News
4 Dec 17
Fabulous 2017 Christmas Tesco Collection…
We had a fantastic response to our recent collection at Tesco in Scunthorpe. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who manned the doors and of course the wonderful people of Scunthorpe and surrounding areas who gave so generously. We raised a whopping 1336 kilo’s of food…
27 Nov 17
Westcliff Foodbank Goes From Strength to Strength..
We had to close our very successful Westcliff centre on Dorchester road in Scunthorpe back in the Spring as the pastor who organised it all for us moved on to pastures new. The Church Army has now taken over the church building and have taken Foodbank very much on board. Since re-opening on 13th October […]
24 Nov 17
Foodbank Warehouse Couple recognised as Community Champions
Our recently retired warehouse manager Geoff Leeman and his amazing wife Val were crowned Community Champions at the North Lincs Council Awards. We are as proud as punch! Geoff and Val managed our warehouse for over 7 years, serving for in excess of 3000 hours and moving over 200 tonnes of food! What a couple! […]
16 Nov 17
Local Schools Give Generously…
Scunthorpe foodbank has had a fantastic response this year from local schools contributing their harvest festival. Volunteers were not only able to collect a mountain of food, we were also able to go in to many of the assemblies and spread the word about poverty in our local area and how much all those who have […]
5 Sep 17
Great North Run In Aid Of Christmas Scunthorpe Foodbank..
Phil Johnson a passionate advocate for Scunthorpe Foodbank is doing the Great North Run again this year with proceeds to go towards helping local families in need at Christmas. Last year thanks to Phil and other kind donations, we were able to help 50 families have a Christmas they could have otherwise only dreamed about. […]
15 Aug 17
Great Result at Asda
We are so grateful to all who gave at our recent supermarket collection at Asda. The food weighed in totalled in excess of 600 kg! Thank you!
8 Jul 17
New Distribution Centre to Open in Scunthorpe…
We’re very excited to announce that Scunthorpe is to have a new Foodbank distribution centre. It will be held every Wednesday at the Greeson Hall Community Centre Digby St, Scunthorpe DN15 7LU between 1-2.30pm commencing 12/7/17..
3 Apr 17
New Virgin Giving Page…
We’ve had a number of requests from people asking how they can help us out at Scunthorpe foodbank, so here’s our new Virgin Money Giving page. Thank you to all those who have donated, it’s greatly appreciated…
20 Mar 17
London Marathon
We are excited to announce that our MP Nic Dakin is running the London Marathon in a month’s time and has chosen our foodbank as one of the charities he is running for. You can sponsor Nic via his Virgin Money Giving page http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/nicdakinmp
20 Mar 17
Closure of Westcliff Distribution Centre
It is with regret that we confirm the closure of our Westcliff Distribution Centre. We really appreciate the work done by Deborah-lynn Wilkinson and her team over that past year, and are sad that this has come to an end. We are wishing DL our very best wishes and prayers as she moves to another […]