vickyeaton | Cheltenham Foodbank

31 Oct 24

Reverse Advent Calendar

Could you do a Reverse Advent Calendar in your workplace or a community or friend group? Donating one item a day instead of (or as well as!) opening your advent calendar….. We can email a copy so you have a good version to work from….. We can come and pick up any items you […]

23 Oct 24

Harvest Donations – Could you co-ordinate a collection?

Whilst the Foodbank is an all-year provider, Harvest Festival is a time of year traditionally focusing on donating produce and the donations from this generosity will keep us going for a while. So a big thank you to all who are collecting for us for Harvest Festivals. The donations are amazing and very appreciated. Donations […]

22 Aug 24

Where has the Summer gone??!

Gosh – it has been a busy few months, time has flown by and I hope this finds you well. We had a very successful 3 days collecting donations from Tesco customers in July – a big thanks to Tesco’s for accommodating us, to the Volunteers for their hard work and to the customers for […]

20 Jun 24

Thank you to our Volunteers

It was Volunteers Week this month and we enjoyed a lovely cuppa and slice of cake with our wonderful team to say a big thank you. Organisations like the Foodbank just wouldn’t work if it wasn’t for the kind people who give their time each week and the kind people in the community who donate […]

16 May 24

We’ll be at ASDA this weekend

Hello everyone, some of our lovely volunteers will be at ASDA this weekend (Friday/Saturday) inviting shoppers to purchase an item for the Foodbank whilst they are shopping. Don’t hesitate to stop and say hello – it’s always a pleasure to be greeted by a shopper with a smile.

25 Apr 24

Foodbank Allotment

We are very excited that the season’s first produce from our Foodbank allotment has just arrived. Nothing beats the fresh fruit and veg grown by our wonderful green fingered volunteers. Last year our Foodbank clients enjoyed a whole range of produce from tomatoes, kale, rhubarb, carrots and potatoes just to name a few. It’s so […]

11 Apr 24

New: Foodbank Supporters page

We are so grateful for all the fantastic donations that we receive from lovely people all across Cheltenham and so we have added a new ‘Foodbank Supporters’ page in our Give Help section to say thank you to those who donate. We will regularly update the page so please check it out to see which […]

14 Mar 24

See you at the Supermarket…..

Some of our volunteer team will be at Waitrose on Weds 20th March and then at Tesco’s on Thu 21st, Fri 22nd and Sat 23rd March, handing out our shopping lists to supermarket customers. The idea is that, if at all possible, the customer adds an item from our shopping list to their shopping and […]

29 Feb 24

A lovely birthday party donation for the Foodbank

We have just received an absolutely lovely donation from a young lad. He was having a birthday party to celebrate his 9th birthday and asked his friends to bring donations for the Foodbank instead of presents. What a wonderfully kind idea. We were extremely grateful and really enjoyed showing him and his family around the Foodbank […]

22 Feb 24

Supermarket collections

Thank you to all the wonderful shoppers at Asda last Saturday who donated items to the Foodbank. Our dedicated volunteers handed out shopping lists as shoppers entered the store and so many shoppers kindly bought items from our list to donate – THANK YOU. But don’t worry – you haven’t missed the opportunity to do […]

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