News | York Foodbank

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.

1 Feb 24

Welcome to The Belfrey @ the de Grey Rooms – Saturday Mornings

We are pleased to announce that The Belfrey (The Belfrey (St Michael le Belfrey)) are going to take up hosting the York Foodbank Saturday morning, opening to welcome York Foodbank clients from this week (3/2/24). At this point we would like to express our gratitude to York City Church and their faithful team of volunteers […]

25 Jan 24

How to ensure that your foodbank gets what it really needs… use the BanktheFood app!

BanktheFood is a registered charity with an app to ensure food banks always have exactly what they need and not just baked beans. Its app is free to use (and they say it always will be!) BanktheFood is very simple to use. Once you have downloaded the app from the app store and followed the […]

23 Jan 24

Yorwaste collect Christmas Trees as people donate to York Foodbank

On the Saturday after Twelfth Night, the Yorwaste transport team worked with York Round Table to collect Christmas trees from York’s residents. 🎄 For £5, residents dropped off their trees and this helped to raise money for York Foodbank Thanks to everyone £2500 has been donated!

8 Jan 24

Local business makes regular donation

A big thanks should be given to Rothwell Group Ltd. (https://rothwell-group.co.uk/) who continue to make a regular donation to us here at York Foodbank. Businesses that do this often don’t get the thanks that they deserve as clients would not see this – it all happens in the background. We wanted to take this opportunity […]

2 Jan 24

York Foodbank in the press with S Harrison donation

York Foodbank was in the press recently with coverage of a donation by S Harrison York Press story

2 Jan 24

2024 re-opening after Christmas 23

Foodbank distribution openings restarted with Vineyard Church, Fawcett St on 2nd January. All sessions then resumed as normal from Thursday 4th January 2024 at St Joseph’s, Clifton. To see all opening times please click here

18 Dec 23

Christmas Opening Times 2023

Foodbank distribution openings will be running as normal up to and including 23rd December. We are open at Cornerstone in Tang Hall on Friday 29th December, Vineyard Church, Fawcett St on 2nd January. All sessions then resume as normal from Thursday 4th January 2024 at St Joseph’s, Clifton. Sat 23rd OPEN 10:00-12:00 Citadel, Gillygate Mon […]

12 Dec 23

A successful food drive at Tesco Askham Bar

York Foodbank had great support from the public at the Tesco food drive in association with The Trussell Trust. From 30/11 to 2/12 we had donations of almost 1300kg of food (1294kg to be exact) and over £1100 of cash donations. A massive thank you once again, to everyone who donated. Also a big […]

5 Dec 23

DEFRA acknowledge York Foodbank on International Volunteer’s Day

DEFRA has posted on social media about how its teams volunteer, specifically highlighting work done recently with a donation here at York foodbank last week. Defra post on LinkedIn

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