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19 Mar 19
Music festival ready to drum up support for city’s foodbank
Tackling hunger will take centre stage at this year’s Worcester Music Festival which is throwing its support behind the city’s foodbank. Festival organisers have chosen Worcester Foodbank to benefit from the donations that it hopes to raise during more than 250 music performances and workshops, taking place across the city from 13 to 15 […]
14 Mar 19
Foodbank toasts beer festival cash boost
Worcester Foodbank is raising a glass to beer and cider lovers who have helped to boost its funds by nearly £670. The donations flowed in while thousands of drinkers enjoyed last summer’s Worcester Beer, Cider and Perry Festival, with food bank one of three chosen charities to benefit from the event. Rick Allen (pictured left) presented […]
30 Dec 18
Extraordinary generosity helps foodbank survive busiest ever Christmas
Worcester Foodbank has praised the extraordinary festive goodwill of local people which helped it to feed a record number of people in the run up to Christmas. Low income (403), benefit payment issues (304) and debt (141) were the main reasons more than 940 people were forced to rely on the city’s foodbank during December […]
5 Dec 18
Every little helps as shoppers give foodbank festive boost
Christmas came early for Worcester Foodbank as supermarket shoppers donated five and a half tonnes of supplies during a marathon three-day food collection. Volunteers encouraged customers at the Tesco stores in St Peter’s and Warndon to add a little extra to their basket or trolley to help foodbank feed the growing number of people forced […]
29 Nov 18
Secret santas urged to support Christmas Toy Appeal
Secret santas are being sought to help light up the faces of disadvantaged children this Christmas. Worcester Foodbank has launched its annual Christmas Toy Appeal in a bid to make sure hundreds of children don’t wake up to an empty stocking on Christmas Day. The charity is urging people to donate unwrapped new toys that […]
13 Nov 18
Foodbank reveals Christmas wish list to fight festive hunger
Worcester Foodbank has unwrapped its Christmas shopping list to help feed the growing number of people struggling to survive on a low income. The charity is hoping to ride a tide of festive goodwill and boost its stocks in the run-up to Christmas as mounting pressure from low incomes and sweeping changes to benefit payments […]
15 Oct 18
Benefit changes may force foodbank to find extra 30,000 meals
Worcester Foodbank may have to find an extra 30,000 meals as the full roll out of Universal Credit threatens to send demand for emergency food rocketing. Centre manager Grahame Lucas says the charity fears it could see up to a 50 per cent rise in the number of mouths it has to feed over the […]
4 Sep 18
Foodbank handed cash boost by city theatre group
Worcester Foodbank took centre stage when a theatre group enjoyed a short break from rehearsals to hand the charity a £540 cash boost. Members of Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society (WODS) presented foodbank manager Grahame Lucas with the money while rehearsing for their latest production of Spamalot. The funds were raised by the sale of […]
24 Apr 18
Demand for emergency food in Worcester reaches six-year high
A record number of people in Worcester are struggling to afford essentials such as food and toiletries due to low household income and benefit delays – but worse may be yet to come. That’s the warning from Worcester Foodbank which has today (Tuesday) revealed it handed out just over 6,100 three-day food parcels in 2017/18 […]
27 Feb 18
Waitrose shoppers donate more than 700 meals
Enough food to provide more than 700 meals was donated by generous shoppers at Waitrose during a collection by Worcester Foodbank on Saturday (24th February). Customers at the London Road store handed over more than 700 kg of food and other essentials, including washing powder, nappies and soap, as volunteers invited shoppers to donate items […]