Supermarkets

Volunteers from the foodbank collect from the supermarkets, usually about once a week, delivering them to our warehouse ready to be used to help people. Other supermarket stores have collections for different charities locally, which makes sure that our community supports a wide range of good causes.

You can donate food to Southend Foodbank any time you shop in these stores:

Asda, North Shoebury Road, Shoeburyness, SS3 8DA

Lidl, 85 London Road, Southend-On-Sea SS1 1PA 

Lidl, 141 Woodgrange Drive, Southend-On-Sea SS1 2SE

Sainsbury’s Local West Leigh, 1355-1369 London Road, Leigh-On-Sea SS9 2AB

Sainsbury’s Local Eastwood, 243 Eastwood Rd, Rayleigh SS6 7LF

Sainsbury’s Local Shoebury, New Garrison Rd, Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea SS3 9BT

Sainsbury’s Local Southchurch, 535 Southchurch Rd, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2AY

Tesco Extra, Prince Avenue, Southend, SS0 0JP

Tesco Express Esso, 500 Southchurch Road SS1 2QA

Waitrose, London Road, Leigh on Sea, SS9 3JQ

Waitrose, Fossetts Way, Eastern Ave, Southend-on-Sea SS2 4DQ

Or see our full list of donation points.

When you donate at a supermarket, you give MORE!

When you donate at Asda, Tesco and Waitrose, the foodbank also gets a top-up payment from the supermarket throughout the year. From Asda this is £2.37 for each kilo of customer purchases that are donated in store; for Tesco the rate is fixed with 15% going to Trussell Trust and 85% going to Southend Foodbank; for Waitrose the £2.37 per kilo is paid from the Food Drive.

Lidl and Aldi provide additional items for free to the foodbank through their Neighbourly partnership, including waste-reduction items. These are collected by volunteers and taken directly to the next foodbank session.

In-store collections

Throughout the year supermarkets invite Southend Foodbank to come into their stores and do a special collection. Volunteers set up a display point, usually near the entrance, and hand out shopping lists, talk about the foodbank and collect donations directly from shoppers – with lots of thanks!  

We always need more people to give a couple of hours at these events. If you’d like to help, please visit our Volunteer page. Under 18s/over 12s are welcome to help at the one-day events with a guardian or parent also helping.

Upcoming supermarket collection dates:

Waitrose Fossetts Way, Southend

15th – 21st September National Food Drive, in store 20th - 21st.

22nd – 23rd November 2024

Waitrose, Leigh-on-Sea

15th – 21st September National Food Drive, in store 18th - 19th.

Tesco Prince Ave, Southend

18th - 19th October 2024

28th – 30th November 2024

Asda, Shoeburyness

Autumn date TBC