The Wood Street Mission
The Wood Street Mission
The Wood Street Mission is a children’s charity helping children and families living on a low income in Manchester and Salford.
They provide practical help to help meet children’s day-to-day needs and improve their life chances.
Through Family Basics they provide struggling families with children’s clothes, bedding and baby equipment, toys and books which are important for children’s wellbeing and development.
They promote engagement in education by helping families with the costs of going to school through SmartStart and run holiday Book Clubs to promote reading and improve children’s literacy.
They also provide toys for children to have presents on Christmas Day.
They help thousands of children and their families every year, and all services are free for families to access on referral.
Founded in 1869 by Alfred Alsop, when Deansgate was one of the most squalid slum areas in the city.
The Wood Street site was acquired and the building built in 1873. This building has provided accommodation for homeless children, free dinners, clothing, shoes and even acted as an air raid shelter in World War Two.
Please consider donating to the Wood Street Mission.
Father Christmas visits Wood Street Mission.
The soup queue at Wood Street Mission about 1900.
Crowds of children at Wood Street Mission.
Deansgate ragamuffins about 1880.
Girls queue at Wood Street Mission.
