News | Stockport Foodbank

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 […]

25 Aug 22

Closed Bank Holiday Monday – 29 August

Please note our centres, warehouse and telephone line will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday – 29th August.

29 Jun 22

Tesco food collection 30 June – 2 July

With food and energy prices soaring, sadly more people are being forced to use food banks. This is why Tesco are supporting us and FareShare this month with their Food Collection. From 30 June until 2 July, you will be able to donate to us at Tesco stores in #Portwood and #Handforth to help us […]

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