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24 Oct 24

Reverse Advent

We are now collecting for our Christmas Appeal. Please help us to collect these items to give to our communities that are most in need. We are so grateful to all who donate and could not do what we do without you all. Please ask your families, friends, work colleagues to start a collection or […]

22 Oct 24

It’s beginning to look a little like Christmas

Can you help us provide Advent Calendars, Selection Boxes and festive chocolate to our clients. We want to brighten up our client’s Christmas with some yummy treats. If you can help us please drop them into one of our collection points at all the local supermarkets or bring them to our warehouse at 2 – […]

6 Aug 24

Harvest Appeal 2024

As we approach the summer holidays we start to think of our Harvest appeal. We get a lot of schools and Churches supporting us at this time but we still need more support as our donations are low. If you know a local group, sports group or club that would like to help, please tag […]

6 Aug 24

DP World Family Day

On Saturday 20th July,DP World held a funday for their employees with the entry fee being some tins of food for Thurrock Foodbank. They managed to collect a huge 254.8kg worth of food. What a great idea from DP World! supporting the local community whilst treating their employees and their families. We are so grateful […]

6 Aug 24

Morrisons Thank you

The results are in 😊. Our collections at Morrisons last weekend were a great success, at Morrisons Corringham we collected 142.8kg of food and £51.42 in our bucket and at Morrisons Grays we collected 238kg of food and £32.81 in our bucket. Thank you to our amazing volunteers Margaret, Mary, Janice, Ernie, Kathy, Carol, Sandra, […]

30 Jun 24

Morrisons Collections

Our @Morrisons food collection starts on Friday 5th July at Morrisons Corringham followed by Saturday 6th July at Morrisons Grays 🛒 Look out for our volunteers at both stores, where you’ll be able to donate food and other essential items to help people facing hunger and hardship. Thank you. 💚

1 Jun 24

FirstGive at the Hathaway Academy

Last week our volunteers Kathy, Patricia, Carol and Sandra went along to The Hathaway Academy for presentations for the First Give programme. Students from all the year 8 classes had chosen a local cause to research, plan a project and present their work and one cause was to receive £1,000. The students who presented on […]

18 Feb 24

February Newsletter

The first edition of our newly designed newsletter is now available. See the link below to read it, you can also find it under ‘Give Help’ section. https://thurrock.foodbank.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2024/02/February-2024-newsletter.pdf

18 Feb 24

Lent 2024

Can you help us turn Lent into Plenty by donating items on our list over the 6 weeks of Lent. All our usual donation points are open or food can be dropped into our warehouse at 2 – 4 Chase Road, Corringham SS17 7QH, open Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am – 3pm.

30 Jan 24

Greenpower Donation

What a way to start the New Year! We are so thankful for your very generous donation of £5,000. This money will go a long way in helping our warehouse keep restocked with items we are low of to ensure our clients receive a complete food parcel. Thank you Tilbury Green Power Plant 💚

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