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About Wood Street Mission

Wood Street Mission is a children’s charity helping children and families living on a low income in Manchester and Salford. We provide practical support to help meet children’s day-to-day needs and improve their life chances. Through our project 'Family Basics' we provide struggling families with children’s clothes, bedding, baby equipment, toys and books which are important for a child's wellbeing and development. We promote engagement in education by helping families with the costs of going to school through our Smart Start project and running Book Roadshows with local schools to promote reading and improve children’s literacy skills. Each year we launch a Christmas Appeal and distribute thousands of toys to families in need so that their children are able to unwrap presents on Christmas Day like any other child. We raise awareness about child poverty through our communications, holding events and giving talks at schools, businesses and groups. We help thousands of children and their families every year, and all of our services are free for families to access on referral. As an independent charity we rely on our supporters to raise and donate funds and items, and to raise awareness of our work. We have hundreds of volunteers helping us each year, who are essential to our work. Many of these volunteers come from the wonderful relationship we have with local businesses who not only release their staff but often hold collections and support us with advice and professional services. Find us on Facebook - @WoodStreetMission Tweet us on Twitter - @WoodSt_Mission Join us on Instagram - @woodstreetmission