Christmas

Christmas is a busy time at the foodbank!

The resources for Christmas 2025 will be available from November.

12 Crates of Christmas!

Enjoy the live version of our 12 Crates of Christmas song, featuring local folk heroes the Famous Potatoes from Christmas 2024!

Find out more about donating to Southend Foodbank, including locations and opening times for drop-offs, on our Donate Food pages.

Reverse advent

In the run-up to Christmas, we run a Reverse Advent Calendar.

Check back in November when the resources for 2025 are released.

A grid of 24 items of food to donate, arranged in an advent calendar grid, including: soup, shampoo, mince pies, tinned tomatoes, rice, deodorant, box of biscuits, tinned ham, tinned fish, pasta, jam, cereal, teabags, custard, long life fruit juice, instant mash, tinned vegetables, pasta sauce, tinned potatoes, selection box, toilet rolls, rice pudding, long life UHT milk, tinned fruit. — Southend Foodbank reverse advent calendar

Christmas collections 2025

There will be extra supermarket collections through November and December, where you can give food, cash and cashless donations directly to foodbank volunteers in store.

Tesco Prince Avenue, Southend
Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th is our national winter food collection at Tesco

Asda, Shoeburyness
Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December 2025

Waitrose, Fossetts Way
TBC

Waitrose, Leigh-on-Sea
TBC

If you have a couple of hours spare and would like to volunteer at these events, helping to collect donations and say lots of thank yous, please contact volunteers@southend.foodbank.org.uk