News
15 Feb 21
MONTHLY STATS: JAN 2021, 40% INCREASE IN NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS
FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 31 JANUARY 2021, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2020. Total number of food parcels: 652, a 40% increase Number of adults: 426, a 39% increase Number of children: 226, a 41% increase
7 Feb 21
A huge thank you to our donors over the past months
We would like to thank everyone who has made donations over the past few months either at our warehouse or at supermarket collection points. We hope you will understand that we are unable to send out individual thank you letters at the moment. We are no longer gathering information on donors as we are not […]
2 Feb 21
Reminder: Our warehouse is CLOSED
We are in Tier 4 and warehouse deliveries are NOT essential. Please don’t break the rules by coming out to donate to Slough Foodbank. Rest assured we have plentiful supplies thanks to very generous pre-Christmas donations. Our warehouse will be closed to protect our volunteers. We cannot risk anyone in the warehouse team bubble being […]
12 Jan 21
Slough Foodbank releases statistics for the full year 2020 – our 10th year of serving the Slough community.
Slough Foodbank releases statistics for the full year 2020 – the 10th year of serving the Slough community. Slough Foodbank statistics for 2020 show a shocking increase in the number of people needing help, with 37% more food parcels distributed this year versus last year. Statistics for the full year 2020, versus 2019 Total […]
7 Jan 21
MONTHLY STATS: Dec 2020, 2.6% INCREASE IN NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS
FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 31 DECEMBER 2020, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2019. Total number of food parcels: 571, a 2.6% increase Number of adults: 379, a 11% increase Number of children: 192, a 11% decrease
3 Jan 21
Foodbanks open but Warehouse Closed
Slough is in Tier 4 so please don’t break the rules by coming out to donate to Slough Foodbank. Rest assured we have plentiful supplies thanks to very generous pre-Christmas donations. Our warehouse will be closed for the whole of January to protect our volunteers working to sort the stock from December. We cannot risk […]
22 Dec 20
Foodbank Clients Christmas Bazaar
Huge preparations yesterday getting ready for our free Christmas bazaar today for all clients with invitations. A covid-compliant, socially distanced opportunity for our clients who received emergency food parcels during December to have a food parcel for Christmas. We’re expecting to give a Christmas parcel to around 100 couples/singles and 48 families. The Christmas bazaar […]
21 Dec 20
Tier 4 – Foodbank Open but Warehouse deliveries NOT essential
As an essential service supplying food, Slough Foodbank is open as usual for those with referrals to collect their food. Our volunteers are permitted to travel to do their roles. Deliveries to our warehouses are NOT essential so please do not break the advice to bring them now. Our warehouse is closed to deliveries. Thank […]
19 Dec 20
Happy Christmas from us all at Slough Foodbank
A huge thank you to all of our supporters and volunteers. This month is our 10 year anniversary https://slough.foodbank.org.uk/2020/12/11/proudly-serving-slough-for-10-years/ . We are proud to have served Slough over these years and your support has been invaluable, none more so than this year. I am so proud of how we have continued to operate – we have provided […]
18 Dec 20
Christmas opening hours
During the Christmas period we will be operating our normal opening hours (see our locations and opening times) with the exception of the following: WE ARE CLOSED ON: Christmas Day – 25th December Boxing Day – 26th December Bank Holiday Monday – 28th December New Year’s Day – 1st January