Donate food
Imagine - if 450 people spent just £1 a week shopping for essential items from this list, our current community needs would be covered!
BankTheFood
The free BankTheFood app provides real-time updates of which items we need.
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More people than ever are being driven to food banks and the sharp increase in people needing help is outstripping food donations.
Your donations are vital to ensure that we can continue to help the people in our community.
What to donate
Valuing the dignity of our foodbank recipients we give them food that is healthy and safe. So this means we are giving them items that are:
- unopened
- undamaged
- have not passed their Best Before or Use By date.
If you're ever unsure about a particular item, you can contact us for more information.
Items we need
As of 28/08/2025
- Adult toothpaste
- Angel delight
- Bags for life
- Baked beans
- Biscuits
- Cat food
- Cereal
- Chocolate
- Cleaning spray
- Coffee
- Cold tinned meat
- Conditioner
- Cooking oil
- Cooking sauce in jars
- Cooking sauce in packets
- Cup-a-soup
- Deodorant
- Dog food
- Hand soap
- Household Cleaner
- Instant coffee
- Jam
- Long-life juice
- Long-life milk
- Men's deodorant
- Multipack crisps/ snacks
- Nappies - size 4
- Nappies - size 5
- Nappies - size 6
- Nappies - size 7
- Noodles
- Pasta
- Pasta packets (microwavable)
- Pasta sauce
- Pies
- Porridge oats
- Razors for shaving
- Rice
- Shampoo
- Shaving foam/gel
- Shower gel
- Snacks (e.g. crisps, cereal bars, etc)
- Sponge puddings
- Spreads
- Squash
- Sweets
- Tea bags
- Tinned carrots
- Tinned chicken
- Tinned curry
- Tinned custard
- Tinned fish
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned ham
- Tinned hot dogs
- Tinned meat
- Tinned mushrooms
- Tinned peas
- Tinned rice pudding
- Tinned soup
- Tinned sweetcorn
- Tinned tomatoes
- Tinned tuna
- Tinned vegetables
- Toilet cleaner
- Toilet roll
- Toothbrushes
- Toothpaste
- Trifle kits
- Washing powder
- Washing up liquid
- Wet wipes
- Women's deodorant
Items we don’t need
As of 28/08/2025
- Baby food
- Bottled water (still)
- Brown sauce
- Crackers
- Incontinence products
- Nappies - size 0
- Nappies - size 1
- Nappies - size 2
- Nappies - size 3
- Powdered milk
- Rice sachets (microwavable)
- Salt
- Sanitary towels
- Tampons
- Tea bags
- Turkey gravy granules
Donation points
You can donate items by leaving them at donation points at the following locations. Your donations will be delivered to us, where we’ll pack them into emergency food parcels.
Find your nearest donation point below.