We are always in urgent need of food donations, specifically: 1.Tinned meat, 2.Tinned vegetables, 3.Long-life milk, 4.Cereals, 5.Toilet rolls, 6.Washing-up liquid.

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10 Nov 25

Reverse Advent Calendar 2025

With Christmas approaching, Bridgwater Foodbank are preparing for a tough winter. You can help by collecting for our “Reverse Advent Calendar”. Instead of receiving a treat each day, you could instead donate to the Foodbank and build up enough items to support one family over the Christmas period. Whether you collect in your home, school […]

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24 Oct 25

Huge Harvest Donation from Chilton Trinity School.

With Harvest Festival in full swing we have had a huge donation from Chilton Trinity School again this year. A whopping 667kg of food, that’s two-thirds of a tonne, was donated by the pupils and staff. It filled the Foodbank van to the top, see photo. Thank you so much to all the children, staff […]

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17 Oct 25

Volunteers Annual Gathering 2025

The Foodbank volunteers, Foodbank friends and associates met at the Purple Spoon cafe on Thursday evening for the annual ‘thank you’ for all the help and work they do. Organised by the Foodbank Co-ordinator and Manager, it was a lovely evening to catch up informally with volunteers and friends and others that might work on […]

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26 Sep 25

Big donation from The Duke pub & Boom Tingz Burgerz!

This week we received a fantastic donation from The Duke pub and Boom Tingz Burgerz in the High Street in the form of 3 trolley loads of provisions, see photos below. Money raised by both venues enabled them to go out and buy items we need for distribution to Bridgwater. In total they provided over […]

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10 Sep 25

Harvest Festival 2025 Collection Push

Are you or your school, church or community group thinking of supporting Bridgwater Foodbank with a Harvest Collection? We accept donations of food and money, so are happy to receive whatever you can give. You can donate money from our Donate page here. And here is a list of most urgently needed items at Foodbank […]

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1 Aug 25

Westfield Street Cafe raises £110 for the Foodbank

Just to say big thank yous to the Westfield Street Café for the fab donation earlier this week and to Lesley Gates for organising it. Their ‘Pop-up’ raised £110 which was duely spent at Morrison’s on provisions for the Foodbank, see image. All these donations really do help those in need in Bridgwater, thank you […]

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8 Jul 25

Foodbank Warrior Lily raises £165!

6yr old Foodbank Warrior Lily visited Foodbank today with a trolley load of items she had bought with a part of the £165 she raised from her cake sale at the weekend. She has more money to spend, so we look forward to receiving the next batch! This will help so many people in the […]

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8 Jul 25

Mayoral visit to highlight need for more donations

Bridgwater Mayor Councillor Kathy Pearce visited Bridgwater Foodbank, to see for herself how many empty shelves there are, see photos below. So far in 2025, the Foodbank has given out 6 tonnes more food than it has received. Please help with donations if you can.

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16 Jun 25

Food Drive at Asda fills the van!

Some pictures from our really successful Food Drive at Asda over the weekend. Thanks to everyone in Bridgwater who donated food for the Foodbank, we filled the van as you can see! Thanks also to the volunteers who gave up their Saturday to be there for the collection – especially Lesley Gates and her team. […]

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13 Jun 25

Urgent plea as donations fall.

We made the Bridgwater Mercury, you can also read the article online here: https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/25221077.bridgwater-foodbank-appeals-donations-decline/, we urgently need donations! Any items will help, but specially: Tinned meat Tinned vegetables Long-life milk Cereals Toilet rolls Washing-up liquid. We are handing out more food than we are getting in, so are having to buy in. Although we have […]

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