Mustard Tree

Mustard Tree is a charity fighting poverty and homelessness in Greater Manchester. We offer support services, including food distribution, training programs, and employment support, to help people rebuild their lives.

We also offer financial support, and run activities such as art music, ESOL and drama groups.

This includes information sessions every morning around housing and homelessness support. Migrant Help are visiting Mustard Tree every Wednesday and offering support for e-visa changes.

How to access:

Drop-in or submit a referral form on the website to register for services like Food Club and hear more about clubs, classes and the Freedom Project (life-skills and employability training placements).

For self referrals and client referrals, please complete a referral form via: https://mustardtree.org.uk/get-help/ and email to referrals@mustardtree.org.uk, or call 0161 228 7331.

Mustard tree runs a community shop in Ancoats, offering access to low cost food through the food club, clothing and household essentials such as furniture, white goods and pots and pans.

Here, people seeking asylum can get free clothing up to a value of £15 a month.

How to access:

For more information, please call or email

Mustard tree runs a community shop in Eccles, offering access to low cost food through the food club, clothing and household essentials such as furniture, white goods and pots and pans.

Here, people seeking asylum can get free clothing up to a value of £15 a month.

How to access:

For more information, please call or email

Mustard tree runs a community shop in Little Hulton, offering access to low cost food through the food club, clothing and household essentials such as furniture, white goods and pots and pans.

Here, people seeking asylum can get free clothing up to a value of £15 a month.

How to access:

For more information, please call or email

Mustard Tree’s Freedom Project is a life skills and work readiness program aimed at helping people who’ve had more barriers than usual to moving on in life and achieving independence: barriers such as homelessness, mental health issues, addiction recovery or a criminal record.

The overall goal of the project is to equip participants with the sort of skills and experience that will improve their likelihood of future employment and (arguably more importantly) give them a sense of belonging to a community.

With that in mind, participants work within Mustard Tree and learn about the key areas of our operation, from customer services and office admin, to catering and waste recycling.

How to access:

Head Office Open days every 3 weeks. No need to register and public transport travel costs reimbursed.

Find out about our next open day: Call 0161 228 7331 or email freedom@mustardtree.org.uk.