News | Arden Foodbank

23 Jun 25

MP joins our volunteers at Alcester Court Leet street market

Arden Foodbank enjoyed a fabulous afternoon at Alcester Court Leet Street Market on Sunday 8 June. Volunteers Janet and Christine were joined by our MP, Manuela Perteghella. A huge thank you to Manuella for giving us her time and support. They all had a great time meeting people and chatting about our work. Thank you […]

22 Jun 25

Celebrating our wonderful volunteers

At Arden Foodbank we are all unpaid volunteers. We have no paid staff. To celebrate Volunteers Week at the beginning of June, we said a huge thank you to all our amazing volunteers. To those who help each week at our food banks in Studley and Alcester; to those who transport the food and other […]

26 May 25

Arden Foodbank Out and About at Alcester Food Festival

Our volunteers enjoyed a lovely day meeting people visiting our small stand on Church Green outside St.Nicholas’Church this May. Thank you to everyone who came to talk to us to find out more about our work to combat poverty. Trussell’s UK Roadmap identifies 8 building blocks to ending the need for Foodbanks, and our small […]

30 Apr 25

Our April Newsletter is here!

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31 Mar 25

Arden Foodbank Manager retires

On 28 March, we said goodbye to our much loved manager, Susan Kinnersley, who has been our leader since the Foodbank was set up 13 years ago. Over those years, Susan has seen many changes. From the early beginnings when a handful of volunteers served a small number of customers; through covid, when many more […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

1 Jan 25

Record number of Christmas packs delivered to schools

Over a two day period in December, Arden Foodbank was busy packing 226 Christmas hampers and delivering them to our local primary schools, for distribution to families who need a little extra help this Christmas. That’s 2.5 tons, packed into 452 bags and delivered to 10 schools, by 27 volunteers. Each child received two Christmas […]

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