News
27 Apr 23
Closures and changes of venue – 1st – 8th May 2023
We have some changes to our sessions over the next week or so: Monday 1st May – this is a Bank Holiday so all centres, our offices and warehouse will be closed Thursday 4th May – our Reddish Centre is operating as a polling station so the foodbank session will locate to nearby St Elisabeth’s […]
30 Mar 23
Amazing support from Novanta Photonics (Stockport)
Employees from the Heaton Mersey branch of Novanta Photonics spent two days with us in March 2023 to help sort donations as part of their community volunteering initiative. The teams sorted, dated and processed a huge amount of donations for us at our warehouse in Hazel Grove. It was great to see the teams in […]
27 Mar 23
Easter opening hours 2023
Our centres will close on Good Friday (7 April) and Easter Monday (10 April). Other than those two days, we will be open as normal and, where possible, we will be enhancing our food parcels with Easter treats.
9 Feb 23
Opening hours and donations
Donations can be dropped to our warehouse at Hazel Grove Baptist Church between 9am and 12noon, Monday to Friday. The warehouse is based in the car park at the back of the church and is accessed via Wild Street, SK7 4EX. We do accept small donations at our foodbank centres during foodbank sessions, but we […]
10 Jan 23
New opening hours for our Hazel Grove centre
Please note that our opening hours on a Friday at Hazel Grove Baptist Church will now be 11.30am until 1.30pm. This change will take place from Friday 13 January 2023.
10 Jan 23
Donations – January 2023
We have just completed our stocktake and the list of items we are short of is below. It’s a short list because we had an amazing amount of donations over the festive period – thanks so much to everyone who supported us. Donations can be left in collection baskets in supermarkets or dropped to our […]
8 Dec 22
Opening hours over the festive period
Our foodbank centres and telephone lines will be open as usual over the festive period apart from on the following dates: Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 December – all centres and phone line closed Monday 2 January – all centres and phone line closed Our warehouse will be closed to donations from Friday 23 December […]
7 Nov 22
Stockport Foodbank launches Reverse Advent 2022
Turning Advent on its head During Advent we look forward to taking chocolate or other treats from our calendar – but perhaps this year we can ask you, your family, work colleagues, church congregation or neighbours to put something back into our community to help those in need? Could you add a daily food item […]
20 Sep 22
BIG HEARTED CUSTOMERS AT JOSEPH HOLT PUBS DONATE THOUSANDS TO FOOD BANKS ACROSS THE NORTH-WEST
We were delighted to receive a massive boost to our funds from Joseph Holt pubs across the region over the Summer. The 173-year-old family owned, Manchester-based brewery collected nearly £130,000 from big hearted customers as part of its annual charity appeal. This has now been distributed to six different charities devoted to helping people struggling […]
1 Sep 22
Donations
We generally have good stock levels but we are running low on a few key items – UHT milk, long life fruit juice, tinned vegetables (carrots, peas and sweetcorn) and tinned fruit. We have collection baskets in a number of supermarkets across the town and we also welcome donations direct to our warehouse which is […]