News | Smethwick Foodbank

31 Mar 18

Homeless or at risk of losing your home

Our best advice would be to contact Sandwell Council as soon as possible. The service is free and confidential and you don’t have to be a Sandwell resident to get help and advice. During office hours Monday to Friday you can go along to the Local office nearest to you. For further full information about […]

1 May 17

Trussell Trust partnership with Christians against Poverty

We are really pleased to let you know that The Trussell Trust and CAP have now signed a national agreement to encourage cross-referral and map local centres. Find out more about Oldbury Debt Centre based at Kings Community Centre Find our more about Sandwell Release Group based at Raglan Road Church

10 Oct 16

The Importance of Milk

Knowing how important milk is to young children, every Tuesday father-of-one and local businessman Aman quietly buys fresh milk and drops it into our foodbank session #FoodbankHero

30 Aug 16

Foodbank Heroes

This cheeky pair have been friends for 50 years. Together they’ve been Girlguiding leaders, members of Smethwick Baptist Church and now help out at Smethwick Foodbank every fortnight. Margaret’s one of our longest-standing volunteers and helped set up the foodbank five years ago, with Betty joining us three years ago. “You do it to […]

26 Jul 16

Warehouse Volunteers Needed

This role involves receiving food donations, weighing the food for our records, dating it and putting it in cupboards. You will also be given completed food vouchers and a shopping list to use to select the food for the person. Once the food has been picked it needs to be bagged and weighed, then given […]

25 Jul 16

Meeting and Greeting Volunteers Needed

This role requires you to welcome the person coming into the foodbank, and to then sit with them to complete an information sheet regarding their food voucher. This sheet is then passed to the warehouse staff to enable them to choose the food required for that person. As we now provide fuel vouchers we would […]

23 Dec 15

6 Unexpected Things Foodbanks Need

A visit to the food bank isn’t exactly a traditional Christmas activity, but one UK charity is asking for a little extra help this month, when demand is at its highest and families are choosing between eating and heating.

8 Dec 15

Why Would a Mum Doing a Business Degree Find Herself Begging on the Streets This Winter?

With Christmas approaching, Michele from Brent Foodbank shares how she’s helping to make the festive season special for those struggling. “For the past few days I haven’t been to the street begging for money to buy food for me and my baby…” This was what a mother at Brent Foodbank told us recently. She was […]

1 Dec 15

Emergency Budget gets the food poverty test

David McAuley, Chief Executive of The Trussell Trust said: “We have two simple tests for the budget being delivered today.  Firstly, what does it do to reduce the number of people in poverty and hunger?  Secondly, what does it do to ensure the Government is supporting the work of charities and social enterprise in taking […]

21 Oct 15

Listening to the lives behind the foodbank statistics

MPs and peers discussed tackling UK poverty. The Trussell Trust, along with dozens of representatives from its UK network of foodbanks, were in parliament yesterday speaking with MPs and Peers about the work they do to combat hunger and poverty. Hosting the event, Chris White MP commended the varied work of the Trussell Trust’s foodbanks, […]

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