An award winning church and community project has teamed up with a Wakefield-based Muslim charity to opens its doors to offer a weekly free meal for those in need.
St Catherine’s church in Sandal and Agbrigg relaunched its community café this week – by announcing this joint initiative with Muslim charity, Penny Appeal to provide free meals for the homeless and vulnerable every Tuesday evening.
This latest venture for the award winning church builds on its daily food bank and emergency food parcel service. Penny Appeal works all over the developing world but decided to use the start of Ramadan to help those in need on their doorstep.
Called Meet and Eat, the charity provide all the food and most of the volunteers, pictured here with Centre Manager, Lisa Grant, for St Catherine’s and hope to offer a welcome warm dinner for anyone in need; the deprived, marginalised, homeless or just hungry.
The Meet and EAt project is run out of St Catherine’s newly transformed café. Called Nourishment, it is named after the church’s latest project to provide an opportunit for people suffering from depression to redevelop a disused community garden next to the church on Doncaster Road. Pictured here is the Mayor of Wakefield, Cllr Harry Ellis and the Mayoress, Mrs Janet Ellis, at the official opening of the newly refurbished cafe.
St Catherine's has just heard that Warburtons, a huge bakery in Normanton will be donating 2,500 loaves of bread each year, starting from next week – half will go to the city’s homeless shelter run out of Wakefield Baptist Church and half to the church homeless project .