News
16 Mar 21
Swale Foodbank Partner With Spareable
Swale Foodbank are thrilled to announce that we have now partnered with Spareable – an app that donors can download and use to donate specific items to us. These are combined with the donations of many others and then a bulk order will be delivered directly to our warehouse. We will keep our wishlist updated […]
30 Oct 20
Christmas Appeal Launch: Hampers Of Hope
Swale Foodbank are excited to launch our Christmas campaign which we are calling ‘Hampers Of Hope’. If you have been following us for a while, you will know that we run a campaign each year. This year, like everything else, it will be a little different – but we are determined to still ensure as […]
18 Sep 20
Swale Foodbank Are Hiring!
Swale Foodbank Are Hiring! We are looking for the right person to become our Warehouse Co-ordinator – could it be you? If you enjoy working with people from all walks of life, if you enjoy bringing order out of chaos, if you are available for 8 hours mid week, have a full, clean licence and, […]
15 Jul 20
Swale Foodbank Achieves Charitable Status
Swale Foodbank achieved charitable status yesterday, Monday 13th July. We would like to thank all those who helped us to get to this point and we look forward to the future, whatever it holds. We have 4 new trustees who will watch over our organisation and ensure that everything we do complies with various guidelines […]
17 Apr 20
IMPORTANT COVID-19 CHANGES
Along with many organisations, Swale Foodbank have had to make drastic changes to how we run things for the foreseeable future. We are now a ‘delivery-only’ foodbank – all 4 of our centres are now closed and you cannot access help via them. Anyone needing a voucher can call us direct on 07486 370709 or […]
20 Nov 19
Amazing Generosity…from a little girl!
We were honoured to have the amazing Neeve visit us at Swale Foodbank this Tuesday, along with her school friends and staff from their school, The Oaks. Neeve had asked her Mum if she could donate all of her birthday presents to us at foodbank so we could give them to children who won’t be […]
14 Nov 19
Foodbank usage on the rise
Here is a really interesting article by Kent Online that our project Manager, was asked to be involved in, along with colleagues from Medway and Deal. This highlights the need for the service we offer to those in crisis in our area. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/use-of-food-banks-up-25-216153/?fbclid=IwAR0vSxeC17T2EtGaq1Uf9P-c-t1W7nRLNmbJAVOhcWRSaLjVwIwkFT2aaOc
11 Nov 19
Reverse Advent Appeal 2019
Swale Foodbank are excited to officially launch our Reverse Advent appeal for the 3rd year running! Each year, you our local community amaze us with your incredible generosity and we hope that Christmas 2019 will be just the same! Swale Foodbank’s Reverse Advent appeal takes place from 1st-24th December. Each day of advent, rather than […]
21 Dec 17
Food banks in 2017: Change is Possible
Read the new report Emergency Use Only II Three years ago, CPAG and the Trussell Trust were among the organisations who published Emergency Use Only, one of the first pieces of research to shed light on the drivers of the enormous increases in food bank use that we have seen this decade. We found that the […]
15 Jun 17
UK foodbank use continues to rise
UK foodbank use continues to rise as new report highlights growing impact of Universal Credit rollout on foodbanks. Over 1,182,000 three day emergency food supplies given to people in crisis in past year – 436,000 to children New report on Universal Credit reveals adverse side effects on people claiming and foodbanks providing help The Trussell […]