News
29 Oct 18
The 2018 Reverse Advent Calendar is here!
A Reverse Advent Calendar is when you (and hopefully your friends, families or colleagues) get a box and rather than taking something out of a calendar each day, you put something in! Our Reverse Advent Calendar is ready for 2018 and we hope that as many people across the area will join in with us […]
23 Oct 18
Tales from the Listeners
Our service is confidential and as such, we don’t ask our clients to speak about their experiences to the press or public so that we can keep their details private. However, we do want to be able to describe the kinds of people who come to see us and the situations that they find themselves […]
27 Sep 18
Morecambe Bay Foodbank contributes to the New York Times
We were approached by the New York Times a few months ago and asked if we would be willing to speak to them about child poverty in the North West of England. As trustees, our job is to feed people in crisis and also to communicate with the public about what causes people to come […]
5 Sep 18
Reflections on summer
From our Foodbank Manager, Annette: I recently had a time away from the Foodbank. I found it hard. Harder than living day-to-day in a community of people who struggle to keep their heads above water and whose survival techniques include food clubs as armbands and local support agencies as lifeguards.During my time away I watched […]
15 Aug 18
We are very short of food at the moment
We are extremely low on food at the moment and have just launched an appeal for donations. Can you help? We have seen a big rise in demand for our services over the past year, leading to the Foodbank almost running out of food. Key items such as pasta sauce, soup, tea, rice pudding, tinned […]
21 Jul 18
Morecambe Bay Foodbank launches its summer appeal to combat Holiday Hunger
Today we have launched our summer appeal to combat Holiday Hunger. Many families that we work with struggle to feed their families during the school holidays often because they rely on free school meals during the day time to budget for food. This summer we have launched a fundraising campaign to encourage people to text […]
21 Jul 18
The Uniform Project launches its summer appeal
The school year is ending and so the Uniform Project, run by the Morecambe Bay Foodbank is gearing up for a big uniform drive over the summer holidays to collect and re-distribute uniform to children in need of it before the new school year in September. The Uniform Project is working in partnership with Lancaster […]
15 Jun 18
The government must take action to fix these unacceptable problems with Universal Credit
You may have seen items in the news today about Universal Credit. Here at Morecambe Bay Foodbank we have seen a massive increase in the numbers of people needing to use our service and the vast majority of these have been to do with the rollout of Universal Credit in the Lancaster district. Along with Citizens Advice North […]
7 May 18
The foodbank now accepting donations via JustGiving
The Morecambe Bay Foodbank can now accept online donations via the JustGiving website. If you would like to donate, click the below button: You can donate as much or as little as you are able to, and the process should be very easy.
25 Apr 18
The Trussel Trust release first foodbank-led report into Universal Credit
The Trussel Trust has released the first foodbank-led qualitative survey, looking at the experience of people on Universal Credit (UC). The report, titled Left Behind: Is Universal Credit Truly Universal?, was released as part of their End of Year Stats and you can read it at https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/research-advocacy/universal-credit-and-foodbank-use/. The analysis in the report is based on […]