Harlow Foodbank needs your help as cost of living continues to bite

General / Thu 18th Jul 2024 at 09:21am

HARLOW Foodbank need your help. As the cost of living continues to bite and effect people, the Foodbank are in the position where donations are shrinking but demand continues to increase.

In order to continue to provide food to those that need it they are spending around £2500 per month to supplement the food that is donated.

Can you help by donating some of the items they are desperately short of ?
Tinned veg
Tinned fruit
Fruit juice
long life milk
tinned soup
Tinned Tomatoes

A spokesperson said: “Alternatively we can buy the food for you , in which case hit the donate button below

You can put them in any supermarket bin or drop them to us at the storehouse in matching tye

“Thank you so much for your support as neighbours helping neighbours”.

Click below for more details.

https://www.facebook.com/FoodbankHarlow

7 Comments for Harlow Foodbank needs your help as cost of living continues to bite:

K A Barnard (BossMan)

2024-07-18 11:48:37

I would like to no what % of people attending are actualy british born and how many % are immagrants comming to your foodbank please

Sharon

2024-07-18 15:50:31

Harlow food bank should go to bounty for donations; all the donations bounty get they sell in their shop for almost same as supermarket. they have a whole warehouse full of food that they overcharge people for. (If you go there then you would understand it lost its purpose ages ago imo). Everyone is feeling the pinch.

Peter

2024-07-18 15:57:38

I’m pretty sure they sell most of their donations in the Bounty Club, which is a charity within Harlow food bank. Once it used to help people, you could get meat, fresh produce and cupboard things for £2.50. Then they moved and are selling things for more than is charged in shops, most of it is out of date. For example they’re selling ketchup for £2.70, in farm foods it’s 99p!! Would love to know where the money is going if it’s not going back into the food bank. They’ve completely lost their way and are more money grabbing than helpful now.

Andy Thornton

2024-07-18 17:04:25

Hi Sharon and Peter. We make no money from the Bounty Club, it is subsidised food and branded items are sold for less than what the same brand costs in other supermarkets. Shoppers who want farm foods ketchup should happily buy it there. We are not profiteering in any way. Food donated to the Foodbank goes to people who need it for free as they have no food in the house, not to the Bounty Club. Andy Thornton. CEO MRCT

Salty Sea Dog

2024-07-18 17:39:45

Maybe Carly Burd could help out by handing over some of the missing £180k that the public generously donated to her, purportedly to feed the people of Harlow.

Burly Card

2024-07-19 00:55:46

Anybody asked Carly Burd if she might like to help them out with some of the £160k-180k she should still have from the allotment project that she inexplicably abandoned? Imagine just sitting on all that money with no projects on the board when the community of Harlow could desperately use it.