News
16 Apr 24
Meon Vale Village Hall parcel collection sessions every Tuesday
From Tuesday 16 April, the Foodbank food parcel collection sessions move from our van in the car park into the Meon Vale Village Hall, we will be there each Tuesday from 10-11AM for you to bring your voucher and collect your food parcel and meet a variety of different support agencies who are joining these […]
10 Apr 24
Morrisons, Alcester Road – a big thank you
A huge thank you to Morrisons customers & store staff yesterday for supporting our Stratford upon Avon Foodbank food drive at Morrisons.We had an amazing 304kgs of food donated and £118 in cash – food drives are really important & help us increase donations.So far this year we have supported 1383 people in our local community and all the donations […]
7 Apr 24
MORRISONS FOOD DRIVE – 9 APRIL
On Tuesday 9th April from 9am-5pm we will be at Morrisons, Stratford upon Avon running a food drive and raising awareness of how we are helping people in our local community. Our fabulous volunteers will be in the entrance to Morrisons handing out shopping lists of our most needed items. In the first three months […]
25 Mar 24
Closed Good Friday and Easter Monday
Our last distribution session before the Easter weekend is Thursday 28th March. We are closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday. This also means we will not be at Bishopton Community Centre on Easter Monday. Our warehouse session will also be closed on Easter Monday. We will open again on Tuesday 2nd April for distribution […]
20 Feb 24
Campaigns and Community Organiser Vacancy
Collectively the Trussell Trust Foodbank’s in Warwickshire have secured funding for a Campaign and Community Organiser post to work with us to build and deliver campaigning strategies in the county as we build a movement to end the need for foodbanks. The Campaign and Community Organiser position will be based at Rugby Foodbank, which is […]
8 Feb 24
Fantastic support from Redrow Midlands Community Fund
A massive thank you to Redrow Midlands for giving us £750 from their community fund. We are very grateful and will use the donation to provide training for our amazing volunteer workforce. The fund, which was launched last year, provides organisations in the region with donations to help them thrive. Elaine Cartwright, Sales Director at Redrow Midlands, […]
5 Feb 24
Half Term help for families
Half term starts next week Monday 12 Feb, for lots of families this means they need to find money for extra meals during the week where their children would normally be receiving school meals. From Thursday 8 February, if you have children under 16 shown on your foodbank voucher, in addition to your normal food […]
2 Feb 24
Food parcel support – January 2024
In January we gave out 533 food parcels to local people who can’t make ends meet, this is the second highest month on record for our Foodbank in Stratford. We gave out 6.5 tonnes of food We really need more people to put just one item in our donation baskets at the supermarket each time […]
1 Feb 24
Most Needed – February 2024
Our most needed items for February. We have really struggled for donations in January, so if you can support the foodbank with an item from your weekly shop, we would be very grateful. Thank you
1 Feb 24
AdLent Appeal 2024
With Christmas over, our Foodbank has already started to see a dip in donations and we are expecting this to continue until Easter. After the expense of Christmas and with the colder weather, many people who were just about managing to afford the essentials now find they can’t. People are choosing between heating or eating. […]