Curry Circle
Hot meal available every Thursday from 4pm to 5:30pm at Manningham Library, Carlisle Road, Bradford, BD8 8BB
The Curry Circle was established in December 2013. The project feeds an average of 100 homeless or destitute individuals every week. We have proudly provided over 70,000 hot meals since the project was launched.
The Curry Circle is managed and run by volunteers. We work in partnership with MyLahore restaurant (catering partner), Tesco (surplus food partner), secondary schools across Bradford, as well as members of the wider public to deliver this project. The Curry Circle is reliant on individual donations & has received sponsorship from local businesses. It has grown from strength to strength, supporting new service users every week, and enabling those homeless to develop the confidence to move on in their lives.
We hold regular fundraisers open to anyone wanting to support our project. Some of the sponsored activities we have completed include climbing Mount Snowdon, Ingleton Falls and Malham Cove.
We organise an annual Christmas Party for the service users, coinciding with our anniversary. We invite our service users, faith representatives, volunteers and local business owners to join in the celebrations. Everyone enjoys a delicious Christmas meal with the full trimmings, a prize raffle, lots of gifts and live musical entertainment! The Christmas parties are very popular, and we hope to continue hosting a Christmas Party every year for service users. The Party is often the only festive celebration for some of our service users.
In 2019 we piloted our Curry Circle Youth Social Action Project, engaging 200 young students from across Bradford’s secondary schools and colleges, and educating them on food poverty, loneliness, isolation and homelessness. Students worked towards designing and delivering responses to these issues. The project encourages ownership, learning through doing and discovering personal responses to social issues. The students felt it boosted their confidence, expanded their social circle and enhanced both their life skills and future employability. We look forward to working with more of our city’s young people on lots of future projects!
The Curry Circle is in need of sponsorship in order to continue promoting core services, which includes costs to feed service users, and venue hire. If you or your organisation would like to give back to the community via sponsoring the Curry Circle core costs, or the Christmas party, please contact the Muslim Women’s Council. If you would like to volunteer at any of our sessions we would love to hear from you.
Helping those less fortunate across the Bradford District.
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the Curry Circle currently provides takeaway hot meals to service users with a limited team of volunteers following the Government’s social distancing guidelines.
Donate with as little as: £2 per food pack.
