Lewes Food Banks Summer Collection

Saturday 20 July our Lewes Food Banks Summer collection outside Aldi, Tesco, Waitrose.

All day collecting - but nobody does more than a single one hour 'shift'.

According to the House of Commons Library last summer 4.7 million in our country were living in a state of food poverty: that includes 12% of all children dependent on food banks to eat. When ths summer's figures are reported they will almost certainly be worse. Food Banks are growing, wouldn't it be better if they were hardly needed at all? To be a last resort, a safety net for the tiny number who were truly destitute. Those numbers are no longer 'tiny.' Between April 2023 to March 2024 The Trussell Trust, the food banks charity, had to distribute 1.1 million emergency food parcels to children so they could eat.

Of course we cannot reverse food poverty on this scale by one collection, however big, but when demand for Lewes food banks soars over the summer months we can help ensure no child in our community goes hungry.

Through the day our collectors will provide shoppers with a shopping list of food items. Our request to shoppers is to add just one additional purchase from our list to their shop and donate to the stall we'll have outside the stores. Added together this amounts to one huge total.

Please register to collect for an hour on Saturday 20th July. Once registered we'll then be in touch with a rota. Click the 'get tickets' button to volunteer.

If you can't help please donate every pound donated will be used to fund the items Lewes Food Banks have told us they need thos summer in the greatest number. Click the 'get tickets' button and choose 'donation' we'll then combine these items donors have helped pay for with our collection.

The all-day collection is distributed direct to the three Lewes food banks: Fitzjohns, Landport, Malling plus the Lewes Community Fridge and Ringmer Village food bank too.

Host or Publisher All day Lewes supermarket food bank collections