2pm
Friday opening time: 10am - 2pm
Languages available: Mainly English, but we try to translate every language that we come across in order to minimize any barriers that may contribute towards social isolation.
Office space/venues/rooms available for hire / rent: We have various rooms in our central hub in Ancoats that can be hired out, dependent on availability. To hire them contact us on 0161 850 2822.
Cash donations: Please drop into our hub during opening hours and ask for our fundraising team at reception.
Please view the following link to donate online: https://mustardtree.org.uk/support-us/donate-money/
Non-cash donations: Make a donation here:
https://mustardtree.org.uk/support-us/donate-goods/
https://mustardtree.org.uk/support-us/donate-food/

Volunteering Opportunities

Opportunity title Summary
Customer Services Volunteer We are looking for people who are able to support our Retail team in the day to day running of our charity shop.
Help us Rebuild our Ancoats Building! Against a backdrop of national austerity, public service cuts and spiraling deprivation, we are innovating, re-building, and upgrading to tackle poverty, inequality and disadvantage across our city. While our Ancoats building is structurally sound, it was never designed for the work we do. Without major refurbishments it would become soon become impossible to maintain our existing services, let alone meet the rising need we face on a day-to-day basis.
Help Desk Volunteer <p>You can help people who have been unemployed for a long time, experiencing poverty or homelessness, to gain valuable experience working in a reception and administrative-based environment and to grow in self-confidence. Working alongside a volunteer with real office experience could really help our participants to learn the skills they need to find work. Help with managing telephone queries from people looking for help, to helping arrange furniture delivery slots for people who have finally secured their first tenancy.</p>
Help to Facilitate our Big Rebuild We have undertaken major refurbishments to our hub in Ancoats. The Rebuild is not only about rebuilding our Ancoats building, but about rebuilding lives too – the works will enable us to move forwards with our plan to double our impact on poverty and homelessness in Greater Manchester. We are moving to Phase 2 of the Rebuild, where we move our shop, warehousing and main office to the other side of the building, so that works can continue where they are currently situated with minimal disruption to our services. We are looking for volunteers on Saturdays 12th and 19th August, 9.30am-4pm to help with moving the office equipment from one side of the building to the other. This will enable the contractors to work on the second half of the building, without disruption to the services we provide for our clients, participants and customers.
Food Delivery Driver Could you help by volunteering as a Driver, delivering food parcels to individuals and families across Greater Manchester?
Driver's Mate Could you help by volunteering as a Driver’s Mate, supporting the delivery of food and furniture to individuals and families across Greater Manchester?
Facilities Management Support Could you help keep Mustard Tree safe, clean and COVID secure by volunteering as a Facilities Manger?
Helpdesk Volunteer Help Mustard Trees Helpdesk team meet demand, manage inquiries, and solve problems.
Community Shop & Food Club Volunteer Volunteer with Mustard Tree in our Community Shops & Food Clubs, having a chat and solving problems for people.
Reception Support Volunteer Can you volunteer on Mustard Tree’s reception, being a welcoming and friendly point of contact for our clients? Help Mustard Tree combat poverty by being an active part of our support offer, signposting and interacting with lots of different people.