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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11 Oct 24

Harvest Donations from Spaxton Primary School

Bridgwater Foodbank has received more harvest festival donations, this time from Spaxton Primary School, see photo below. All donations are gratefully received, big thank-yous to the children and staff for the food and provisions. They all help to support the needy of Bridgwater and surrounding area. If your school or business can donate any food […]

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8 Oct 24

Puriton Primary School donates for Harvest Festival

Puriton Primary School has donated nearly 250kg of food and provisions to the Bridgwater Foodbank from their Harvest Festival celebrations (see photo below). The donations were collected from the school on Friday afternoon, the children and staff helped to load everything into the Foodbank van. Huge thanks to all the children and staff who donated! […]

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15 Jul 24

New Conservative MP for Bridgwater, Ashley Fox, visits the Foodbank.

We were delighted to welcome our new MP for Bridgwater, Ashley Fox, to Bridgwater Foodbank on Friday 12th July. He met some of our clients, our volunteers, our Manager, our Warehouse Manager and our Life President. We’re looking forward to working together to support the people in need in this constituency.

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21 Jun 24

Cllr Leigh Redman , Labour Party MP candidate, visits the Foodbank.

Cllr Leigh Redman , Labour Party MP candidate, visited Bridgwater Foodbank this morning, 21st June. He is a long-standing supporter of the Foodbank. Here he is with Molly and Ash, two of our Friday volunteers, in our warehouse. Leigh could see that our shelves have less stock than they used to.

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19 Jun 24

Charlie Graham, the Green Party candidate at the election, visits the Foodbank.

Charlie Graham, Green Party Candidate, visited the Bridgwater Foodbank this morning, 19th June. He had done his research before he came and found a list of items we urgently need in our food depot. It is important that we vote for candidates/parties that will address the underlying reasons that cause people to fall in to […]

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17 Jun 24

Pele Barnes, the Independent MP candidate for Bridgwater at the Foodbank.

On the 3rd June, Pele Barnes the Independent MP candidate for Bridgwater, came to visit the Foodbank. He was unaware that Foodbank gets no support from the council or any official bodies. Instead everything that happens at Foodbank is the result of donations by members of the public and every member of the staff team […]

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17 Jun 24

Claire Sully, Bridgwater’s Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, visits us.

Claire Sully, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for the new Bridgwater, Burnham and Highbridge constituency, has made it a priority to talk about food banks. Claire visited Bridgwater’s Foodbank in Mount Street Day Centre in late May, where demand for services has increased by 250% since its foundation in 2013, as more and more residents […]

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11 Sep 23

Thank You

Our new annex has been in use for a little while now, and we are delighted by the extra space and functionality it provides. The original building has also been refurbished to provide, among other things, an inviting space to welcome clients. We are very grateful to the people and organisations who have helped us […]

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19 Jun 23

New Annex in use!

We moved into the new annex just over a month ago and its working well. We now have all our stock in one place which gives us a clear vision of our stock rather than having it in different locations.

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9 Jan 23

Thank you for Christmas support

Here at Bridgwater food bank we have been totally overwhelmed by the generosity of local individuals and businesses in the run up to Christmas and New Year. Thanks to all you amazing folk we have managed to feed well over 1,500 people giving out 9.5 tonnes of food. The work goes on, we will soon be acknowledging the […]

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