Our Food Bank and Community Food Shop are doing great work. We keep simple, but robust, data recording the number of people receiving food for a week as “total fed”. These numbers are rising.  Total numbers of people fed in 2024 were:

• Food Bank, 2548 

• Community Food Shop, 7080.

 

The Food Bank addresses emergency need while the Food Shop involves membership which is conditional on accepting support to address underlying issues (usually debt or insufficient income). To find out more about our work view a Powerpoint presentation-see below.

Running the Community Food Shop represents an important new strategy: that is to address key underlying causes of evident food poverty. This strategy comes with costs in terms of premises and purchase, and suitable storage, of fresh food. 

 

At present we have adequate financial reserves and are managing. But as, sadly, demand increases we worry that these reserves will not last long. Donations of food have reduced significantly. We depend heavily on longstanding donors who have set up regular donations of money and we greatly appreciate this reliable support.

 

I post a Newsletter on our website every two months informing donors, and interested readers, about our work and progress and keep reminding them how much we value their continuing support.

 

• If you are not already signed up to the newsletter, please follow the link to Newsletters on this website-see below 

• If you wish to donate, ideally through regular donations, please go to our Donate page and complete and return the donation form-see below

​Thanks again,

John Hull, Chair of Trustees (February 2025)