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10 Oct 23

Read Our Latest Newsletter

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. Click here to read our summer newsletter.

26 Sep 23

Santa Dash & Fun Run 10 December

SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER 2023 Dust off those Christmas outfits and join us for a bit of Festive Fun raising funds for the Norwich Foodbank. There are two distances to choose from: 5km for and 2.5km The 5km Santa Dash is aimed at adults and the Festive Run of 2.5km for families, children under 16 or […]

19 Sep 23

Citizen’s Advice are recruiting a new advisor

Citizen’s Advice are recruiting a new advisor to work within our foodbanks centres, more information follow this link.

22 Aug 23

Day of Action Saturday 9th September

On Saturday 9th September 10am – 1pm we’ll be joining the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell Trust foodbanks across the UK to hold a ‘day of action’. The main reason is to galvanise support for the current campaign called ‘Guarantee Our Essentials’ which is about setting a minimum level of benefits that people receive, so […]

9 Aug 23

Work Experience

We were approached by a student asking if they could do their week’s work experience with us in July. We have had requests before and have occasionally said yes but worried that there wouldn’t be enough hours to do meaningful work and help. Last time, we had a politics student who did a project around […]

4 Jul 23

Norfolk Show

As the Mills and Reeve charity of the year, we were invited to their breakfast event at the Norfolk Show this week, with a speech from their senior partner on our work (and well times with the Trussell Trust’s release of their ‘Hunger in the UK’ report that morning) and to generally ‘launch’ our year […]

13 Jun 23

Papal honour for outstanding Norwich volunteer

The outstanding charitable service of a Norwich Catholic parishioner has been recognised by Pope Francis who has awarded Angela Stone a Benemerenti Medal. The medal was presented to Angela by Bishop Peter Collins during morning Mass at St John’s Cathedral on Sunday May 7, the day after King Charles III was crowned, himself promising “not […]

23 May 23

Places where affordable food can be accessed

The Feed in Norwich regularly updates their website with Places where affordable food can be accessed in Norwich. Below is a snippet from their website correct as of 23/05/2023. Please use the link above for their live website. Introduction This list is compiled and distributed by The Feed. Please share it with anyone you think […]

17 May 23

Norwich foodbank was presented with a £1000 cheque from the GMB union

Janice Smith, East Dereham GMB Branch Secretary and London Region GMB Retired Members Association Secretary, took the opportunity to have a look round the warehouse and understand the process of food being donated, weighed in, packed into food parcels and distributed across 11 centres including Wymondham, Wroxham and Earlham by teams of volunteers. Janice said, […]

10 May 23

Norwich Foodbank Volunteer Receives Award

We are very proud to share with you that one of our wonderful volunteers, Mr Barry Gibson received the Freedom Of Loddon award at the weekend for recognition of his work in the community. Loddon Parish Council leader Kay Mason Billing said this at the Coronation Celebration on Sunday 7th May – “The Council were […]

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