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18 Sep 23

Harvest Food Donation Appeal

Every year, around the traditional harvest festival time, we launch our harvest appeal. This year we have a number of food and basic toiletry items that we are in urgent need of. Some of our shelves are empty.   Slough Foodbank depends on donations of long-life food. Last year we gave out over 97 tonnes […]

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7 Sep 23

AUGUST STATS 43% INCREASE ON AUGUST LAST YEAR

FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 31 AUGUST 2023, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2022 Total number of food parcels: 878, an increase of 43% Number of adults: 599, an increase of 49% Number of children: 279, an increase of 30% Yet another increase – July […]

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4 Aug 23

JULY STATS 48% INCREASE ON JULY LAST YEAR

FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 31 JULY 2023, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2022 Total number of food parcels: 848, an increase of 48% Number of adults: 541, an increase of 45% Number of children: 307, an increase of 54% Sad to see such a […]

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5 Jul 23

Food poverty crisis at its highest as Slough Foodbank publishes statistics for first 6 months of 2023

Food poverty crisis at its highest as Slough Foodbank publishes statistics showing that more emergency food parcels were given out during the first 6 months of 2023 than ever before, with a 31% increase in the number of food parcels distributed versus same period in 2022.   6-month stats released – 01 January 2023 to […]

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5 Jul 23

June Stats 26% increase on June last year

FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 30 JUNE 2023, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2022 Total number of food parcels: 937, an increase of 26% Number of adults: 598, an increase of 33% Number of children: 339, an increase of 16% These figures have increased since […]

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29 Jun 23

Slough Foodbank receives thank you in parliament

We were pleased to see that ‘in-work poverty’ was the subject of a parliamentary debate yesterday led by Tan Dhesi, the MP for Slough. Many valuable points about poverty in the UK were raised by Tan and colleagues across political parties in this hour long debate and we hope positive change comes from these issues being heard […]

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28 Jun 23

Trussell Trust publishes ‘Hunger in the UK’ report

The ‘Hunger in the UK’ report was published today, delivered in partnership with the research agency Ipsos and Trussell Trust food banks, this research comes at a time when Slough Foodbank – along with other UK foodbanks, is seeing record levels of need. The research found: Food bank use is just the tip of a […]

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23 Jun 23

Over 1.1 tonnes from Tesco in-store collection

We want to say a huge thank you to the Community Champions at Tesco Slough and Tesco Taplow and Slough Foodbank Volunteers, for enabling us to do an in-store collection on Friday 16th June. Over 1.1 tonnes of food and basic toiletries were collected through the generosity of Tesco customers. Thank you to the Mayor, […]

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15 Jun 23

Food Collection at Tesco Taplow and Tesco Extra Slough 16th June

Tomorrow, Friday 16th June, we’ll be collecting food donations at Tesco Taplow and Tesco Extra Slough. If you are shopping in store do please support us and donate an item from our shopping list. Every item makes a huge difference to people facing food poverty crisis. Our most needed items are: Tinned Fruit Tinned Fish […]

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5 Jun 23

May stats: decrease on previous year

FIGURES FOR THE NUMBER OF FOOD PARCELS PROVIDED BY SLOUGH FOODBANK DURING 1 – 31 MAY 2023, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 2022 Total number of food parcels: 742 down 13% Number of adults: 445 down 13% Number of children: 297 down 12% These figures are the first decrease we’ve seen on 2022 figures […]

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