Updates and News | Cheltenham Foodbank

28 Nov 23

Donating for Christmas

We are gratefully receiving any Christmas donations of non perishable food, or toiletries. If you are donating items for Christmas, please could you ensure the Use by date is past 25 Dec 23. Are you thinking of organising of a Secret Santa at your workplace or organisation? How about a variation on that theme where […]

8 Nov 23

Planning for Christmas

Now that Harvest Festival, Halloween and Fireworks are finished it feels like we can start looking forward to the Christmas period. If you would like to donate Christmas food items we’d be glad to receive them. We will be giving out any advent calendars we have in the last week of November and then any […]

31 Oct 23

Happy Halloween

Thank you to everyone who has been collecting for us, we have been fortunate indeed to receive some wonderful Harvest donations. Our thanks this week to St James’s school for their fantastic contribution – it all helps and will make such a direct difference to families and people in need in Cheltenham. Our thanks also […]

26 Oct 23

Financial donation via our website

Hurrah – after a lot of technical problems (which we won’t trouble you with as they are very tedious), the functionality to accept financial donations is now back up and running properly. We welcome donations of food or money; we use the money to purchase items to fill gaps in our parcels which food donations […]

18 Oct 23

And another fabulous week of donations…..

Big shout out and thank you to Charlton King Infant School for the best decorated donation of the year :):) The children had beautifully decorated the boxes and bags containing their donations and these certainly brighten spirits. Thank you so much. Thank you also to St Matthew and the Minster for their marvellous donation – […]

10 Oct 23

This week in brief….

Wow – what a great week for harvest donations. Over just a few days we received literally well over a ton of donations and we are so appreciative. A big THANK YOU to all those who are collecting on our behalf, to those who are donating and also to our volunteers who are working hard […]

4 Oct 23

Harvest collections

A few more collections have arrived…. thank you to Coventry Building Society staff who collected items on our behalf …. and thank you to CoreTech staff who also collect regularly on our behalf…. Thank you to the staff, children and parents of Swindon Village and Leckhampton Primary schools for their fabulous Harvest donations. They are […]

28 Sep 23

Thank you….And we need soup!

Harvest Festival donations are starting to arrive and it’s fabulous. Thank you to the Presbyterian Church, St Marks, and St Luke’s whose Harvest collections were brought in this week. We, and the Foodbank clients, really appreciate it. There is still plenty of time if you wanted to arrange a collection in your workplace/organisation…. we can […]

14 Sep 23

Harvest Festival 2023

Could you organise a Harvest Festival collection in your workplace / club / family? Doesn’t have to be huge, we would really welcome all and any donations of non-perishable items as there are many in Cheltenham who are going to struggle during the winter. We have staff on site at the Cheltenham Foodbank on Tues/Weds/Thu […]

14 Sep 23

Most urgently needed items….

Tinned soup, baked beans, rice…. and also shampoo, shower gel and toothbrushes THANK YOU

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