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3 Dec 24

Blue Boar Tesco Collection Update

Thank you for your support with Blue Boar Tesco food-drive. We raised £714.01, collected 73 crates of food which weighed 730.5kg.

8 Nov 24

Christmas Appeal 2024

We have now launched our Christmas Appeal. We ask that donations be brought to our warehouse early December so we can get items distrubuted to households in time for Christmas. Thank you to all our supporters.

6 Nov 24

Autumn Newsletter

Welcome to the newsletter of Norwich foodbank. We hope you will find this to be of interest whether our local Christian charity is new to you or you are a regular supporter. A really big THANK YOU to everyone who supports us—our volunteers, donors of food, toiletries and money, those who pray for us, invite […]

29 Oct 24

Theatre Royal Collection

We are excited to announce that, during our October Theatre Royal collections, 101 crates of food/ personal hygiene items were donated by members of the public. This amounted to a grand total of 1.382 tonnes of donations. Thank you to every volunteer who helped with the collections and also driving the donations back to Ivy […]

22 Oct 24

Asda Norwich, Hall Road Collection Update

We are delighted to announce that our recent collection at Asda Norwich, Hall Road was a tremendous success! The food collected over the two days weighed an amazing 480.10kg and £240.78 was collected. Thank you so much to all the shoppers who gave so generously, amazing volunteers and Asda Community Champion Lee.

9 Oct 24

Norwich Theatre to collect Foodbank donations during Come From Away

Norwich Theatre is asking theatregoers to replicate the community spirit of the show by donating items of non-perishable food when they visit Norwich Theatre Royal during its two week run. Norwich Foodbank donation points will be at Norwich Theatre Royal from 15 October to coincide with the arrival of the show and will finish on the last performance […]

8 Oct 24

Bishop prays for Norwich Foodbank to not exist

Norwich Foodbank should not exist was the prayer of the Bishop of Norwich as he paid a visit to the charity’s food and packing warehouse on Henderson Business Park in the city earlier today. The Rt Rev Graham Usher said: “My prayer today, above all, is that this place shouldn’t exist,” during his visit to […]

6 Sep 24

Give Today

Give Today is a simple and effective way of allowing people to donate items from our most needed list directly to us. Items that we have listed and then bought by donors are sourced by Give Today from ethical suppliers and delivered directly to our warehouse. The platform is free for us to use (for […]

3 Sep 24

Essentials Guarantee

Our current campaign is to see an Essentials Guarantee. The basic rate of Universal Credit should at least cover the cost of essentials like food, household bills and travel, but it is not currently set according to any objective assessment of what people need. This is only £91 a week for a single adult. That […]

1 Aug 24

Unauthorised Collections taking place. Please be aware.

An article has been published today in the Evening News and we would also like to release the following statement: Norwich Foodbank statement regarding fraudulent door-to-door collections “It has come to our attention that a woman claiming to be collecting on behalf of Norwich Foodbank has been going door-to-door in communities in the NR3 area […]

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