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St Ives Waitrose Collection - November 2023

7 Mar 21

THANK YOU

As we go into 2022 we are fully open, supporting people in need across Huntingdonshire. Thank you for the help we have had in the past 2 years across the Covid pandemic  it has been amazing. And looking forward to new ideas across 2022 to help, engage and support people,

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7 Mar 21

COVID-19 – 1 YEAR ON

The Foodbank has been working under Covid-19 restrictions for a year. Small, separate teams of volunteers have worked together to make parcels, accept donations and give out parcels, maintaining social distancing. Others have delivered parcels to (thankfully) a small number of people who have been shielding, isolating or unwell. The FoodBank will continue to be […]

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30 Nov 20

Christmas and New Year open/closed dates

Easter 2022  – CLOSED 18th April. In emergency contact the CAB or your housing association. Else email in to [email protected] in EMERGENCY only as will only be checked occasionally.

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17 Mar 20

Covid-19 Information – update

FoodBank during Covid-19 with effect from 23 03 2020 The FoodBank will continue to operate from at Godmanchester Baptist Church using significant social distancing. The FoodBank will be open from 10 am to 2 pm on Monday and Thursday ONLY for parcel distribution. Parcels will not be available at other times YOU WILL STILL NEED A […]

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3 Nov 19

Getting the Harvest In!!

Schools, churches, businesses and individuals have contributed over 3.3 tonnes (more than 3300 kg) of food for our Combined Harvest Appeal 2019. This weight of food is equivalent to about 800 individual meals for local people in crisis. Thank you!

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11 Nov 18

Christmas Hampers 2018

Can you help make up the hampers? We would like to invite YOU to join us this year and give some time as a volunteer to help with this important event. You may have volunteered before or you may be new to the idea but it is people like you who make this project happen and […]

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17 Sep 18

Godmanchester FoodBank School Summer Scheme

Working with local schools we helped 45 families through the school summer holiday. The volunteer team worked really hard to keep the parcels flowing. “Thank you – it was lovely knowing that our families were being taken care of.  I don’t think people realise that some of our families rely on school dinners as part […]

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2 Mar 17

Volunteers are heroes!!

When I talk to schools, WI, anywhere, the people who are my heroes are the volunteers who each week chat with people in need of help from the foodbank. They listen, they make cups of tea, they sort hampers, they offer tissues sometimes – they make the foodbank happen. They get involved…. My  2 other […]

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9 Dec 16

Christmas Hampers are coming….

  this is the Tesco sort from last weeks collection, nearly 2000kg of food, Thank you, to all who donated and helped sort it ready for hamper building  in 10 days time…. An amaz-z-z-zing team !

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11 Nov 16

A little bit of help from friends…..

I had the privilege yesterday of meeting a young guy living in a B and B, with no cooker, no permanent heating, not even a free washing machine.We talked about his past, his drinking, and how things are now. I asked about Christmas, while racking my brains to try to have a plan on how […]

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