News | Witney Foodbank

3 Mar 25

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.

23 Jan 25

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.

20 Dec 24

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 […]

20 Dec 24

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.

15 Dec 24

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.

25 Sep 24

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 […]

16 May 24

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 […]

3 Mar 21

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

15 Feb 21

Yoga challenge benefits Witney Foodbank

Sara and Jayne ( @yogawithsaraoxfordshire) along with their lovely members, age range 30-78, completed a Sun Salutation challenge during January with the aim of keeping everyone focused on moving consistently each and every day. Sun Salutations are a Yoga-based set pattern of movements, ideally carried out at dawn in the warmth of India – each round […]

4 Feb 21

Fund raising run from Banbury to Witney

David Parris has decided to raise awareness and hopefully raise a little bit of money, for people that are struggling through the current crisis. His challenge is to run from Banbury to Witney which is 28 miles, on the 1st March. He only started running in March 2020 around the time that the first lockdown […]

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