Yearly Archives: 2022

7 Dec 22

Christmas and New Year’s Opening Hours

Our distribution centres will run all sessions as usual during the week prior to Christmas. We will be closed on: Monday 26 December, Tuesday 27 December and Monday 2 January 2023. Locations and opening times from 28 to 30 December: WEDNESDAY morning 28 December 2022 – FEED – 10:00 – 12:00. Vineyard Church, 7 Brick Knoll Park, St Albans, AL1 5UG. WEDNESDAY […]

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5 Dec 22

Here’s our Reverse Advent Calendar for 2022!

This Christmas, why not try the Reverse Advent Calendar? All donations go to someone in your local community. If you’ve not tried it before, it’s a wonderful way to make someone’s Christmas special. Many thanks to those who are able to donate – we greatly appreciate it. Merry Christmas! PDF: Foodbank Advent Calendar 2022 22 […]

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16 Mar 22

We won!

We are delighted to have received the London Colney Community Chairman’s Award presented by Cllr Malcolm MacMillan including a cheque from the Parish Council to help stock up our supplies! Since opening in May 2020 we have provided over 1,100 three day emergency parcels to clients from our hub in London Colney. Huge congratulations to […]

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7 Mar 22

Thank you to everyone at Harpenden Vets Football

Thanks again to all at Harpenden Vets Football for their further donation to the Foodbank. We are running short on quite a few items needed for our food parcels so this further donation will come in very handy! Thank you.

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9 Feb 22

The Foodbank is delighted to welcome Rukia Augustine as our new CEO

Rukia joined us this week having worked previously for Garden House Hospice Care and a number of charities and associations addressing the needs of those with housing, debt and welfare rights issues. Rukia brings great experience to our foodbank which will help us all to focus and deliver as best we can to those most […]

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10 Jan 22

Christmas donations for Afghan families

Herts Welcomes Refugees and St Albans for Refugees (Stars) were very grateful for the Christmas donations of chocolates, biscuits, toiletries,etc for the 25 or so Afghan families, waiting in one local hotel to be resettled here, and for two other local hotels where, in each, there are over 120 asylum seekers – some families and […]

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