News
6 Mar 19
It’s the first day of Lent – how will you mark this season?
40 pence for 40 days We are asking people to join us in taking small actions to transform lives by giving up 40 pence for 40 days. With the addition of Gift Aid this comes to £20. Or if you feel like challenging yourself to give something up during this period, why not donate the […]
12 Feb 19
Dry February?
After suffering ingress of water for some time in one of our warehouse units and with self-administered remedies proving to be only a very temporary sticking plaster, we finally had a ‘proper job’ done by AKP Roofing Services. All we need now is to get together the £1900 cost. Maybe Amber Rudd could […]
20 Jan 19
Eat a good meal and help us – in style
Feenix is a Southport-based group of ex-Rotarians, who meet up to arrange social events, parties and holidays. They are supporting Southport Foodbank by hosting a Gala Dinner on Friday 1st of February, at the Ramada hotel. Tickets cost £30 and include a 3 course dinner, raffle and disco. Funds raised will go to help the […]
19 Jan 19
What have we been up to?
You can find out by reading our latest Newsletter, which is now on line at Our Latest Newsletter – Winter 2018/19
18 Dec 18
A grand ‘do’
Last week we held a Christmas lunch at SNR Baptist Church for 34 family members nominated by our various distribution centres from their clients. The lunch was prepared and served by our own volunteers helped by Asda and Morrison’s Community Champions and some Asda staff who dressed as elves to serve the food. Asda also […]
12 Dec 18
Advent Awe
For the first time, this year we decided to have a Reverse Advent Calendar project. It has been a tremendous success not only in bringing in more donations for our local families who are in very difficult circumstances at this time, but in generating not only interest but enthusiasm amongst our generous donor community. We […]
5 Dec 18
All done and dusted
With our big collection at Tesco over, and the volunteers recovering, we ended the three days with a healthy total of 4251 kg. This should enable us to provide approximately 3825 meals for local families in difficulties over the coming few months – with an additional 20% to come from Tesco themselves. We could not […]
17 Nov 18
It’s Advent Calendar time
Hopefully, you and your family are lucky enough to be able to look forward to a comfortable and fun-filled Christmas. Please spare a thought for our local families who are not in this position and enable us to help them by taking part in a 12 Days of Christmas Reverse Advent Calendar which starts on […]
3 Nov 18
A token contribution
Do you shop at Waitrose, Formby? Waitrose are great supporters of ours and provide a food collection box in their store in Formby throughout the year. During November you can also help us, at no cost to yourselves, as we are one of the three charities chosen to benefit from their monthly Community Matters’ initiative. […]
25 Oct 18
Hot off the press
Our Autumn 2018 newsletter is now available Foodbank_Autumn_2018_Newsletter_