News
9 Apr 24
Schneider Electric staff volunteer in the warehouse
As part of the Kier Construction (Kier) contract at Full Sutton Prison, the construction company has asked it’s suppliers to volunteer locally and we at York Foodbank are one of the beneficiaries of that time. The latest to volunteer were Faye and Steffi from Schneider Electric Both arrived suitably togged up for a cold/rainy day and […]
4 Apr 24
Barratt Homes supports York Foodbank
We are delighted to have received a cheque from Barratt Homes for £3000. The business had made the donation and brought a large cheque into the foodbank warehouse to present it to Adam Raffell, our manager, and Maxine Taylor, our warehouse coordinator (pictured below). Barratt Developments Yorkshire East made the donation. Most of our food […]
26 Mar 24
Easter 2024 opening times
York Foodbank opening times for the centres over the Easter weekend: We are open Easter Saturday morning but are closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Thursday 28th March OPEN 14:00-16:00 St Joseph’s, Clifton Friday 29th March CLOSED Saturday 30th March OPEN 10:00-12:00 The Belfrey @ the de Grey Rooms […]
26 Mar 24
Halifax College at UoY nominates York Foodbank as charity partner
We are delighted to announce that Halifax College at the University of York has nominated us here at the foodbank in York as their charity partner. Their charity events started with a short visit to us at the foodbank to get a feel of how the operation runs, and then a food collection was done […]
12 Mar 24
Diversity tour supports York foodbank
The dance group Diversity are on a UK tour titled ‘Supernova’ and are supporting Trussell Trust foodbanks across the UK. In their York date, at the Grand Opera House, the foodbank team were on hand on Thursday and Friday 7/8 March to collect money and food donations kindly donated by the audience. As an added […]
29 Feb 24
A call out for donations – stock reducing
The March data is in and shows that in the month we sent out 5.9t of food but only received 5.3t of donations. We were similarly around 5-700kg down in January and February, meaning that since the start of the year we are around 1.8t lower than at the start of the year. This reduction […]
23 Feb 24
Disruption to Service Tuesday 27th February – Vineyard Closed
Please be aware, our weekly opening at Vineyard church (10-12 on Fawcett St) is closed on 27th February only, returning next week as normal. All other locations as open as normal this week on Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Saturday (See: https://york.foodbank.org.uk/locations/). Please contact us if you will struggle to access help as a result of […]
15 Feb 24
Our partner organisation Citizens Advice York is hiring
One of our partner organisations, Citizens Advice York, has been contracted to provide an advisor to Foodbank openings and the main position for this instrumental role is currently vacant. The advisor has been instrumental in helping clients to move forwards and access help and support to improve their circumstances. Citizens Advice York is looking to […]
15 Feb 24
HM Prison Service supplies bags to York Foodbank
Over the last year we have had two big deliveries of bags made by those at HMP/YOI at Low Newton, an all-female prison in County Durham, the latest came in this week. The bags are made from Ocado’s old uniforms which they recycle, giving the women valuable, transferable, sewing, and manufacturing skills and helping them […]
6 Feb 24
Bookshop makes children’s books donation
A big thank you to The Blue House Bookshop for the donation of children’s book. These will be available for families using the foodbank in the coming weeks and distributed via our centres.