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News from the Foodbank

HAYES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: Registered Charity 1198866

Account details (Co-op Bank):

Hayes Community Foodbank Kent; 08-92-99; 67307296.


If you need to contact the foodbank regarding a delivery request please contact –

Mob – 07719 952 047 but these messages are only picked up on a Friday

Or email hayescommunityfoodbank@gmail.com

Support for the Foodbank comes in many and varied forms and for all of it we are hugely grateful.

On the 13th June we are holding a fun quiz night to raise funds. Tickets are available via  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quiz-night-for-hayes-community-foodbank. If you can’t get a team together don’t worry - we can place individuals and  folk amongst other groups. A fund evening raising awareness and funds.

 

When the Foodbank started in the May of 2020 – the Covid years -  we were blessed with lots of physical donations – folk turning up at the church doors with bags of tins and groceries. Over the last couple of years physical donations have decreased but we are still very blessed with the generous financial donations. This money enables us to purchase staple foods such as cereals, tinned tomatoes, long life milk which we give out to the families each week. It is these gifts, both physical and financial, that keep the Foodbank going. Thank you.

 

Volunteers – we have a strong team of volunteers on both Thursday afternoon and Friday morning but that’s not to say we don’t need more. Holiday times need extra cover; childminding duties need cover; ailments and infirmities need cover. All volunteers are welcome and would be given training and support in their role. Without the volunteers the Foodbank wouldn’t run. ALL help is gratefully received. Thank you.

 

Plastic bags – as I said a couple of months ago we always need plastic bags. If you have food delivered to you and it all arrives in plastic bags – please could we have those bags. If you go to the shops and they put your purchases in a paper bag – please may we have those too. Because we deliver food to our families we do use up a lot of bags – it is an issue that we are reviewing - but in the meantime if you have spare bags please could we have them. Thank you.

 

 

The constant stream of prayers and support we receive from the local community helps and bolsters our work. The Foodbank is Christ’s work in action in our Hayes community. Your prayers sustain and lift us when there has been a difficult situation with one of our families; not many vegetables from Fareshare; very little bread from the bakers. One week may be bountiful, the next poor but because we know that your love and support is behind us it helps us to carry on. Thank you.

 

And finally Christine found the article below which I think is brilliant and if you see a deer in Hayes please give me a ring and I’ll be down with my crossbow!                                  Teresa and the team

 

Imaginative help for (some) Food Banks


You may have heard that the number of wild deer in the UK has shot up in recent years (up by about 500,000 since the pandemic) and they are threatening crops and the biodiversity of woodlands. They therefore need to be culled (some readers may not like this bit, I know). In one location forest rangers were paid to shoot an increased number of deer, and the result was – plentiful venison for the local Food Bank! The ancient woodland was saved, the destination of the meat was very popular with the rangers, and the whole exercise has been regarded as a great success, to be rolled out in other suitable places across the country. An additional bonus in this case was the fact that the forest was Ashdown Forest, home of Winnie the Pooh. We may not be near a forest, but deer are occasionally seen on Hayes Common nowadays…...


FOOD BANK QUIZ NIGHT!!

 The quiz raising funds for the Foodbank will be held on  

 Friday 13th June at HFC from 7pm – 10pm. 

 

Please note you need to book in advance.

Tickets available through Eventbrite –

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quiz-night-for-hayes-community-foodbank