News | Clay Cross Foodbank

26 Jul 23

Current Needs

We’ve had a really busy few weeks, that have followed a first 6 months of the year with a 20% increase on the previous year. We are struggling to keep enough food on the shelves to keep offering our services to those who need them. Our shortages list is now longer than the list of […]

26 Apr 23

End of Year Stats Release

On Wednesday 26 April 2023, we released our stats on the number of emergency food parcels that Clay Cross Foodbank provided within our local community between April 2022 and March 2023. The alarming new figures reveal that we have provided 3656 emergency food parcels to people who couldn’t afford the essentials over the last year […]

3 Apr 23

Easter Opening

We are open as normal friday 7th April, but if you need a voucher please get one beforehand as our agencies will be closed for the bank holiday. Vouchers can be obtained from Citizens Advice at their drop in sessions open 10-1pm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at North East Derbyshire Citizen Advice office at Clay […]

23 Mar 23

Derbyshire Times Visit the foodbank

We were happy to welcome both a reporter and the next week a photographer from the derbyshire times to our Friday Foodbank sessions recently. They talked to many of our volunteers and our staff and produced the following article . Do have a read to see what we all had to say.

12 Dec 22

Christmas Opening

We have only two changes to our opening times this Christmas. We are open for two hours on the 23rd from 1pm-3pm and will be closed on the bank holiday tuesday (27th December). Our opening times poster can be downloaded below. Opening Christmas 2022

1 Nov 22

Two ways to help us celebrate advent!

We are looking for donations of advent calendars to give out from the 22 November, these can placed in our tesco donation boxes or brought to foodbank sessions. We are also sharing an updated Reverse Advent Calendar for those that would like to collect in the lead up to christmas. We ask for them to […]

13 Jun 22

Tesco Collection 30th June-2nd July

We’re looking for volunteers to help us during the annual Tesco food Collection. With food and energy prices soaring, this collection will help us gather donations for our emergency food parcels for people in Clay Cross and surrounding areas. Our figures from the first of January show we fed 72% more this year than last […]

9 Mar 22

Exciting News!

We have been awarded funding through Trussell Trust to employ an advice worker to support our clients to improve their financial situations and help them get back on their feet. We are working in partnership with North East Derbyshire Citizens Advice to provide this support and they are recruiting for a new member of staff […]

9 Mar 22

Volunteer Training Dates

We have arranged for volunteer training sessions to be run on two different dates in the near future. We are running an evening session 6:30-8:30pm on Thursday 31st March, and a daytime session 11am-1pm on Monday 4th April. Both sessions are taking place in Clay Cross, please email us on [email protected] or give us a […]

31 Jan 22

Most Needed Items

We are most in need of carrier bags to pack our parcels in, if you have spare at home or can arrange a collection at work or at a club that you attend that would be brilliant. (We do ask people to return the bags we give them, but they can only be used so […]

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