News | Slough Foodbank

19 Mar 21

Nominated for High Sheriff Award

Slough Foodbank was nominated for a High Sheriff Award. The High Sheriff of the Royal County of Berkshire wrote to us and said: Throughout the last very difficult year Berkshire residents and organisations have stepped up to support their communities in incredible, life changing ways. These have included both the big groups who had fed […]

8 Mar 21

MONTHLY STATS: FEB 2021, 35% INCREASE IN NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS

FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 28 FEBRUARY 2021, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2020. Total number of food parcels: 579, a 25% increase Number of adults: 396, a 35% increase Number of children: 183, a 8% increase

24 Feb 21

Wanted: Strong carrier bags

We are completely out of carrier bags to pack our food parcels into. Can you donate any please? You can see our other current shopping list needs. If you are collecting a food parcel from a Distribution Centre, please bring your own bags!

17 Feb 21

Slough Foodbank to open 5th Distribution Centre, based in Iver, in March 2021

Slough Foodbank has been providing emergency food parcels to people in food poverty for the past 10 years and the area we support covers from Taplow in the West to Colnbrook in the East, and from Gerrards Cross, The Farnhams and Iver, to Datchet and parts of Windsor. We currently operate out of 4 Distribution […]

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 […]

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