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Nuneaton Foodbank – latest update 16th November 2020

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16th November 2020

Nuneaton Foodbank Update and thanks

Dear Foodbank Supporters, Donors and Volunteers,

With your generous ongoing help and support, since our last update on 26th September, we have distributed food to 338 people, (which has included 141 children).

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS

Thank you to all our volunteers, both those running the two sessions each week at each of our four centres, and to those working at the warehouse.

LATEST DATA available as at 13th November

Number of people fed since last update on 26/10/20  Total Numbers fed from 1st April 2020  Numbers fed since ‘lockdown’    on  23rd March Total Numbers fed since launch in 2013 Food donated since last update Food distributed since last update

 

 Difference in amount collected        

338

which

included

141 children

2365

which

included

830 children

2509

which

included

893 children

32875

which

included

12174 children

2978.6kgs

(6552.9lbs:

58.50cwt:

2.92 tons

3091.5kgs

(6801.3lbs:

60.72cwt:

3.03 tons)

 

0.11 of a ton more distributed than donated

 

 

CAN YOU HELP?

Up till now we have managed deliveries of large numbers of crates of food to our four centres with the very generous help and support of volunteers, who have kindly used their large cars or SUV’s, and more recently smaller cars. We really need to have the use of a small van, as we are finding it increasingly difficult to fit crates into smaller cars, and volunteers are having to make multiple journeys, to safely transport food. The cost of hiring a van is prohibitive.
It may be that you have contacts or connections with a company, or a garage, that might consider sponsoring a small van for Nuneaton Foodbank.

If you are able to help us with this, please could you email us on [email protected]

 

FOOD DONATIONS

Due to the current restrictions, many of our regular donation points in churches, chapels and organisations are no longer able to operate, and we are dependent on donations at supermarkets such as ASDA, Sainsburys, and The Coop. The supermarkets have gently requested that only food purchased at their stores is donated in their collection points. There is a collection point at Yorkshire Bank, and also at Dunelm Mill in Regent Street, but during this second period of lockdown, some of the other collection points unfortunately are unavailable.

We are very grateful to individual donors who are bringing donations to the Foodbank warehouse, where they can leave the donations outside the warehouse, and alert the warehouse team by knocking on the door, and then moving back two metres, so that safe distancing is ensured.

 

THANK YOU

Our sincere thanks to members of the public who have held local food collections:- Aimee Oakley and the Weddington Community; Billie and friends; Residents in Lionel Close; Sarah and Roger Shipp and residents in Charnwood Drive; Rebecca Towers and residents in Shanklin Drive, and to ‘Kaurssos’

We would like to say thank you to a number of organisations and churches for their recent financial donations. A very big ‘Thank You’ to:- Holy Trinity Church Attleborough; All Saints Church Chilvers Coton; Astley PCC; Holy Trinity Church and St Peters Church Galley Common; Nuneaton Methodist Church have made a further donation; Holy Trinity Church Hartshill PCC and to The 29th May 1961 Charity.
We would also like to thank Manjit and Suk Kalm from the S&K NISA Supermarket in Arbury Road, for nominating
Nuneaton Foodbank for another donation from the NISA Charitable Foundation – MADL (Making a Difference Locally) We have also had a considerable number of personal donations for which we are extremely grateful.

At the moment we are in need of some very specific food items and toiletries, and financial donations such as these,
are enabling us to purchase these types of items.

 

A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATES

We would like to thank everyone who donates to the foodbank in whatever way – your help and your support are greatly appreciated

Our key message still is please, please, could you continue to donate items from the ‘Shopping list’ shown below,
in the ways that you are doing – both at local supermarkets, through church and organisational collections, and through individual donations.

 

SHOPPING LIST

We know that people like to know what we are particularly in need of when they are thinking of donating, and at the moment would be really grateful for:–  

   

 

 

CHRISTMAS ITEMS

We have started to collect Christmas items. This may seem very early, but in order to get our Christmas parcels for
families ready in time to get out in the period running up to Christmas, we need items much earlier than usual.
This is because we can only have limited numbers of volunteers in the warehouse for ‘safe distancing’ reasons. In order to ensure we can get the Christmas food parcels for families ready, and also Christmas items out to the four centres for inclusion in the bags we prepare for day to day distribution, we MUST start much earlier this year.
Although many people in the past have kindly donated in the week or two before Christmas, this will unfortunately be too late for us to manage due to current safety restrictions, so we need items in by the 4th December please.
At the moment we need: –

 

HOW CAN YOU CONTINUE TO HELP?

Many people continue to contact us to ask if they can make financial donations, as they are unable to get out to shop.
We are pleased to let you know that we are able to receive donations through the ‘Donate’ button on our website.
On our website www.nuneaton.foodbank.org.uk we have on the GIVE HELP section, under the DONATE MONEY
section – ONE OFF GIFTS – a ‘button’ which allows you to donate directly to Nuneaton Foodbank.

We are tremendously grateful for the very encouraging response from many members of the local community and
organisations via this link on our Nuneaton Foodbank website.

 

GIFT AID REALLY HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE

We would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank the growing number of people who are donating financially to the Foodbank on a regular basis. Many donors are using the HMRC scheme called ‘Gift Aid’ to increase their donations by 25p for every £1 they donate.

Copies of the Gift Aid form can be found on the Nuneaton Foodbank website.

If you are aware of friends or relatives that might wish to support the work of the foodbank in helping families in need in the local Nuneaton community, and who want to know where they can make food donations, the following places kindly have collection points:-

ASDA; SAINSBURYS; ATTLEBOROUGH CO-OP; BULKINGTON CO-OP; GALLEY COMMON CO-OP;
(Please only donate items purchased from the stores)
YORKSHIRE BANK; DUNELM MILL.

Again, many thanks to you all for your ongoing generous support.

Kind regards,

David

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