Bite

What's Bite?

Bite works with people who have experience of mental health issues and may have used mental health services, supporting them to gain new skills and experiences through a range of enjoyable and supported volunteering opportunities.

Bite aims to make a positive contribution to health and wellbeing through the activities that take place around growing, cooking and eating food.

Bite started as a partnership between HARP and Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust. We are open to other partners joining us.

Any income from our cafes and caterung is ploughed back into Bite projects, so you can feel good knowing that when you do business with Bite your money goes into supporting people and projects that make a real improvement to people's health and wellbeing.

Where's Bite?

Bite links together cafes at day centres and hospitals, as well as community gardens and allotments, right across the city. This network of facilities means we can grow, cook and distribute healthy food at good affordable prices. To find out where your nearest Bite venue is just click here: Bite Map

Get Involved!

Bite has opportunities in its projects for you to get involved in growing or cooking food, gain new skills, meet new people and have fun! These projects are spreads actross Manchester and by getting involved you will also help them expand and develop. You can also have a chance to be involved in how they are run.

If you are part of an organisation that shares Bite's aims then please get in touch as we are always looking for other organisations to joint the partnership. We would support you in developing or expanding your existing food-related activities, and welcome your expertise.

Please contact Rowena Pyott (Bite Development Worker) on (0161) 226 9907 or 07717 002 591. Alternatively, you can email her at rowena@harp-project.org.