Service Christmas opening times 2026

Date Published: 21 Oct 2026
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Below is information on our service opening times over the Christmas period 2026:

 

Cornerstone:

Open as usual on Monday to Fridays over the festive period, apart from Monday 28 December and New Year’s Day when the service will be closed.  On Christmas Day – 25 December – the centre will be open from 9.30am to 1pm serving breakfast and lunch.

 

Red Door:

Open as usual on Monday to Fridays over the festive period with the exception of Christmas Day – 25 December – and New Year’s Day, when the centre will be closed.  Please note that on 28 December, the centre will be open from 9am to 1pm serving breakfast and lunch.

 

Homeless service accommodation projects:
All our accommodation projects will remain open throughout the Christmas and New Year operating our usual service with some extra support and appropriate celebrations for our residents.

 

The Lalley centre, community pantry and allotment:

Lalley centre: Open as usual until 23 December.  The centre will be closed on Christmas Day – 25 December – 28 December and New Year’s Day.  Sessions will be by appointment only on 29, 30 and 31 December.

The last Friendship Group of 2026 will take place on 17 December, returning on 7 January 2027.

The last community pantry session of 2026 will take place on 23 December, returning on 6 January 2027.

The last allotment session of 2026 will take place on 17 December, returning on 7 January.

The centre, pantry and allotment will return to usual opening hours from 4 January 2027.

 

Aspire:

Classes run until 17 December, and will restart from the week beginning Monday 4 January 2027.

t classes 17th December; returning 4th January.

 

Resettlement programmes:

Support will continue via email or emergency calls throughout the Christmas period, with the exception of bank holidays.

 

School service:
Closed from Friday 18 December 2026.  Reopens Monday 4 January 2027.

 

Energy advice service:

Please note: below shows the last advice service drop in before Christmas for each location, as well as the date of the first drop-in after the Christmas break:

Caritas Cornerstone Centre: 21 December 2026, 4 January 2027

Caritas Lalley Centre: 23 December 2026, 6 January 2027

Stretford Town Hall: 15 December 2026, 12 January 2027

Yaran Longsight: 1 December 2026, 5 January 2027

Inspire Levenshulme: 11 December 2026, first date of 2027 to be confirmed

Hulme Foodbank: 18 December 2026, 29 January 2027

Blackburn Foodbank: 21 December 2026, 4 January 2027

Maundy Relief: 23 December 2026, 5 January 2027

Church on the Street: 17 December 2026, 7 January 2027

Christian Community Larder: 14 December 2026, 11 January 2027

Ash Grove Darwen: 9 December 2026, 13 January 2027

 

Crisis or urgent support:

If you are experiencing a crisis such as homelessness or cost-of-living issues over the Christmas break then there are other local services and statutory bodies that may be able to help.
Read about what services may help in our series of area and issue-specific signposting guides. You can also see what your nearest service may be on our map of social action across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Find both here: www.caritassalford.org.uk/service/in-your-parish

 


For donations and fundraising queries:

We politely request that all donations are dropped off at our day centres and food pantry between 2pm and 4pm weekdays.  Please see individual service details above, for which days we will be closed over Christmas and New Year.

To help with food item donations or shopping vouchers, please click here to read which we are most in need of at this time.

Or please click here to make a monetary donation – we promise to use it where the need is greatest.

The last day for donating food and/or supermarket shopping vouchers for the Lalley food pantry is Thursday 17 December please.

New items of clothing or underwear, gift sets and boxes of chocolates for adults for Christmas dinners and parties would be gratefully received before Friday 18 December please, so that we can have them wrapped by our elves or organised as prizes.

Donations of individual items of toiletries (not wrapped or boxed please) are used all year around and can be delivered at any time, including after New Year when we reopen.  Thank you.

Your Christmas financial donation or direct debit can be set up on our website throughout the Christmas period at any time of day or night by clicking here.

Our fundraisers will also be available by telephone, apart from on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Simply telephone 0161 817 2250 and press 1 for fundraising, or email fundraising@caritassalford.org.uk if you’d like a callback or freepost envelope sending out.

You can address a plain envelope with the words FREEPOST CARITAS SALFORD in capital letters, with no other wording, and no stamp, and this will reach us.

Cheques are still accepted, made payable to Caritas Salford, and posted with your name and postal address to Caritas House, 4 Nobby Stiles Drive, Manchester M4 4FA.  If you would like our charity to claim the gift aid, please let us know and confirm your full name, house number and postcode.

 

Thank you for your all your support this year.  If you wish to find out more about how you can help all year round please visit the Get Involved section of our website.

We wish you a very happy Christmas and all the best for 2027.


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