News | Faversham Foodbank

16 Nov 21

Bumper harvest for Foodbank

Gaynor Moss with the boxes of food donated by St Michaels and All Angels Church Throwley.

Ten churches and 10 schools pledged their harvest collections to Faversham Foodbank, which totalled a staggering 1863kg of food. “As well as everyone who donated through their church or school, we also have to thank our tireless volunteers who keep the Foodbank running,” Stephen Palmer, the Foodbank’s Project Manager said. “The huge number of harvest […]

1 Sep 21

Summer Newsletter

Dear friends, Things have been running smoothly at the Foodbank over the last few months. Demand for food parcels is still high and we have given out a total of 5886 meals to people from April to July. This is a 31.1% increase from the same period last year. As we’re sure you are aware, […]

23 Mar 21

March Newsletter

We can’t believe that we are nearly four months into 2021. The beginning of the year has been busy at the Foodbank and, sadly, this is largely due to increased demand for food parcels, with more people struggling financially due to hardships caused by the pandemic. However, there have also been some incredibly exciting new […]

25 Apr 20

Changes for Covid 19

Since the Governments imposition of lock down we have been running on minimal staffing at our distribution centre and we are seeing a slight increase in the need for our services. There has also been an in crease in request for household cleaning products and we would appreciate more donations of these.

17 Jan 20

Food we can use

We were recently asked what sort of food Faversham Foodbank could use, due to the storage facilitates we have we can only take long life room temperature stored food stuff whether this be dried or canned. We CAN NOT take fresh chilled or frozen foods we do not have the storage facilitates for this sort of foodstuff.

6 Dec 19

We will end hunger in the UK

We are a Trussell Trust Food Bank who state the following: Our aim is to end hunger and poverty in the UK. We support a nationwide network of food banks and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in […]

25 Nov 19

Thank You Tesco Customers

We would like to say a big thank you to the customers of Tesco Faversham for their donations over the in store winter collection 21st to 23rd November who contributed a total of 1311.9kg. This equates to 3123.5 meals we will also receive a donation from Tesco equivalent to 20% of value of the goods based […]

14 Nov 19

Our Pledge

At our food bank we will always work to provide vital support for local people while our help is needed, but all political parties must pledge in this election to protect people from hunger. Here are the Trussell Trust’s top 3 priorities + Ending the five week wait for Universal Credit + Ensuring benefit payments […]

17 Sep 19

What can I do with all my extra plastic bags?

The Sunday Times Home readers shared their top tips in answer to this question the second answer was: Jane Clarke, via email Donate them to your nearest food bank. Search for one at trusselltrust.org. See the whole article here

13 Sep 19

Simple things cause crisis

A dad speaks to The Mirror who says he was forced to use a food bank due to rising school uniform costs

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