News
5 Jan 21
Our most needed items
These are our currently most needed items. To find out where your nearest collection point is click here.
4 Jan 21
We will reopen on the 4th January 2021
Our normal service will resume on Monday 4th January.
16 Dec 20
Christmas and New Year 2020/2021 opening times
Please check our closing and opening times over the Christmas and New Year period: Click here to download.
10 Dec 20
December 2020 Newsletter
We have lots of pre-Christmas news to share with you this month. This includes an update on the Sainsbury’s Help Brighten a Million Christmases campaign, our deadline for Christmas parcel donations, items we urgently need and an update on our Christmas star campaign. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank EVERYONE who […]
9 Dec 20
The Guardian Article 9th December 2020
Destitution is rising fast due to Covid and flaws in the benefit system. Read today’s The Guardian ANALYSIS article about how Britain’s safety nets are being overwhelmed by rapid growth in extreme poverty. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
6 Dec 20
Chatsworth Baptist Church stall at Feast Sunday 6th Dec in support of Foodbank
If you’re going to Feast this Sunday, pop along to the Chatsworth Baptist Church stall which will be supporting us. Location tbc.
27 Nov 20
Sainsbury’s Help Brighten a Million Christmases campaign for foodbank 1st-14th December
From the 1st – 14th December, Sainsbury’s Upper Norwood, 66 Westow St, Upper Norwood, London SE19 3RW will be launching their Help Brighten a Million Christmases campaign so you can donate items for our Christmas parcels in their box, as you leave the store. The items we are most in need of right now are: […]
25 Nov 20
Photo Portrait of Rebekah Gibson nominated for a National Portrait Gallery prize
This beautiful photo portrait of Waterloo Foodbank Manager, Rebekah Gibson @waterloofb was taken by Charlie Clift @charlieclift at the South London Warehouse in the summer, when he volunteered for us. It has now been nominated for a Taylor Wessing Photography Prize and can be viewed along with the other entrants at the virtual exhibition on […]
24 Nov 20
Christmas Star Campaign
Hopefully you will have spotted our various requests to make Christmas stars for us across social media in the last few weeks, as well as in our November newsletter at the beginning of the month. They’re beginning to arrive and we have some great designs including the ones pictured here. We still need more so […]
18 Nov 20
Tesco Christmas Collection 19th – 21st November
If you happen to be shopping at Tesco Brixton on Acre Lane or Tesco Extra at Streatham Common between the 19th and 21st November, please consider purchasing an extra item or two and putting them in the branded donations trolleys as you leave the store. We are expecting to deliver over 500 Christmas parcels this […]