Sister Rita to the Rescue - Season 2

Season 2

Sister Rita Lee is back with a vengeance as she hatches more ambitious plans than ever to improve the lives of the people of Collyhurst - and beyond.

Known to some as Attila the Nun, and others as The Formidable Sister Rita, the no-nonsense nun is a unique troubleshooter, running a drop-in centre and food bank in one of the poorest parts of Manchester.

Stripped across a week, this observational series follows Sister Rita and her team as they try to help people struggling with a range of difficulties including debt, managing on benefits, and lacking the most basic possessions. Often they're the final port of call for those in the community with nowhere else to turn. But despite the odds, the support and advice the series captures them giving is genuinely life-changing.

This series begins with an insight into Sister Rita's softer side as she's surprised and touched by the huge response from the previous series.

Not one to rest on her laurels, she is soon back to business, coming to the aid of a young single mum who needs some basic furniture for her home, and helping a woman desperate to get a job after a two year search.

But this time, on top of her everyday work helping individuals, Sister Rita has an even bigger project in mind. She's set her sights on establishing a way of supplying the Lalley Centre's food bank with a continuous supply of fresh fruit and vegetables, setting up an allotment she hopes will get the community eating more healthily. But it's not easy rallying enough volunteers to get the project up and running.

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Episodes5

DatesOct 31, 2016 - Nov 4, 2016

Previous Season

Episodes

Season 2Episode 145 min

Episode 1

The second series begins with an insight into Sister Rita's softer side as she's surprised and touched by the huge response from the previous series.

Oct 31, 2016

Season 2Episode 245 min

Episode 2

Not content with launching the allotment, Sister Rita takes her ambition to new heights when she decides to transform the row of empty shops next to the food bank.

But not everyone is convinced that even she can pull off a project of this scale. We also meet Donna and Kevin, regulars at the Lalley Centre, who discover that volunteering at the allotment sparks a love of gardening that could lead to new opportunities. And the first crop is given out at the food bank, much to the delight of Sister Rita.

Nov 1, 2016

Season 2Episode 345 min

Episode 3

With two enormous projects on the go - regenerating the row of shops next to the food bank and setting up the community allotment - Sister Rita launches a a cookery course to ensure that people using the food bank learn to cook healthy meals.

She also helps to transform the life of Adrian, a man living with severe depression since the death of his father.

Nov 2, 2016

Season 2Episode 445 min

Episode 4

When Sister Rita meets a retired fork lift truck driver offering free training for some of the people in her area searching for jobs, it creates a life-changing opportunity for one of her own volunteers.

The impact of Sister Rita's work outside her own community is recognised when she's asked to officially open a food bank in Edinburgh. But the nun goes on the war path when she hears rumours that produce from the food bank is being sold at a local market, and is forced to introduce a new system to stop anyone taking advantage.

And as Sister Rita takes some of the regular visitors to the Lalley centre on a day trip to the seaside, for some of them, it's the first time that they've ever seen the sea.

Nov 3, 2016

Season 2Episode 545 min

Episode 5

After the successes of an unusually busy summer, Sister Rita decides to give the allotment a grand opening, holding a harvest festival on the grounds.

Sister Rita invites the great and the good of Collyhurst to celebrate what the community has achieved.

Meanwhile, the nun galvanises a team of volunteers to transform the exterior of the shops she hopes to revitalise, getting rid of the graffiti and planting new shrubs as she waits on tenterhooks to see if the council will approve her plans.

Nov 4, 2016

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