The funding for Oasis Antrim ran out in December 2023. The demand for Antrim Foodbank continues regardless, as will the work we do to help build a #HungerFreeFuture

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Volunteers’ Week at Antrim Foodbank

1st June 2022

In his final engagement as Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Councillor Billy Webb MBE JP officially opened Antrim Foodbank’s new warehouse at Antrim Enterprise off the Greystone Road.  

Antrim Foodbank Project Manager, Fionnuala O’Donnell, said:

I am ever so grateful to our wonderful volunteers, and it’s a challenge sometimes to not keep asking the same people to help when they have already been so generous with their time.

 

We are truly blessed with their tireless work; for collecting and delivering food donations, managing food stocks in the warehouse, packing food parcels, bringing food to our distribution centres, admin support, updating our social media communications, and providing compassionate support to those facing food poverty.

 

Our volunteers demonstrate that they are invaluable and innovative and, without realising it, have an incredible impact on our vital work together within the community of Antrim.

 Stephen Cruise, CEO of Oasis – Caring in Action, the charity behind Antrim Foodbank, added:

As we kick off Volunteers’ Week with the launch of these new premises, I would like to pay tribute to all our volunteers here at Antrim Foodbank, without whom we simply could not function. Well done too, to Fionnuala, a fantastic leader and servant of the food bank, for all of your efforts in helping to build a #HungerFreeFuture for Antrim Town.

Antrim Foodbank warehouse is open for food donations on Fridays between 11 am and 1 pm. Food donations can also be made whenever you are doing the big shop in Tesco Extra Massereene, SPAR Greystone or, in partnership with TACA, on the first Friday of each month in EUROSPAR Templepatrick.

If you would like to donate some time to Antrim Foodbank, please get in touch on [email protected] or 028 9454 8555.

ENDS

Contact:

Fionnuala O’Donnell, Project Manager at Antrim Foodbank, can be reached on [email protected] or 028 9454 8555

Notes to Editor:

Number of emergency food parcels distributed by Antrim Foodbank and by food banks across the Trussell Trust’s network:

1st April 2021 – 31st March 2022
Number of parcels distributed For adults For children Total Percentage change in total number of parcels distributed since 2019-20
Across the Trussell Trust’s UK-wide network 1,341,049 832,109 2,173,158 14%
Antrim Foodbank 2,395 1,947 4,342  102%

For more info, visit antrim.foodbank.org.uk

Antrim Foodbank is part of the Trussell Trust’s network. For UK-wide statistics from across the network, contact [email protected]

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