Colchester Foodbank

Please help the foodbank, we are in urgent need:
Food items 1. Longlife fruit juice cartons 2. Tea bags (box of 80s)... 3. Small bags of rice 4. Tins of fish 5. Pasta Sauce 6. Tinned tomatoes 7. Biscuits 8. Tinned Fruit 9. Small jars of Coffee 10. Bottles of squash 11. Jars of jam and/or Peanut butter
Non-food items 1. Toilet Rolls (We ran out at the start of March) 2. Deodorant masculine/feminine/unisex 3. Washing capsules/tablets/liquid/powder 4. Shaving gel/cream/foam (Male and female clients) 5. Nappies size 4/5/6 6. Washing up liquid 7. Cat Food
Please let people know what donations would help us most!
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Please help let people know...
We are very low on these food items: 1. Tinned Fish! 2. Longlife cartons of juice... 3. Jars of Jam/peanut butter 4. Boxes of 80 tea bags and 5. Small bags of rice
We are very low on these household items: 1. Toilet rolls (We ran out altogether last week!) 2. Deodorant 3. Washing powder/liquid/capsules/tablets 4. Shaving cream/gel/foam 5. Washing up liquid
We simply couldn't function without supporters like you dear reader, your incredibly generous help keep us going, we are so grateful for every hour, every tin or packet and every pound that local people are able to donate to support us.
Following the full roll out of Universal Credit, we are the busiest we have ever been. We are non-partisan but we do have a simple message to all politicians and the media on Universal Credit this is, that the current five week wait for first payment is too long! #fiveweekstoolong
If you would like to join the Foodbank Team? We are particularly looking for volunteers on Saturday or every other Saturday and those who can help with Fundraising.
If you might like to join us and you'd like to express an interest in volunteering at the Foodbank, please fill out the Application form below. Perhaps you would like to pop by for an informal meeting with us at the Foodbank. We would absolutely love to hear from you. https://colchester.foodbank.org.uk/give-h elp/volunteer
😇 If you have any questions, please just let us know.
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We are open Easter Saturday!
Reminder we are closed on Bank Holidays! This includes Good Friday and Easter Monday.

Great interview on BBC Look East with Polly Preacher

Tell us your story!
We want to collect our 10th Anniversary memories. So if you or someone you know has either used our Foodbank service, donated to us, volunteered for us or fundraised for us over this last decade, please tell us about this? Either in writing, in a picture, in an MP3 recording or a video file. Please share this post so more people will have the opportunity to be included in telling their story
... Please send your story to us either by email info@colchester.foodbank.org.uk or via social media. Please tell us if you wish to remain anonymous, are prepared to give your name or indeed would be happy for the press to contact you, to hear your story.
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Please help! We are running out of Longlife Juice cartons!
Also we are very low on: Boxes of 80 tea bags and Small bags of rice!
... If you would like to join the Foodbank Team? We are particularly looking for volunteers on Saturday or every other Saturday and those who can help with Fundraising.
If you are or have been thinking about joining us and you'd like to express an interest in volunteering at the Foodbank, please fill out the Application form below. Perhaps you would like to pop by for an informal meeting with us at the Foodbank. We would absolutely love to hear from you. https://colchester.foodbank.org.uk/give-h elp/volunteer
Our volunteers are the lifeblood of our charity, we simply couldn't function without their incredible work sorting and organising the donations from generous local people who keep us going, we are so grateful for every hour, every tin or packet and every pound that is donated to us. Please come and join us!
😇 If you have any questions, please just let us know.
Tags: #Cartons #Juice #LonglifeJuice #Saturday #Volunteers #Foodbank #Foodbanks #HiddenHunger #5WeeksTooLong #TrussellTrust #UniversalCredit #FoodPoverty #Hunger #donationswelcome #charity #endhunger #fighthunger #stopukhunger #endukhunger #destitution #SocialPolicy
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This week till we run out on top of our emergency food parcels for local people in crisis, we are giving all our clients' an Easter Egg each, which have been donated by lovely local people. If you are willing please do give small Easter Egg(s).
Tags: #Easter #EasterEgg #Colchester #Foodbank #Charity #Lent #CremeEggs #KinderEggs #EasterEggs #Cadburys #Milka #Mars #Nestle #Chocolate #Chocolat #HotelChocolat #Thorntons #Lindt #Chococo #Godiva #Montezuma #SylviaAndTerry #GreenAndBlack #Celebrations #QualityStreet #Prestat #MooFree #Guylian #FerreroRocher #MontyBojangles

