Items currently needed for Food Parcels:
Long life Fruit Juice, Tinned meat (not Fray Bentos Pies), Tinned Fish
This list is updated via information from the St. Neots Foodbank website
Essentials often needed (as listed by The Trussell Trust):
Long life fruit juice, Fruit squash, Tinned Soup, Tinned meat, Tinned fruit, Tinned ready meals, Tinned veg (sweetcorn, peas, carrots) Tinned tomatoes, Biscuits, sweet snacks (choc biscuit bars)
Drop-Off Points:
Tesco Extra – in the foyer near the exit (Please only donate food bought in the store)
_Tesco Express Eaton Socon – near exit (Please only donate food bought in the store)
Co-op Eaton Socon – near exit
Waitrose – near exit
Co-op Little Paxton – near door
Yorkshire Building Society (High Str.) – near exit
If you don’t shop at the above, please bring to church and Andrea will make sure it gets to the warehouse.
We support the St Neots Foodbank alongside other churches in St. Neots. The following distribution centres are open at these times:
Monday 5.30pm – 6.30pm | St. Mary’s Eaton Socon, Great North Road, Eaton Socon, St Neots PE19 8EJ
Tuesday 10am – 12 noon | United Reformed Church, High Street, St Neots PE19 1BN
Thursday 4pm – 6pm | Berkley Street Methodist Church, Eynesbury, St Neots PE19 2NB
Friday 10am – 12 noon | St. Mary’s Eaton Socon, Great North Road, Eaton Socon, St Neots PE19 8EJ
If you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Helen at volunteers@stneots.foodbank.org.uk
The foodbank runs on a voucher referral system.
If you need a voucher because you do not have money to buy food you should contact one of our voucher holders either in person or by phone. These include housing associations, Citizens Advice, health visitors, and CGL. If you have children, you may also contact their school, or a children’s centre.
If you are currently having trouble getting a voucher you should ring (01480 475426) or email the Foodbank on info@st neots.foodbank.org.uk to give them your details, including phone number, and they will be able to help.
Here is a little bit of information about the foodbank, but you can also visit the St Neots Foodbank website, and you can also find them on Instagram @stneotsfoodbankofficial.
The foodbank‘s main objective is the prevention and relief of poverty in St Neots and the surrounding area, particularly but not exclusively by providing emergency food supplies to individuals and families in need.
While the provision of food to those in need as a crisis intervention is an important part of our mission, we also aim to ‘signpost’ individuals to other organisations who can help to address the underlying causes of the crisis.
St Neots Foodbank has been created as a collaborative action between ten St Neots churches working under the auspices of the Trussell Trust, the national Foodbank network. While the governance of the Foodbank is provided by the churches, it is fully inclusive and is a resource run by the community for the community, providing assistance to people of all backgrounds and all faiths or none who are found to be in genuine need.
