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Thanks to Bedford Borough Council

Huge thanks to Bedford Borough Council for their grant of £23,000 to Bedford Foodbank, your local Foodbank registered charity. This will allow us to continue providing emergency 3-day food parcels to those in food poverty in Bedford. We have given out 2,179 emergency 3-day food parcels since the Covid-19 crisis began, feeding 4,539 people, 1,574 […]

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Award from High Sheriff of Bedfordshire

We are very grateful to be recognised for the service we provide. Many thanks to all our wonderful volunteers, referral agencies and many other teams that we are working with to help provide local people in crisis with food. Also thank you to the people of Bedford who have continued to support us with food […]

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Thanks for Your Support

The Bedford Foodbank team would like to say a massive thank you to everyone in the community who have continued to support us so faithfully through the present Covid-19 crisis. Food collection bins at all super markets have continued to be full when we call to collect, and we have received additional food and financial […]

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Covid19 Update – updated 28/5/20

At present all foodbank centres remain open except for Scott Hall (Thursdays). We will continue to operate our voucher system so please request a voucher from your referral agency. Please continue to donate food to us, our current needs are: Jam, Jars of Sauce (curry/sweet&sour), Tinned Potatoes, Tinned Carrots, Tea-bags (160), Nappies (size 5+6), Hand […]

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40p For 40 Days Lent Appeal

This year Bedford Foodbank will again be running our 40p for 40 days Lent Appeal. If you would like to support the Foodbank by taking part in this please look at the poster and leaflet below. Many thanks for your support! 40for40 Leaflet and Gift Aid 40for40 Poster  

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The Great Bedford Foodbank £7433 Christmas Challenge – Final Total!

Our Christmas Challenge appeal closed on Christmas Day.  We’d set the target as £7433 because we fed 7433 people in one year (to the end of August 2019).  So, we were hoping to raise the same number of pounds as the number of people we fed. In fact, the grand total for the Christmas Challenge […]

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Massive Thank You to All Our Supporters

We would like to say a massive thank you to all our supporters who have donated food, toiletries and cash donations to Bedford Foodbank this Christmas. Many thanks to everyone!

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Classical Charity Concert

Grace in the Community Church are kindly organising a Classical Charity Concert in aid of Bedford Foodbank. The concert is on Friday 29th November 2019 at Elstow Abbey. Please see the poster below. Classical Charity Concert by Grace Church

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Christmas Reverse Advent Calendar

Would you like to join in our Christmas collection by arranging a Reverse Advent Calendar collection? We have suggested 24 items you may like to collect during December, and then bring to our warehouse, 71 Murdock Road MK41 7PL, from 2nd to 3rd January or 6th to 10th January. 9:30am to 12:00pm. Please see the […]

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The £7,433 Christmas Challenge

Can you support The Great Bedford Foodbank Christmas Challenge? We’re hoping to raise the same number of pounds – £7,433 – as the number of people we fed in the last twelve months! Christmas Challenge

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