Food bank items

thriftyniftyme

Lizling wrote: »

I was in Sainsbury's in a particularly affluent area the other day (not my usual branch!:D) and there was a guy standing near the door handing out lists of items that the local food bank could use (tins, dried food, no perishables.) After the checkouts, there was a big crate for people to put their donations in. I don't think that store even sells anything for under £1, and yet about 2 out of 3 people were donating an item. So it looks like just making it really, really convenient to donate will get you a long way - same as any other group of people.

There was some good stuff in that crate

They collect at my Sainsbury's regularly (deffo not in an affluent area :rotfl:) and I agree it is a really convenient way to donate this way - where I live has the dubious title of 'busiest foodbank' but as a non-driver I would find it hard to donate if I could not do it somewhere local to me. I have to say that the donations at our store tend to be more the value-brand end of the scale, but then, I bet our own trollies do too!

thriftyniftyme

TheBanker wrote: »

A sad reflection on society; I'm used to seeing a bin collecting pet food for the dogs' home. Never thought we'd see similar to feed our fellow man. :mad:

The worst thing is, one of our local supermarkets allows the RSPCA to do food-drive collections outside their store but not the foodbank...

babyshoes

I haven't seen such a collection point at either of the local supermarkets I use. Would gladly throw couple of little bits into the trolley (like the 11p noodles or 6p custard powder), even though OH, who used to be the main wage earner, is currently out of work and we are cutting back an awful lot, we are still a long way off needing a foodbank ourselves!

meritaten

Yes and you could put 'urgently needed items' on posters above the crate!

Karena_3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19953938

This was on BBC news on the web this morning and I thought I would post a link.

Karen.

Popperwell

After 1pm today on Radio 5 they say they are doing a feature on Food Banks and why more people are having to use them...

fuddle

I'd like to see food bank collection bins in all supermarket stores, and hopefully it will happen. I like to add dog food to the pet ones for those animals in shelter. There's no reason why there couldn't be a food bin in each store.

I'm yet to see anything in supermarkets for food banks.

I'm really pleased that DD's school has sent a harvest festival list of items for food banks for us all to add too. Everything I have in abundance in my store cupboard so only too happy to give

Popperwell

I don't know about other SM's but the Tesco's here has a wheelie bin for pet food...It may be for dogs, cats or both. None for any other causes.

They have some kind of tie up with the Channel 4 appeal(I don't know much about it)Stand up for Cancer.

Karena_3

Hi.

Foodbanks that are part of the Trussel Trust franchise tend to have collections in supermarkets on specific days rather than leaving boxes.

Although the Trussel Trust have said they hope to have a foodbank in every community they have up to now developed the programme via local franchises set up through churches.Hence whether there is one in an area has depended on whether there is an active church community with volunteers who can give up a significant amount of time and are prepared and financially able to commit to the Trussel Trust ethos.

Trussel Trust has up to now worked hard to protect the brand .Hence you may not have come across foodbank collection points at all.The projects have local collections and so if you do not have a foodbank in your area you probably won't have collections.