Donate food
Our foodbank relies on your support and food donations.
BankTheFood
We use BankTheFood to keep you updated on the items we’re running low on.
Food donations help us provide balanced and nutritious three-day food supplies to those in need. In 2024, we provided 58,743 meals to local people in need.
Your food donations are crucial to helping us feed those who are referred to us.
Items we need urgently
We are very much in need of any and all items at the moment, so all donations are welcome. These items are what we most urgently need at present.
As of 24/11/2025
- Advent Calendars
- Bags for life
- Biscuits
- Cat food
- Christmas chocolates/biscuits
- Coffee
- Cooking sauce in jars
- Deodorant
- Dog food
- Long-life milk
- Men's deodorant
- Razors for shaving
- Shampoo
- Shaving foam/gel
- Shower gel
- Snacks (e.g. crisps, cereal bars, etc)
- Squash
- Tinned carrots
- Tinned fish
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned meat
- Tinned peas
- Tinned rice pudding
- Tinned sweetcorn
- Tinned tomatoes
- Trifle kits
- Washing powder
- Washing up liquid
- Women's deodorant
Items we don’t need
This list is fairly empty at the moment as there are very few items that we don’t need! All donations are very welcome.
As of 24/11/2025
- Bottled water (still)
- Christmas puddings
- Incontinence products
- Nappies
- Noodles
- Salad cream
- Sanitary towels
- Sugar
- Tampons
- Tomato sauce
- Toothbrushes
Ways to donate
See where you can drop off food donations