Posted on: 30th September 2026

Leeds City Mission (LCM) has collected and distributed nearly 2000 apples in a pioneering harvest project over the last four weeks!

Every day over the harvest season baskets of apples have been displayed outside the Leeds City Mission (LCM) Compassion Centre in Mistress Lane, Armley.

Supporting churches, local residents with apple trees in their gardens, allotment holders and others have arrived at the LCM Centre to donate baskets of apples.  Individual supporters have foraged and hand picked the fruit from wild apple trees.  All combined, the City Mission has garnered and distributed an incredible grand total of 1,961 apples for consumption.

People in need wanting fresh fruit to eat or to make homemade healthy eating options such as apple pies, apple crumbles and apple sauce have made their way to the Mission premises to collect supplies of this seasonal fruit.

The City Mission Centre manager Sinclair Martin explained “This huge quantity of freshly picked apples has enabled LCM to connect with many people in great need.  Our harvest project has been an outstanding success.  We have provided food for the body and this has provided opportunities for gospel engagement with people on the margins of life”

Manager Sinclair Martin said that the City Mission runs a Food Bank at its premises supplying tins and packets of food to people in need. The provision of the huge quantity of apples has helped the Mission extend its range to provide fresh, healthy fruit to people on the margins of life.

Leeds City Mission is a multi-church Christian agency committed to gospel outreach in word and deed.  Its projects include a foodbank, charity shop, clothing store, homeless shower, hygiene shelf, street evangelism, support for smaller churches, prison and nursing home chaplaincy and other projects.  It also runs the Christian Book & Card Booth from its premises in Mistress Lane supplying bibles, books and greetings cards to the Christian public in Leeds.

Accompanying photographs show Leeds City Mission premises in Mistress Lane, Armley.  Also LCM Centre Manager with some of the apples given away by Leeds City Mission.