News | Cobham Area

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!

Green Mercedes Sprinter Cobham Area Foodbank 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 […]

14 Feb 17

Cobham Area Foodbank – Manager’s Report, February 2017

The Foodbank is an independent charity, registered in England and Wales no 1154217, founded in 2013 by Churches Together in Cobham, Oxshott, Stoke D’Abernon and Surrounding Areas. The Foodbank subscribes to the national network of over 400 food banks co-ordinated and advised by the Trussell Trust, a Christian charity in Salisbury. Trussell has devised, […]

13 Nov 16

Foodbanks call for direct DWP hotline

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 […]

15 Aug 16

National Foodbank Update: Issue 165 – 15 April 2016

1,109,309. That’s the amount of three-day emergency food supplies our network of 424 foodbanks gave out to people in crisis during 2015/16, with 415,866 of those having gone to children. It’s a 2% increase on the figures released this time last year, when we first crossed the one million mark. And it’s happened again. One […]

23 Dec 15

6 Unexpected Things Foodbanks Need

A visit to the food bank isn’t exactly a traditional Christmas activity, but one UK charity is asking for a little extra help this month, when demand is at its highest and families are choosing between eating and heating.

15 Dec 15

Report by the Foodbank Manager for the Period 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2015

This has been a challenging time for Cobham Area Foodbank. Hugh Bryant stood down as general manager at the end of 2014, and Daisy Bates took over until she in turn retired, at the end of August 2015. Hugh Bryant offered to resume duties as manager, and was duly re-elected by the trustees. At the […]

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