News

3 Apr 20

Food Donations

Drop-off point for Foodbank Donations:- St.James Church Hall, Bream Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10.00 am – 1 pm

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3 Apr 20

Delivery Only Service

The Forest Foodbank has been operating a delivery only service to people in financial crisis who have no food. This started on Friday 27th March in Cinderford with a delivery of 16 emergency food parcels in the Cinderford area. We have now also served Coleford and Lydney. In Lydney we are very grateful to the […]

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31 Mar 20

Changes to the Foodbank during the Covid-19 crisis

Covid-19 Update In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Forest Foodbank is changing how food is being distributed to those in financial crisis. This will remain in force until further notice at which point we will return to our normal operation run from our 3 distribution centres. With effect from Friday 27th March 2020, the […]

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26 Mar 20

Donations during Covid-19 crisis

Donations during Covid-19 crisis We are totally reliant on the help and support of our community to provide the Foodbank with food and financial donations. The opportunity to provide food donations is now very limited with the closure of many of the places where our collection bins are located. Additionally, Tesco have removed the collection […]

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23 Mar 20

Coronavirus Update re Councils

Coleford Town Council is now closed and we assume Lydney and Cinderford Town Councils will be closing in the near future. We have provided our Distribution Centres with vouchers. If you are in genuine need of food please go directly to the centres. We would ask that you respect our volunteers through this period, they are working […]

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16 Mar 20

Coronavirus Update

To try to do what we can to try to limit the spread of this virus amongst our vulnerable visitors and volunteers we are taking the following action. From 17th March the Foodbank will no longer be inviting visitors into the church. We will continue to distribute food but from the door so please make […]

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9 Jan 20

A Massive Thank You

We would like to say a massive thank you to The Lighter Side of Life who generously donated a huge £750 to the Forest Foodbank, proceeds from their Christmas stage performance. We wish you well in your future shows!!

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20 Dec 19

Donations

  Just 2 of the amazing donations we have received for Christmas  Thank you so much to everybody who has donated, from individuals to businesses, to shops, to churches, to schools we are overwhelmed at your generosity!

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22 Nov 19

Tesco Collection Update

Over the 3 days of the Tesco collection you very generously gave us 1490kg at Lydney Tesco 1801.65kg at Gloucester Tesco Total collected:- 3292.25 kg A huge thank-you to all who donated and to all who helped with the collection (November 2019)

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27 Sep 19

Healthy Eating on a Budget Scheme

Healthy Eating on a budget Barnardos

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