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Urgently Needed Items

Urgently Needed Items

Below is a list of the most urgently needed items. Tinned Meats – Meals Tea & Coffee Fruit Juice Microwave Rice Skimmed Milk Powder & Long Life Milk Peanut Butter Tinned Fruit / Tinned Custard / Rice Pudding Tinned Potatoes, Carrots, Garden Peas Wash Powder Toiletries – Toilet Paper Cereals Sugar Biscuits / Chocolate Cleaning […]

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URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS

URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS Below is a list of the most urgently needed items. Fruit Juice Tinned Meats – Meals Microwave Rice Skimmed Milk Powder & Long Life Milk Peanut Butter Tinned Fruit / Tinned Custard / Rice Pudding Tinned Potatoes, Carrots, Garden Peas Wash Powder Toiletries – Toilet Paper Cereals Sugar Biscuits / Chocolate Cleaning […]

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URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS

Below is a list of the most urgently needed items. (Update 7th May 2022) Fruit Juice Tinned Meats – Meals Microwave Rice Skimmed Milk Powder & Long Life Milk Peanut Butter Tinned Potatoes, Carrots, Garden Peas Tinned Custard & Rice Pudding Wash Powder Toiletries – Toilet Paper Cereals Chocolate Cleaning (Disinfectants, washing up liquid, dishcloths […]

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Summer Collection 2021 – Many thanks!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our foodbank & @UKFareShare during this year’s Tesco Summer Food Collection. We’re working towards a #HungerFreeFuture but these donations will make such a difference to families in crisis this summer. Thank you! #EveryCanHelps Thanks to all the Managers, Community Champions & Staff at Tesco Newtown & […]

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Summer Food Collection @Tesco 15th – 17th July 2021

It’s the first day of @Tesco’s Summer Food Collection! We’d love to have your support. Find your local food bank’s most needed items here

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Diolch yn fawr iawn! Thankyou very much!

We would like to thank our referral agencies, volunteers, churches, chapels, the many local schools, and Young Farmers who have supported Welshpool and District Foodbank with collections, both food and monetary, in 2020-21. Also, our thanks go to our local supermarkets, Tesco (Welshpool & Newtown), Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and the Llanfyllin Spar and for the invaluable […]

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New lockdown and Christmas

The foodbank will continue to operate as usual throughout the latest Welsh lockdown. We will also be working throughout the Christmas period. If referral agencies make a referral before 1:30pm on Christmas Day we will fulfil on Christmas Day. Also if a referral agency needs to refer before Christmas day we will endeavour to fulfil […]

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Food Collection 19th to 21st November

Thanks to everyone who donated at the Tesco food collection this year. Also many thanks to the community champions both in Welshpool & Newtown stores, we really appreciate the work you did. How the Food Collection works This time of year can be very difficult for families and individuals who are already managing on extremely […]

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Update following announcement of “firebreak” lockdown 19th October 2020

After the announcement today (19/10/2020) from the Welsh First Minister concerning the lockdown starting from Friday (October 23) and lasting until November 9 we would like to inform all referral agencies and clients that our foodbank will endevour to operate as normal.

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News Update 5th October 2020

First we would like to thank everyone who has donated money or food over the period of the lockdown. We really appreciate your generosity and kindness. The foodbank has seen a steady increase in numbers accessing the foodbank over the last two months so your continued support is vital. Please see our updated shopping list, […]

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