News | Clay Cross Foodbank

18 Dec 19

Christmas Opening

We are open Friday 20th December at Community of Christ as normal. Then open there again on the 27th December and 3rd January. 7th January we reopen at St Bartholomews Church and are open as normal from then on.

4 Dec 18

Christmas Opening

We will be open as normal until the 21st December, we will then open next on the following Friday 28th December at 1pm. We then go back to our normal opening hours from Friday the 4th January.

27 Nov 18

Christmas National Collection

This weekend we will be collecting at Clay Cross Tesco, asking shoppers if they can donate the items we are shortest of. Currently that list is *Long life Fruit Juice *Tinned Fish *Rice Pudding *Tinned Fruit * Tinned Meat *Tea/Coffee *Biscuits *Jam

9 Nov 18

Christmas Support Needed!

We are looking for people to help us prepare for a busy Christmas. We need help with collecting food at our Tesco Collection on the 29,30 November and the 1st December, if you can help out for a hour or two please let us know. We are also hoping people will be willing to collect […]

6 Sep 18

Harvest is nearly here

We’ve had a busy summer and given out lots of food, meaning we are currently very short of tinned soup, fish, fruit and rice pudding. Donations can be left in our box at tesco (which means we get an extra 20%) or one of our foodbank centers. If you are thinking of organising a harvest […]

14 Aug 18

Summer Fairs

We’ve had a lovely time visiting some of the local summer fairs with our fundraising stall this year, we managed to raise over £500 and had some great conversations with people that we met. Do let us know if you could offer us a place at one you are involved with next year, we’d love to […]

25 Apr 18

Help Needed!

We are looking for people to help us at our warehouse on Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings, this will involve sorting donations and putting them onto our shelves, and helping to manage our warehouse. If you are able to spare a few hours please let us know., we may be able to provide transport from […]

24 Apr 18

Numbers Fed 2017-2018

During this year we have given 2,493 people emergency food parcels, run 3 Eat Well Spend Less courses to improve clients cooking and budgeting skills, and started a project to offer low cost food provision to those that are on a very tight budget. The main reason people have needed support this year is that […]

20 Nov 17

Volunteers Needed

We will be collecting at Tesco Clay Cross on the 30th November and the 1st and 2nd December between 9am and 6pm. This is part of the National Christmas Collection, and people will be collecting in all Tesco stores for Trussel Trust Foodbanks or Fareshare. If you are able to spare an hour or two […]

20 Nov 17

Harvest Thanks

We’d like to say a big thank you to the 34 Churches, Schools and Community groups, who donated 3000kg of food for us to give out those in need in and around Clay Cross. This is a harvest record for us, so thank you so much!

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