We rely on food donations to feed local people in crisis. From packets of pasta to tins of tomatoes please give what you can. Could you donate in-date non-perishable food from our shopping list?
Alongside our regular shopping list, as stocks deplete we may be in urgent need of particular items so please check back here regularly.
Urgent needs as at 19 May are:
- Cereals all sizes
- Small jars coffee
- Tinned pies and tinned meat
- Tinned vegetables (but not peas!)
- Tinned or instant potatoes
- Tinned fruit
- Bars soap, toothpaste, shampoo.
- Jam
- Rice
- Jelly, custard, and longlife puddings of any description.
Donations are welcome at St Paul's Church, Brixton, Tuesdays 10am-1.30pm, Saturdays 11am-2pm, Sundays 11am-1pm and at St Luke's Church, Norwood, Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 3pm or at any Sunday service 10.30am and on the Norwood Feast days. See the diary dates page for more detail.
Thank you.
The Trussell Trust's UK foodbank network works in partnership with local churches and communities to open foodbanks nationwide. There are over 100 foodbanks in the UK. Last year UK foodbanks fed over 60,000 people. Read more
Volunteer Roles
You can volunteer with us in many ways - View full details of the roles available and how to apply.
Current volunteering help needed
We urgently need volunteers to help us with the forthcoming events:
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We are having PR stand at Windrush Square, Brixton on Saturday 9 June and would welcome volunteers to help us, and for those in Brixton to come and visit us! We will have a donation box for food donations as well.
- Supermarket Collection at Sainsbury's Upper Norwood on Saturday 14 July
We need volunteers to help giving out shopping lists and to help collecting and sorting food donations. Even if you can only help for an hour or so, it'd be most appreciated!
Full times can be found on the Diary Dates pages but if you think you can help for some or all of the time please email norwoodfoodbank@btinternet.com.
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Norwood distribution centre
OPEN EVERY WEEK
Tuesdays 10am - 1pm
Fridays 10am - 2pm
Brixton distribution centre
OPEN EVERY WEEK
Tuesdays 10.30am - 1.30pm
Saturdays 11am - 2pm
We are also out spreading the word in the area - check out our diary dates for where we're going to be and come to say hello!
Read real stories of lives changed by the foodbank and view our video to see the vital work the foodbank does
Read real stories of lives changed by the foodbank and view our video to see the vital work the foodbank does
