News
27 Nov 19
Reverse Advent Calendar
We will be starting a reverse advent calendar on the 1st of December. The idea is that every day you place the food items stated on the calendar into a box or bag and then at the end of the month all the food is donated to the foodbank. If you would like to print […]
9 Oct 19
Asda Green Tokens
GREAT NEWS!!! ??? We have been successful in becoming a Green Token Charity at Asda Superstore, Ashton. When you do your shopping in Asda make sure you ask for a green token at the till. Take the token to the Community Board and place it into the slot for Tameside East Foodbank to support us. The charity with […]
11 Jun 19
Annual report summary 2018
As a registered charity we submit an annual report to the charities commision. A summary of this can be found below. ANNUAL REPORT 2018
25 Apr 19
Our busiest year to date
Between April 2018 and March 2019 Tameside East Foodbank has given out 4755 emergency food parcels. 2977 of these went to adults whilst the remaining 1778 went to children. We have seen a 11% increase on the previous year. As such, EVERY DONATION helps towards us providing food for those in crisis. Thank you for […]
12 Jul 18
Tameside Bags of Help
If you’re shopping in Tesco please can you take a minute to vote for us. Many thanks!
11 Jul 18
Low Stock Alert
Our stocks are running low for the following items: Tinned Rice Pudding Tinned Sponge Pudding Tinned Custard Tinned Fish Coffee If you are able to help items can be placed in our “Drop Boxes” located at Tesco’s, Stalybridge and Morrison’s, Dukinfield. We can only accept in date and unopened packages! Thanking you in anticipation […]
12 Jun 18
Tesco Bags of Help
Tameside East Foodbank is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects. Three groups in every Tesco […]
12 Apr 18
Low Stock Alert
Our stocks are running low for the following items: Tinned Fruit Tinned Tomatoes Tinned Spaghetti Tinned Rice Pudding Tinned Fish Long Life Milk Cereals Shampoo Hand Soap Washing Up Liquid If you are able to help items can be placed in our “Drop Boxes” located at Tesco’s, Stalybridge and Morrison’s, Dukinfield. We can only […]
29 Mar 18
The Year in Brief – Excerpts from our Annual Report 2017.
Tameside East Foodbank has now been in operation since December 2012 and works as a partnership of our local churches: Holy Trinity Church, Stalybridge, St John’s Church, Dukinfield and New Life Church, Ashton under Lyne. We continue to work in partnership with the Trussell Trust and follow their operational procedures. The foodbank provides 3 days […]
21 Feb 18
Carrier Bags!
We’re running out of carrier bags; can you help? You can drop them in to any of our centres; St Matthews, Stalybridge Mon11:00 – 13:00 Tue11:00 – 13:00 New Life Church, Ashton-under-Lyne Thu13:00 – 15:00 St. John’s Church Centre, Dukinfield Fri12:00 – 14:00 Sat10:00 – 12:00