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Food drives at local supermarkets

We are holding a series of food drives at local supermarkets in Witney.  These events are helpful for us to raise awareness of the aims of the Foodbank and to encourage shoppers to donate items if they can to help keep our stock topped up.  The food drives are taking place on: Saturday 26th April […]

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Working together to break the poverty cycle

Witney and West Oxfordshire Food Bank and Citizens Advice West Oxfordshire have successfully secured funding from Trussell Trust to continue an initiative that seeks to address the underlying causes of food poverty and low income. The Trussell Trust “Financial Inclusion Project” helps people by providing them with the tools and resources needed to improve their […]

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Generating local support

Our Chairman Mick Morris met with Witney’s Liberal Democrat MP Charlie Maynard and colleagues Andrew Powell and Simon Davies in his Witney constituency office. Mick talked to the team about the foodbank’s future plans.

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Kindness ambassadors help others

We are so grateful to West Witney Primary School for collecting 233 boxes of cereal which they set up as a ‘Domino Run’ that snaked through the school.  The event was organised by the school’s Kindness Ambassadors.  A little kindness goes a long way.

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Local pub’s Christmas spirit

The team at the Three Horseshoes ran a campaign asking their customers to bring in donations for the foodbank throughout December.  They delivered two very large donations in the week prior to Christmas totalling nearly 170kg.That was such a great boost to our stock at a particularly busy time of year.  Thank you to the […]

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Oxford Product’s generous donation

A huge thank you to Witney-based Oxford Products, who chose the foodbank as their charity for 2024 and collected an incredible £12,000.  They also responded to a recent request for bags with another generous donation. This was a tremendous boost to our fundraising efforts to support more families in need in West Oxfordshire.  

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Witney park run awareness event

In December our team of volunteers attended the very popular Witney Parkrun event. They collected 52kg of donations and it proved to be a great opportunity to engage with the community and spread awareness of what we do.

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Newsletter August 2024

It’s a little late, but here is our most recent newsletter containing news and updates from our foodbank, including a round up of our supporters over the past few weeks/months, and also our rolling data graphs that show how many people we’ve helped, how many people have helped us and more. Just click the link […]

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The results are in!

The donations have been counted and we are so delighted to announce that the total of our first food drive is.. 876.5kg and £169.12 What an absolutely amazing amount! Thank you to all of you who joined us at Sainsbury’s and donated. All of your food donations will go towards feeding families facing crisis in […]

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New telephone number for Witney and West Oxfordshire foodbank

PLEASE NOTE: To order parcels or to contact to our Supervisor, Megan Gosling, between 10:00-14:00 or to leave an answer phone message after these hours please ring 07949 442342 This is the Witney and West Oxfordshire Foodbanks new number,  please make a note of it. Many thanks

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