Christmas 2025

Our Christmas 2025 season starts with our Reverse Advent calendar!

Reverse advent

Start collecting the 24 items now, then bring your donations to us by the first week of December. 

To bring the calendar to life this year, we've asked our colleagues, volunteers and friends to become the calendar!  Each day a face will pop up on our social media channels, to let you know what the item of the day is.

We also have a calendar you can download, print and stick on the fridge. 

We have a full version of the calendar on video below - but watch out! Our social media every day may just have a few celebrity surprises - so keep checking every day!

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
Thursday 11th and Friday 12th December 2025

Waitrose, Leigh-on-Sea
Friday 6th and Saturday 7th November 2025

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 

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

12 Crates of Christmas!

While our Christmas 2025 campaign is still under wraps - enjoy the live version of our 12 Crates of Christmas song, featuring local folk heroes the Famous Potatoes from Christmas 2024!