News
Welcome to our news section with the latest from our Food Bank and the Trussell Trust. Follow us on social media and keep up to date with campaigns to stop hunger.
11 Aug 22
Thanks to Waitrose
Huge thanks to Waitrose Community Champions Team at East Grinstead for a very generous cheque for £500 – that’s a whole lotta love!
13 Dec 21
Christmas Bag pack 2021
Settle back for two minutes and watch the elves at the East Grinstead Foodbank pack 216 double bags for the Christmas bag pack. We are incredibly grateful to all the volunteers who turned up to help us and of course to all those of you who donated the food which made it all possible. Thank […]
13 Oct 21
Harvest and Christmas Appeal 2021
Tinned Fruit, Custard & Rice Pudding, Jam Tinned Tuna, Hot Dogs, Ham, Meatballs & Tomatoes Tubs of sweets, Biscuit selection boxes Tinned vegetables, Packets of biscuits Pasta sauce, Tubes of crisps Please ensure all items will be in date at Christmas THANK YOU
16 Jul 21
A new way at Waitrose East Grinstead
There’s a new way to pick what the East Grinstead Foodbank needs each week when you do your shopping! The Community support team have begun bagging items at the front of the store and pricing them for pick-up, pay and donate at the collection point after the tills. There are items to suit any pocket […]
18 Jun 21
Summer Picnic Bag Appeal
We are planning to send out fun bags of picnic-style items this Summer for our summer bag pack. Because we don’t usually hold many of these items in stock, we are hoping to persuade schools, churches, community groups and businesses to collect an item from our list! This will greatly help us to make the […]
25 May 21
2021 Movement for Good awards
Today Ecclesiastical are launching their £1m Movement for Good awards. They’re proud to be giving back to the communities they serve and championing the issues that really matter to you, especially in this time of need – working together to build a movement for good. With your help we could win a £1,000 donation Designed […]
7 Mar 21
An Honour for the East Grinstead Foodbank Team
We are incredibly honoured to receive this unexpectedly from our MP Mims Davies this week. It’s great for our team of dedicated volunteers both past and present who have steered us through the Lockdown since April Last year and continue to do so. We cannot, of course, forget all the people of this amazing town […]
11 Jan 21
Covid Lockdown 3
Our hard-working team of volunteers working from home and on the front line ask for your patience while we transition to a revised version of the foodbank working system we introduced during Lockdown 1 more here Our e-voucher system is working and, in partnership with our usual referral agencies and our call-back team we can […]