News
19 Jun 19
Our new Twitter feed is @FoodbankCobham!
@FoodbankCobham is our new Twitter feed. On our old one @CobhamFoodbank we received this prompt, and put in the date when we opened, in 2013 – and Twitter blocked us ‘because you are under 13 years old’. Duh!
7 Jun 19
Thank you to whoever donated so generously to our Waitrose collection point this week!
Thank you to whoever donated so generously to our Waitrose collection point this week. You gave the Wednesday van team a very pleasant surprise and your donations have made a real difference!!
12 May 19
Cobham Area Foodbank Manager’s Report, May 2019
The Cobham Area Foodbank has had another challenging year. I am pleased to report that thanks to the support it receives financially from the churches, from various grants and generous individuals, the kindness of the local community with their donations of food, plus the continued dedication of our volunteers, we have faithfully met all of […]
17 Apr 19
Distribution Centre open Good Friday, 19th April
We are open as usual on Good Friday from midday to 1:30pm. Remember to get a voucher in good time! 🙂
14 Feb 19
News from Cobham Area Foodbank, February 2019
‘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!
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.
16 Jul 18
Cobham Area Foodbank provides food not just for three days, but for a week. Here is more information about what goes into our food parcels.
What kind of food goes into a foodbank parcel? As a member of The Trussell Trust foodbank network, we use a standard packing list for each emergency food parcel that goes to someone referred to us. The list varies depending on how many people live in the household, but they generally contain things like pasta […]
15 Dec 17
A letter to a nice lady whose daughter has offered to do a ‘Reverse Advent’ collection for our food bank
Many thanks to you and your daughter. Do have a look at our website, cobhamarea.foodbank.org.uk, which tells you a lot about how we operate. We collect the food, which people kindly donate, from our green bins, placed in all the churches in Cobham, Oxshott, Stoke D’Abernon and the Horsleys, and from bins in Waitrose and […]
31 May 17
A New Record!
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 […]