News

12 Nov 22

Roots Hall 3rd December 2022

Southend Foodbank will be back at Roots Hall on December 3rd for a matchday collection around the ground. It’s an early kick-off, 12.30pm. Whether you’re a regular Shrimper or looking for some live football while your EFL team are taking a break, it’s going to be a good day to get down to Roots Hall […]

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12 Oct 22

Big Give 2022

The Big Give has now closed. Thank you to all our pledgers, donors and supporters. Together we exceeded our target!    This year, Southend Foodbank is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign. Giving Tuesday The Christmas Challenge helps UK-registered charities to raise funds for their projects […]

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29 Sep 22

Southend Foodbank sounds the alarm about a hard winter ahead

On 21st September, we spoke to Sian Roche at Greatest Hits Radio Essex and talked about how August this year being alarmingly busy, plus our worries for the winter ahead due to the cost of living. https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/essex/news/southend-foodbank-winter-bleak-cost-of-living/ “We’ve given away more food this year already than we did in the entirety of last year, so […]

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15 Sep 22

Foodbanks on Radio 2

Earlier today, Jeremy Vine discussed Foodbanks on his Radio 2 programme. Our Media and Campaigns Coordinator Cass Francis joined the discussion, speaking about the 58% increase in referrals we have seen during August 2022. This was the second busiest month for food provision we have recorded, since we opened in November 2013. We’ve had a […]

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30 Jul 22

Football and foodbanks – still Standing Up For our Community

Hunger Doesn’t Wear Club Colours During the 21/22 football season, collections at and around Southend United matches gave over half a tonne of food and toiletries, 600kg, and £2750 to the foodbank. This came through two match-day collections at Roots Hall, hosted by Southend United Community and Education Trust, welcoming the foodbank to set up […]

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30 May 22

Jubilee Bank Holiday closures

This Jubilee weekend, our distribution centre at Earls Hall Baptist Church is CLOSED Friday 3rd June. We are open as normal for the rest of the weekend, details are on the table below:

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30 Mar 22

Spring into Action part 2

This spring, we’ve got lots of ways – 40 – to help you find the one thing you can do to support your local foodbank. Some are free, some take a little time, some you can do from home. Check back as we update the list each week! Whether Lent is a deeply spiritual season […]

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1 Mar 22

Spring into action!

Spring into action! 40 ways to help your foodbank This spring, we’ve got lots of ways – 40 – to help you find the one thing you can do to support your local foodbank. Some are free, some take a little time, some you can do from home. Check back as we update the list […]

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5 Jan 22

Southend Foodbank in 2021

In 2021, Southend Foodbank welcomed 2996 people who had been referred to us, giving food aid to support 8512 people of whom 3934 were children.     To put those figures in context: Every year the foodbank has been open, we have been busier than the previous year. Comparing 2021 with 2020, we supported around […]

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14 Dec 21

Distribution Centre Holiday Closures

These are our scheduled distribution centre statuses over the festive period: Friday 24th Dec – Earls Hall DC is OPEN Saturday 25th Dec – West Leigh is DC CLOSED Monday 27th Dec – Ferndale & Hawkwell DCs are CLOSED Tuesday 28th Dec – Belle Vue DC is CLOSED Wednesday 29th – Eastwood & St Saviours […]

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