Harvest Festival Donation Ideas

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I've had a letter from son's school asking for donations towards the harvest festival next friday. I have no problem sending him in with something, I remember taking tins of soup I think when I was at school.

However, I know all the offerings will go to charity and wondered what would be most useful to them.

If anyone knows or has any useful suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Tropez

Tinned stuff that doesn't spoil quickly I would assume.

If it is likely to go to feeding homeless people or people who have other difficulties in feeding themselves, something filling and cheap like baked beans would seem a good bet.

rachbc

anything dried or tinned - soup, pasta, tuna/ sardines, frey bentos pie, biscuits etc etc

Xaniwoop

Our church collects food for Birmingham City Mission who use the donations in food parcels, we were particularly asked for tea, coffee, sugar and breakfast cereal as people need these everyday. It depends a little on where the food is going, if it's going direct to the elderly I'd be tempted to get some nice biccies or a treat type food that they might otherwise not afford but if it's a food bank I'd go for long lasting basics. Hope that helps.

AllyBabe

Do you you where they are donating the items to? If it is within the community, I would send tinned fruit and chunky, filling soups.

Our school sends the donations to a charity who then ship them out to Africa, so we are asked to bring packets of rice, dried pasta, dried pulses, sugar and dried fruit with long use by dates on them.

Ally

LEJC

I've recently had a letter home regarding this too...it would seem that our suggestions are
Tinned foods
tea bags
rice or pasta or spaghetti

basically non perisables with quite a good use by date...

Its always safe to go with things like soup or tinned vegetables or even canned fruit..possibly tinned tuna that type of thing...I tend to stay away from the beans and kidney beans as I remember one year they put all the donated food on a table at the school and there were far more baked and kidney beans than everything else put together...

dbt3mummy

When I was at school our offerings used to go to the eldery who lived in our village.

You never saw a tin of something on the table, it was always fresh fruit and veg, plaited breads, biscuits, cakes etc.

I'm only 28 so I'm not talking about decades ago. They used to make hampers up and delivery them directly after the festival

escortg3

dbt3mummy wrote: »

When I was at school our offerings used to go to the eldery who lived in our village.

You never saw a tin of something on the table, it was always fresh fruit and veg, plaited breads, biscuits, cakes etc.

I'm only 28 so I'm not talking about decades ago. They used to make hampers up and delivery them directly after the festival

Same where i live, always fruit and veg, Bread and flour

narabanekeater

with our school its tins and things like coffee, tea and sugar. Also UHT milk would be a great help

Mk14:37

I remember our Head of Year telling us in later years of secondary not to bring beans or tinned peaches, which were really cheap back then. But anything else in packets or cans, the higher quality the better, would I'm sure be gratefully received. When I was very young we used to collect the crab apples from the single tree at school and my mum made jars of crab apple jelly for the harvest festival.

claire16c

Im late 20s and we used to mainly bring tins and veg. Anything that would last for at least a week.