Harry Maguire presents award at Pride of Manchester event

Speaking about her unselfish acts to help those most in need, the 68-year-old said: “It’s hard but I have to help them. I know people are struggling. I have seen it and heard it. I talk to people secretly. Customers come in and say: ‘Mama Flo, I’m struggling. That’s all I have’. I don’t even count it because I know it’s not enough but I give them the meal.”

Her Buxton Road restaurant, Mama Flo’s, with its signature curry, goat and brown stew chicken, has been given the thumbs up by famous faces including footballers Kyle Walker and Maguire himself.

But for Florence, everyone in the community counts. She added: ”When I was a little girl, my dad would make food abundantly. We’d feed all the people in the village.”