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23 Mar 25

Arden Foodbank and Waitrose food drive a huge success

On 21 March, supported by a social media campaign, Arden Foodbank held a hugely successful food drive with Waitrose in Alcester. A small group of volunteers took it in turns throughout the day to ask shoppers if they would consider adding just one item from our shopping list to their trolley. What an incredible response. […]

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16 Feb 25

Team Arden Foodbank Out And About in January

Meet Mary, one of our volunteers in Studley. Mary is a keen walker, and in January she completed the Walk 62 Miles Challenge to help raise money for Cancer Research UK to help fund life-saving research. She set herself a target of walking 2 miles a day, to raise £600. Well, she smashed it! Mary […]

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2 Feb 25

Team Arden Foodbank Out and About … Far and Wide

Meet Neil, one of our volunteers at the Alcester Foodbank. As well as helping people in Alcester, Neil and his wife also volunteer at a soup kitchen organised by an English speaking church in Belgrade, Serbia. They run 3 sessions a week, one for ladies only, and two for anyone.  Between 30 and 50 people […]

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12 Jan 25

2024 numbers

Over our 2 distribution centres, in Alcester & Studley, in 2024 Arden Foodbank fed 1,895 people (including 789 children). That’s over 17,000 meals we provided and that doesn’t include 367 school summer holiday packs and 226 special Christmas parcels. We can’t do any of this without your help. We’d like to extend a huge thank […]

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1 Jan 25

MP visits Alcester Foodbank

  We were delighted to welcome Manuela Perteghella MP to our foodbank in Alcester on Friday 6 December to meet our volunteers and some of our clients. She was keen to hear all about our work and to talk about how we are helping local people who are struggling to even afford the essentials. While […]

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2 Dec 24

Studley Beavers visit the Foodbank

On 12 November we were delighted to welcome the 1st Studley Alne Beavers to the Foodbank in Studley. They had been learning all about foodbanks. They arrived very excited to actually get to see one. After a short talk about our work, they spent the rest of their visit having great fun dating donations and […]

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18 Sep 24

Arden Foodbank holds Ready Steady Cook competition in Studley Pubs

To help raise awareness of Arden Foodbank’s centre in Studley, Arden Foodbank partnered with three local pubs in August. Chefs at the Little Lark, the Railway Inn and the Jubilee competed to see which pub could create and cook the best two course meal using the contents of an emergency food parcel. All parcels were […]

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