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Ben Arnold

Fundraising raffle offers lifetime roller skating pass, hotel stays, festival tickets and vouchers for Manchester’s best restaurants

Prizes including a lifetime pass to Good Life Skates, dinner, drinks and a room at the soon-to-open Treehouse Hotel, weekend passes for the Blue Dot festival and hundreds of pounds in vouchers for the city’s top restaurants are being offered in a fundraising raffle.

The raffle is the annual prize giveaway organised by non-profit organisation Eat Well MCR and the Manchester Food and Drink Festival. There are 19 prizes confirmed so far, with more to be added over the next week.

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Some of the highlights include:

  • Weekend tickets for two people to the 2023 Bluedot Festival
  • £100 to spend on food and drink at Ramona or The Firehouse
  • Full menu for two at Flawd including a glass of sparkling wine
  • £120 to spend on food and drink at Hello Oriental
  • A cooking course at Food Sorcery
  • £100 Voucher to spend on food and drink at Escape To Freight Island
  • A lifetime skate pass for Good Life Skates at Escape To Freight Island
  • £100 to spend at Elnecot
  • Dinner for 2 at Sam’s Chophouse

Raffle tickets cost £10, and can be bought here, with the winning tickets being drawn on October 3.

Eat Well co-founder Mary-Ellen McTague said: “We’re so grateful to the people that have donated prizes, it’s a brilliant list! Eat Well MCR is self-funded, rather than government funded, so fundraising activities like the raffle are essential for our survival.”

The non-profit started during the first lockdown, after former Fat Duck chef Mary-Ellen rallied local chefs to donate the food that was poised to be thrown away when restaurants were forced to close due to the pandemic. She then enlisted the help of restaurant kitchens across the city to help cook meals for those facing food poverty.

Since it launched, it’s provided a staggering 70,000 meals for people who would otherwise struggle to feed themselves and their families.

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