Ten things you could do to help Colchester Foodbank charity, 10 that don't cost you and 10 that do.
Ten things that cost little or no money, just a little you can do to help support Colchester Foodbank
1. Organise a fundraising event for the Foodbank (marking our tenth anniversary year) in real life or on facebook: www.facebook.com/fund/FoodBankColchester. ..
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Colchester Foodbank charity is now open on Saturdays, from 10am to 2pm.
Due to increasing demand and to help us cope with Universal Credit full roll out and the transitional effects of whatever our Government does or does not do about Brexit.
Thank you for featuring developments at the Foodbank:... BBC Look East: featured by Leigh Milner on Thursday night twitter.com/EyupLeigh/status/109851144519 1462912 East Anglian Daily Times: https://www.eadt.co.uk/…/foodbank-open- on-saturdays-in-colc… Colchester Gazette: https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/…/174467 35.colchester-foodba…
Tags: #Colchester #Foodbank #Wivenhoe #Brightlingsea #SocialPolicy #TrussellTrust #Hunger #charity #ColchesterFoodbank #FoodbankSaurday #FoodbankFriday #UniversalCredit #Brexit #Foodbanks #HiddenHunger #EndUKHunger #StopUKHunger #poverty #Planning #Preparation #Ready #plan
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Sunday 17th February is National Random Acts of Kindness Day.
I’m sure there are lots of ways you can think of to do this 😊
One way you could show kindness to clients in crisis we work with would be to donate a food packet or tin or toiletry product in one of our supermarket collection baskets. If you can’t do that why not click on our website https://colchester.foodbank.org.uk/give-h elp/donate-money and sign up to make a regular monthly financial donation or a one-off donati...on through Facebook?
Please share...
Thank you!
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Do love yourself. Do love your friends and family. ...and if you are willing, please do love your local Foodbank!
... #LoveYourFoodbank #TrussellTrust #ValentinesDay #Love #Charity #Help #Foodbank
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What a lovely thing to do by Wivenhoe Bookshop! Do you know someone who might like to do this?
Link: facebook.com/248248398553231/posts/229306 7280737989 Tags: #LoveYourFoodbank #Valentine #Wivenhoe #Books #Bookshop #WivenhoeFoodbank #ColchesterFoodbank #Foodbank #Foodbanks #Charity #Charities #Colchester #sharethelove #lovewins #letusbekind

If you think the 5 week wait for Universal Credit is too long, please click the link to help #Foodbanks see an end to the 5 week wait for #UniversalCredit! http://action.trusselltrust.org/5weekstoo long #5weekstooLong

Thank you so much to everyone who offered to volunteer their time and come to our open day Saturday 2nd February between 10am and 2pm, we look forward to seeing you, thank you! More details: facebook.com/events/354839061764167 #volunteering #community #givingback #helpingothers #philanthropy #kindness #Saturday #volunteer #service #PublicService #CivicService #LocalCommunity #CommonGood #Goodwill #Foodbank #Hunger

Do you or someone you know have a special occasion to mark, coming up? Perhaps a birthday, special event, memorial, wedding, anniversary, birth? If you haven't before, may we ask you consider marking your special event with a Facebook fundraiser for Colchester Foodbank charity? Link: https://www.facebook.com/fund/FoodBankCol chester Please Share this to help encourage others to help us raise money on Facebook for the Foodbank. No pressure and thank you for thinking of us!
... Tags: #Foodbank #Poverty #Hunger #HiddenHunger #FiveWeeksToLong #UniversalCredit #Foodpoverty #foodbanks #Colchester #Wivenhoe #Brightlingsea #Charity #UniversalCredit #5WeeksTooLong #Anniversary #Birthday #Memorial #Wedding #Birth #Essex #NorthEastEssex #Tendring #Fundraise #RaiseMoney #GoodCause
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Next Saturday 2 February we are holding a Volunteer Open day at Colchester Foodbank from 10am to 2pm for potential volunteers, would you or someone you know like to come and find out more about volunteering opportunities with your local Foodbank? https://www.facebook.com/events/354839061 764167
Tags: #Volunteer #Opportunities #Charity #Foodbank #TrussellTrust #Essex #Colchester #Wivenhoe #Brightlingsea #Foodbanks #GoodCause #FoodPoverty #Poverty #Destitution #SocialPolicy #HiddenHunger #Opportunity #Volunteers #CommonGood #GoodWill #DoTheRightThing