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2nd Signal Regiment make donation to York Foodbank

The 2nd Signal Regiment at Imphal Barracks has made a 175kg donation to York foodbank this Christmas. The gym Staff coordinated a York Garrison wide foodbank collection and held a fancy dress indoor obstacle course to raise awareness for our foodbank charity. Corporal Golden brought in the donations on 12th December, in good time to […]

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Warehouse and office Christmas 2024 closing and Jan 2025 reopening times

The warehouse at Clifton Moor will close for donations at 1PM ON THURSDAY 19TH DECEMBER and reopen at 9AM ON THURSDAY 2ND JANUARY A big thank you to everyone who has donated over the last few weeks in the run up to Christmas. We wish you all a happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

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A successful annual Tesco food drive 2024!

At the end of November/beginning of December we had the Tesco food drive in association with Trussell nationally. At the Askham Bar Tesco Extra, we spent three days in store preparing bags for customers to purchase and donate, collecting donations, providing customers with info on the foodbank including our “most needed” shopping lists, and generally […]

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York Minster charity Christmas trees on view

Visitors to York Minster (Chapter of York) this season will see a display of charity Christmas trees. One of these is from us here at York Foodbank and the decorations show much needed food items and reflect how we value our volunteers. The decorations were put together by our warehouse coordinator Maxine with some volunteers […]

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Local author makes another Christmas donation to foodbank

At Christmas, we receive food donations which include Christmas-related foods as well as the normal “most needed” non-perishable items that we give to clients, and on occasion we also benefit from some who donate Christmas gifts. These are distributed where possible via the six foodbank sessions across the city to clients who in are collecting […]

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Enterprise makes massive financial donation to foodbank

Today we received an amazing financial donation from Enterprise Mobility. From Enterprise in York, manager Daniel Briggs and HR manager Amanda Costello came by with a cheque for £5000! This is an incredible donation which will go straight towards food supplies and support for our clients in need of emergency food. A massive thanks to […]

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e.surv Chartered Surveyors makes donation to foodbank

Last week e.surv Chartered Surveyors dropped off a donation at our Cornerstone centre that they had collected. Through Matt Cavanagh the company brought in 64kg of donations. Pictured, the donations made that Matt brought along, and our warehouse coordinator and a volunteer, Maxine and Anthony, prior to bringing it in to the York Foodbank warehouse. […]

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Christmas donations 2024

As usual we really value donations from individuals and organisations at Christmas time. In addition to the emergency food parcels that are generated when a client is referred, the centres can also add Christmas-related food items into the parcels. This gives our clients real benefits in receiving items that perhaps, when struggling and needing emergency […]

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Fantastic support from boxxe team and execs

Over the last two years we here at York Foodbank have received from almost 150 hours of volunteering time from the team at boxxe. In the last week, some of the exec team there have also joined us and done shifts in the warehouse. Each boxxe team member gets 11.5 days a year to volunteer and […]

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Howl selling seasonal soups and donating to Foodbank

During October, Howl – a café wine bar in the centre of York – will be running a promotion (starting Monday 7th) of take-away cups of fresh, seasonal soups! Each soup will be £2 in total, with 50p of that going to us here at York Foodbank. A big thanks to Sasha Miles, one of […]

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