News
26 Mar 18
Store Collection in Morrisons, Grays
We will be holding a manned store collection in Morrisons, Grays on Saturday 28 April, from 9:00 – 17:00. If you can spare a couple of hours between these times please let us know We are looking for volunteers to hand out flyers, take food donations from customers and pack those donations into crates. If […]
27 Feb 18
Warehouse closure
Due to the bad weather the warehouse will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday 28 February), sorry for any inconvenience. We will hopefully be open on Monday as normal. Thank you
20 Feb 18
Store Collection in Asda, Tilbury
If you are in Asda, Tilbury on Saturday (24 February) then come and find us in the foyer we will be taking donations from shoppers from 09:00 – 17:00. We are currently short of sponge puddings, long life milk and long life juice to name a few items. We have plenty of beans, meat soup […]
18 Dec 17
Christmas Opening and Emergency Access
Our centres will be closed on the following dates over Christmas/New Year. Tilbury (St Johns) – shut on Tuesday 26 December Stanford Le Hope (GPC) – shut on Wednesday 27 December Aveley (St Michaels) – shut on Saturday 23 December Chadwell St Mary (Emmanuel Church) – shut on Saturday 30 December All other sessions over […]
22 Nov 17
Tescos Store Collection 30/11, 1/12 and 2/12
So next week (30 November – 2 December) we will be joining in the nationwide Tescos store collection. All over the country Tescos stores will be supporting Trussell Trust Foodbank volunteers in their stores to collect donations of food from their customers. We are very lucky to be collecting in the Tesco Extra store in […]
16 Oct 17
Tescos Store Collection – volunteers wanted
We will be holding a three day collection in Tescos Lakeside on Thursday 30th November, Friday 1 December and Saturday 2 December. We would like to make this the best collection ever and collect in excess of a tonne of food. This may seem like a rather high target but we generally send out approx […]
30 Aug 17
Future Events
We are looking at some exciting events over the next few months where we will either be getting out and about to meet people, setting up more pop up collection points or hosting events to raise money for us. So the current list of events is as follows: 2 September – Orsett Show, find us […]
23 Aug 17
National Citizenship Service
The National Citizenship Service (NCS) runs over the summer holidays for 15 – 17 year olds to encourage them to take part in exhilarating challenges, make their mark in the world and build on skills for work and life. As part of the course they take part in a social action project where they support […]
19 Jul 17
Recent Store Collections
It has been a busy couple of weeks for us here at the Foodbank, we have had two store collections, one in Sainsbury’s Chafford Hundred and one in Tescos Lakeside. Thank you to all our enthusiastic volunteers in store who chatted to the store customers and told them about foodbank and the […]