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Great Grandad Derek’s epic cycling fundraiser!

Great grandfather Derek Farndell is taking to his bike to take on the Cheshire canal way to raise money for Stockport Foodbank. Derek, who is in his 70s, is an epic fundraiser and has raised thousands over the years for lots of different charities. He’s set a fundraising target of £500 which will help us […]

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Celebrating our volunteers during Volunteers’ Week

It’s Volunteers’ Week from 3-9 June and that gives us a great opportunity to thank all of our wonderful volunteers. We have nearly 200 volunteers who give up their time to ensure we can run our service by volunteering at our centres, our warehouse or volunteering to collect donations. We could not run our service […]

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Novanta runners get ready for the Manchester 10k

Stockport based Laser Quantum, A Novanta Company has been a brilliant supporter of Stockport Foodbank – staff members have taken part in loads of volunteering days at our warehouse and they have donated lots of food and finance in the last couple of years. This weekend nearly 20 staff members have set themselves a big […]

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Spring newsletter

Our latest newsletter is now available for you to read. We update you on our activities over the recent months including the addition of Citizen’s Advice at our centres, we present our new van that was funded by the generosity of our donors, we shine a spotlight on one of our volunteers and our corporate […]

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Easter opening hours

Please note our centres, offices and warehouse will be closed on Good Friday (29 March) and Easter Monday (1st April).

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Urgently needed items

We regularly update our list of urgently needed items but there are a few items that have stayed on the list recently that we are struggling to buy in bulk, so if you are looking to support us, it would be great if you could donate these. They are: Long life orange juice Tinned meats […]

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Festive Opening Hours 2023

Our foodbank centres and telephone lines will be open as usual over the festive period apart from on the following dates: Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 December – all centres, warehouse and phone line closed Monday 1 January – all centres, warehouse and phone line closed Details of our usual opening times and locations are […]

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Fantastic support from local organisations

We are very grateful for the support from several organisations in the last few weeks. Our thanks go to Bramhall Runners who popped in to present us with a cheque from the entry fees from their Summer 5k series, Ollie from Vernon Lodge who popped in with a financial donation from the members, staff from […]

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Stockport Foodbank launches Reverse Advent 2023

Today we are launching our 2023 Reverse Advent campaign. The idea is simple; instead of or as well as taking something out of your Advent calendar in the run up to Christmas, please can you donate an item to Stockport Foodbank? If you start your Reverse Advent donation by buying a bag for life at […]

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Great support from corporates

We’ve had some brilliant support from the corporate world in the last week. A big thank you to Foresters Financial UK who provided funding to purchase essential items recently and then provided some corporate volunteers to spend the day with us sorting and dating the donations. And a big thanks to Nova Tissue Company for a […]

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