News
20 Sep 13
The Sentinel’s Our Heroes Award
The volunteers for Stoke-on-Trent Foodbank were runners up at the 8th annual Our Heroes Awards on Thursday 19th September. A big thank you to all those that volunteer and to everyone for your donations and support; we hope this will continue so we can continue to offer a lifeline to so many people. http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Celebrities-VIPs-gather-Sentinel-s-Heroes-Awards/story-19819281-detail/story.html
1 Aug 13
Please do not confuse…
URGENT NEWS Please do not confuse “Staffordshire Food Bank” with Newcastle or Stoke-on-Trent Foodbank “Staffordshire Foodbank” is a business and will be selling any donated food from a shop on Church Street, Newcastle. If you receive a flyer through your letterbox, please don’t confuse us with them. Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle Foodbanks do not distribute flyers. […]
1 Jul 13
New Distribution Centre opening
A new distribution centre will be opening in Biddulph from Thursday 25th July at the English Martyrs R C Church, St Johns Road.
20 Apr 13
Quiz Night
A Quiz Night will be held at Wesley Hall Church, Noblett Road, Sneyd Green on Saturday 20th April at 6:30pm. Teams of up to 5 welcome. Donate an item of long-life food plus £1 per person. All are welcome to come along and enjoy.
13 Apr 13
The Trolley Push 2013
For more information about The Trolley Push 2013 event please visit www.trusselltrust.org/trolleypush/. Check out the Trolley Push 2013 routes Don’t forget to join us to celebrate at Wesley Hall Church in Sneyd Green at 7pm to meet “Phil the Trolley” and his best friend “Fiona the Trolley”
16 Feb 13
A massive thanks to Morrisons
A massive thank you to the customers and staff of Morrisons Supermarket, Festival Site, Stoke-on-Trent. 730kg of much needed food was donated by the generous customers during our collection today.
28 Jan 13
We’re running low on…
Since launching last May, we have fed over 4,200 people throughout Stoke-on-Trent. However, our stocks are starting to run low and we desperately need more food donations. We are in very short supply of: Sugar Tinned Meat Tinned Fish Pasta Sauce You can bring your food donations to Wesley Hall Church, Sneyd Green (any day) […]
2 Dec 12
2012 Food drive total
An amazing weekend of donations from the shoppers at Longton and Hanley Tesco has resulted in an amazing total of 2774.4 kg to help feed local people in Stoke on Trent this Christmas. Donations from Tesco Hanley shoppers weighed in at 1073.2 kg and from Tesco Longton shoppers at 1701.2 kg. Huge thanks to Tesco […]
30 Nov 12
Since we launched in May…
So far we have fed over 2000 people since we launched in May and received over 31 tons of food; with over 14 tons being donated over Harvest. This is largely from donations from local Churches and schools. This is an amazing amount. Thank you to anyone who has donated. We are expecting the numbers […]
8 Nov 12
Tesco national food drive – 29/30 November 2013
Once again, Tesco is working with Trussell Trust Foodbanks to run Supermarket Food Drives at the end of this month. Stoke-on-Trent Foodbank will be working with the Tesco Extra stores at Longton and Hanley. (A food drive is where we invite customers to add an item or two to their shopping and donate it to […]