News | Stratford-upon-Avon Foodbank

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. […]

27 Jan 24

Meon Vale and Bishopton – food parcel collection times

Our foodbank covers a wide rural area. We know it can be difficult to get into the centre of Stratford to collect a food parcel. That’s why we use our foodbank van to bring food parcels to you. During each week in addition to our four food parcel distribution sessions at the Fred Winter Centre, […]

26 Jan 24

Stratford Town Trust Grant Award

Stratford upon Avon Foodbank have received support for our Money Advice Project from Stratford Town Trust. In the lastest grant round that ended in September 2023 Stratford Town Trust have supported our Money Advice Project which is run in partnership with Citizens Advice South Warwickshire. Our Money Advice Project is available to support all our Foodbank […]

11 Jan 24

Volunteer Recruitment Event

Do you fancy doing something different this year? Would you be interested in learning about volunteer opportunities at the Stratford upon Avon Foodbank? We have a host of different volunteer roles, one of them might really appeal to you… Why not come along to our volunteer recruitment event at the Fred Winter Centre, 41 Guild […]

29 Dec 23

Foodbank – reopens

We will be open today, Friday 29 December for food parcel collections at the Fred Winter Centre from 12.00-1.30PM – we are then closed again until Tuesday lunchtime when normal opening hours resume.

28 Dec 23

Foodbank – emergency closure – Thu 28 December

CLOSED Thursday 28 December 5-6.30PM session Unfortunately we are having to stay closed today as the The Fred Winter Centre (Stratford-upon-Avon) has no water. There are contractors working to try and resolve this situation and we hope to be able to reopen for session at 12 noon tomorrow, Friday 29 December. . We will post […]

18 Dec 23

Foodbank Christmas Opening – food parcel collection

CHRISTMAS OPENING – please take a moment to look at the times we are closed for collecting food parcels – we are open as normal with these exceptions: **Fred Winter Centre** Mon 25 Dec – CLOSED Tue 26 Dec – CLOSED Mon 1 Jan – CLOSED **Bishopton Community Centre** Mon 25 Dec – CLOSED Mon […]

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