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28 Mar 26
Cobham Area Foodbank Donation Drive at Waitrose Cobham
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Cobham Area Foodbank would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported our recent collection drive at Waitrose Cobham on Wednesday 25th March. Thanks to the kindness and generosity of the local community, we collected an amazing 692kg of essential items – that’s 89 crates of food and supplies. This will help us […]
8 Jul 25
Summer update
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Cobham Area Foodbank – Summer update Dear Friends, Donors, Supporters, and Volunteers, As we enjoy the summer months, we’d like to take a moment to thank you for your unwavering support. Cobham Area Foodbank has now been running for almost 12 years, and we’re incredibly grateful to every single one of you who has helped us provide […]
16 Jul 24
Cobham Area Foodbank Highlights Latest Findings from The Trussell Trust’s Annual Report
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Emergency Food Parcel Distribution in the UK (1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024) Overview: The Trussell Trust recently released their annual statistics and advised that food banks within their network collectively distributed over 3.1 million emergency food parcels to those facing hunger and hardship in the last twelve months. Notably, more than 1.1 million […]
14 Feb 19
News from Cobham Area Foodbank, February 2019
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‘How is the Foodbank doing?’ The answer which we would like to give is that food poverty has disappeared and no-one needs us any more. Unfortunately the reverse is true. The inadequacy of the minimum wage, zero-hours employment and the government’s cruel Universal Credit, have increased demand in our area from an average of just […]
9 Feb 19
Look out for our new van!
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Keep your eyes peeled for our new Mercedes Sprinter which started work yesterday! We’d like to thank R.S. Williams, Elmbridge Borough Council, Waitrose, Downs Solicitors and Rossetts Commercials for their generous support.
31 May 17
A New Record!
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For your information, the amount of food donated at the Waitrose Collection on Saturday 20th May was a record……….. 813.60 kg!! This is double the quantity we collected at the last Waitrose event in December 2016 and is slightly higher than the amount collected at the first Foodbank collection at Waitrose in April 2014. Congratulations […]
13 Nov 16
Foodbanks call for direct DWP hotline
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Foodbank call for direct DWP hotline, as new figures show half a million emergency food parcels distributed by Trussell Trust foodbanks in six month More than 500,000 three day emergency food parcels distributed to people in crisis in first half of the year – over 188,500 to children Issues with benefits account for 44 […]