News
3 Jul 20
Our thanks again to St Albans
Our thanks once again to St Albans Round Table and to all those that supported us on a rather wet and windy day this weekend as we travelled through St Albans town centre and St Michaels. It might have rained but we still collected over 1.5tonnes of food and other essentials and some £700 in […]
3 Jul 20
Waitrose Harpenden, Aylett Nurseries and Odyssey Cinema – thank you!
Our thanks go to Waitrose Harpenden for selecting St Albans & District Foodbank as one of its charity partners under its Green Token Scheme.We use donations such as this to ensure that the food parcels are complete when sent to one of our six Distribution Centres throughout the district. Thank you again Waitrose! Our thanks […]
16 Jun 20
Thank you Fleetville, Camp and Highfield!
Our street collection with St Albans Round table was a great success. The sun shined and we collected over 3 tonnes of donations and nearly £1,000 in cash. We are very grateful and have already sorted and stored the donations ready for inclusion in food parcels that will be distributed through one of our six […]
27 May 20
Thanks St Albans Round Table and thanks to all those who have supported us.
On 23 and 24 May Santa lent his sleigh for street collections in the Marshalswick and Townsend neighbourhoods and collected the massive total of 2.2 tonnes of food and other essential items plus some £1,200 cash donations. What a result! Santa has kindly agreed to lend his sleigh for further collections in the Fleetville and […]
22 May 20
We are incredibly thankful for your support Ocado
We are incredibly thankful for your support Ocado. Your donation will help us cope with the huge uplift in demand we have been experiencing; at the peak of the pandemic it was over 400%. Demand has settled the last couple of weeks at around 200% our normal. These are huge numbers and our volunteers have […]
21 May 20
Congratulations Lions and many thanks from all of us at the St Albans & District Foodbank
The Foodbank is grateful to the St Albans and Harpenden Lions Clubs. Following prior donations the Lions offered further help to the Foodbank and carried out its own collection on our behalf . We are pleased to record that the Lions target of £2,500 was reached which together with Gift Aid and a further one […]
17 May 20
St Albans, your local foodbank needs your help!
Your local foodbank needs your help! St Albans Round Table will be collecting any non-perishable food, giftcards or donations left on doorsteps using the famous Santa’s Sleigh. Saturday 23rd May – Marshalswick Sundat 24th May – Townsend More routes to follow! Acceptable items include: Pasta Rice Noodles Longlife milk/juice Instant mash Tinned meet, fish or […]
17 May 20
New foodbank – Caledon Community Centre, every Friday from 10am till 12 noon until further notice
In response to the current challenging times, we at the St Albans and District Foodbank will be opening a sixth foodbank for a trial period From 22nd May 2020 – we will be at the Caledon Community Centre every Friday from 10am till 12 noon until further notice The Caledon Community Centre Caledon Road London […]
16 May 20
Many thanks to Loreto College in St Albans
We are very grateful to the staff, pupils and parents of Loreto College for their most generous donation to help the St Albans & District Foodbank in delivering essentials to those most in need in the district.
14 May 20
Well done Harpenden!
Over the weekend of 9 and 10 May and also during the evening of 12 May, Harpenden Round Table carried out a street collection on our behalf. Your generosity has blown us away! Over 8 tonnes of food and essentials were collected together with over £5,000 of cash donations. We cannot express enough thanks to all those […]