News
7 Sep 17
Doosan Babcock’s amazing donation
The Doosan Babcock teams at Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 have been working together to collect food for Morecambe Bay Foodbank and on Thursday, September 7th they donated an astonishing 500kg of food! It’s an incredible amount of stock for us and their hard work and contribution are just fantastic! 500kg of food equates to […]
5 Sep 17
Our new home
We’ve had a great time settling into our new home at West End Community Centre in Morecambe over the past few weeks. We now have much more space for storing our food and for sorting through all the donations that come in to us. Our volunteers have been absolutely fantastic in helping us move and […]
19 Jul 17
Our new fundraising appeal
Here at Morecambe Bay Foodbank, we are currently appealing for funds to help us with our BIG MOVE! It’s cost us money to move location – from needing new computers to moving our phone and internet and buying some new furniture – it all adds up. Our fantastic supporters Urban Attic have launched […]
4 Jul 17
Morecambe Bay Foodbank Moves Home!
The Morecambe Bay Foodbank is moving! Since starting to operate from a cupboard in the GYM Church on Green Street in Morecambe, the organisation has grown and after five years we’ve taken over nearly half the church, so it’s time for us to move. We are moving into the first floor of the West End […]
12 Jun 17
Father’s Day Appeal
Father’s Day Appeal for local dads facing crisis: Morecambe Bay Foodbank calls for vital donations of men’s toiletry & shaving products Father’s Day can be a difficult time for men facing crisis, especially dads who are unable to provide food for their families or afford the basic toiletry products many of us take for granted. […]
23 May 17
Thank you!
Amazing places, based on the Fylde have donated a huge amount of toiletries and nappies to us this week – many, many thanks go to them for their generosity! These items will help to keep our boxes stocked for a few weeks which is brilliant as demand for our services is very high at the […]
11 May 17
Why don’t we ask for fresh food?
Here at Morecambe Bay Foodbank we have quite a specific list of things that we ask people to donate to us – typical items are things like: Pasta Sauce Instant Mash Tinned Fruit Tinned Potatoes Long Life Milk Long Life Fruit Juice Steamed Puddings The reasons that we ask for these things is because the […]
11 May 17
What is a Kettle Box?
Here at the Morecambe Bay Foodbank we have many people who come to us who, for whatever reason, don’t have any cooking facilities. That means that they may only have a kettle with which to prepare food and so we design some of our boxes with these people in mind. We’ve made two videos about […]
26 Apr 17
Morecambe Bay Foodbank releases statistics for 2016 / 17
Morecambe Bay Food Bank releases annual statistics New figures show 3841 emergency food supplies given to local people by Morecambe Bay Foodbank in last year 3841 three day emergency food supplies given to local people in crisis by Morecambe Bay Foodbank in 2016-17 – over 1295 went to children Latest statistics published by […]
5 Apr 17
Amazing support from Churches in the area this Easter
We have been really lucky to have the support of Boris Seagal, a local film maker who has taken the time to make some short films about the Foodbank. The recent film that Boris has made is about how local churches in the Morecambe area have been supporting the Foodbank this Easter and we are […]