Closed until 6 January 2022 | Borehamwood Foodbank

6 Nov 22

#strongertogether – a busy October

The Foodbank wouldn’t survive without the support of the local community and October has been a busy one! We attended the Borehamwood Community Wellbeing Fair. It was great to talk about what we do and network with other community groups. We’ve also been busy talking at school assemblies and collecting beautiful harvest donations from many […]

7 Oct 22

Turkey Prize Draw – back for a 5th year!

The Borehamwood Turkey Prize Draw is back for its 5th year! For more information about the draw or to buy your £5 ticket (or as many tickets as you like!) simply click here, and you’ll have a chance to win a turkey worth £70-80! Don’t want a turkey? No problem, you can still contribute […]

29 Sep 22

Nando’s is our latest corporate partner

We’ve partnered with Nando’s Borehamwood, through Fareshare, to give any of its leftover food out at our Thursday sessions, which run 10am-12:30pm at St Teresa’s Church. We rely on donations from generous local partners and business (as well as from individuals!) to be able to support people in need in our local community. If […]

22 Sep 22

HARVEST COLLECTION

Are you a school, business or community organisation looking to help people in need this Autumn? Please consider starting a harvest collection to encourage food donations for Borehamwood Foodbank. Last year we supported over 10,000 people in crisis with emergency food parcels, and we expect this to rise as the cost of living crisis […]

12 Sep 22

Thank you Sobell Rhodes

A huge THANK YOU to our corporate partners, Sobell Rhodes, who supported our Summer Family Foodbank sessions. We had four Sobell Rhodes, volunteers attend every one of our six additional lunch sessions over the school holidays. They also bought lots of food and a huge amount of stationery for the children returning to school! […]

10 Sep 22

Contact your MP

Despite the cost of living support package provided by the government, 40% of people on Universal Credit had to skip meals to survive the summer, and research from The Trussell Trust shows that 70% of people who received their first cost of living support payment have already had to spend it, and 2/3 of […]

1 Sep 22

Summer Family Foodbank Fun

We’ve had an amazing series of foodbank sessions for families over the past six weeks. Our success in numbers: Six additional sessions over six weeks – each with a different theme from cooking and seaside fun, culminating in a Harry Potter themed session last week An average of 23-26 families per session. 57 […]

19 Jul 22

School Summer Lunch sessions

The first of our Summer School Lunch sessions start tomorrow from 11am – 1pm at St Teresa’s Church in Borehamwood. They will run every Wednesday through to 24 August. As well as free lunch bags for anyone of school age, there will be lots of free activities. This year, we’ll also be offering school […]

18 Jul 22

Visit the justice bus on 21 July!

The justice bus – a mobile law clinic offering free legal advice – will visit Borehamwood Foodbank on Thursday 21 July, 10am – 12.30pm. The free advice for members of the public cover a range of legal issues including family, employment, housing and consumer. All advice is provided by solicitors, or trained law students working […]

30 Jun 22

Tesco Summer Food Collection

The Tesco Summer Food Collection starts today, 30 June, 2022. Over the next three days, there will volunteers kindly giving up their time to collect food donations at Tesco Borehamwood. As the cost of living crisis intensifies, local people need our help more than ever, so please pop along and donate whatever you can. Every […]

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