Thanks | Antrim Foodbank

21 Mar 24

Love Your Food Show 2024

We are delighted that Trussell Trust is the charity partner for Love Your Food Show 2024. Thank you for your interest in supporting our food bank, which works with people experiencing financial hardship in Antrim. Since April 2023, we’ve given out 5,467 food parcels to people in our community, and the need is increasing. Would you […]

13 Oct 23

Harvest thanks

Rev Colin McDowell, Brian and Nancy Bonar

A big #FoodbankFriday thank you to all of our local Churches for your recent Harvest donations to Antrim Foodbank. Rev Colin McDowell, Brian and Nancy Bonar from High Street Presbyterian Church recently delivered theirs to our warehouse at Antrim Enterprise. If you are doing the big shop, please remember that your donations are still essential […]

17 Aug 23

Thank you, Sarah!

Thank you, Sarah! Local woman, Sarah McKibbin, recently won a £100 SPAR voucher in store at SPAR Greystone which she kindly donated to Antrim Foodbank. Pictured with Sarah are Diane Camlin – SPAR Greystone – and Stephen Brown – Antrim Foodbank. Together, we can help build a #HungerFreeFuture

25 Jul 23

Reaping what we’ve sowed!

In the springtime, we were sowing the seeds with our Tesco Community Grant. This summer we are reaping the benefits! Claire de Silva, Tesco’s Head of Community, said: Tesco Community Grants help support local good causes like Antrim Foodbank and especially those projects supporting young people, those providing food, and local causes close to […]

6 Jun 23

Volunteers’ Week at Antrim Castle

Volunteers from Antrim Foodbank celebrate Volunteer's Week with a picnic in Antrim Castle Gardens

This Volunteers’ Week (1st – 7th June), our Project Manager, Fionnuala O’Donnell, led the celebration of the people who give up their time to help make Antrim Foodbank work: our volunteers! At a picnic in the blistering sunshine of Antrim Castle Gardens, Fionnuala said: Happy Volunteers Week! You are the driving force of Antrim Foodbank […]

10 May 23

Sowing the seeds

Last autumn, we were awarded a Tesco Community Grant to help us grow our own fresh fruit and vegetables. Antrim Foodbank Project Manager, Fionnuala O’Donnell, said: For Antrim Foodbank, this will allow us to provide extra help to those attending the food bank and encourage families to eat more fruit and vegetables, impacting their overall health and […]

25 Jan 23

2022 in Review

Last year was a busy time for Antrim Foodbank We moved into new warehouse premises, opened a fifth distribution centre and set up a two-year funded partnership with Community Advice offering food bank clients the opportunity to discuss benefits and income maximisation at three of our centres. This is a significant step in providing essential help and […]

1 Oct 22

Shopping List, October 2022

If you are doing the big shop is Tesco Extra Massereene this week, we could be doing with: Tinned Soup Biscuits Tinned Fruit Tinned Veg Tinned Meat Thank you. Together, we can help build a #HungerFreeFuture

17 Jun 22

Thank you, New Horizons!

We were pleased to welcome our friends from AMH New Horizons to the Antrim Foodbank Warehouse recently. They brought with them donations of food and stayed on to donate their time as well. Could you donate some time to help build a #HungerFreeFuture? The Tesco Summer Food Collection takes place in Tesco Extra Massereene from 30th June […]

1 Jun 22

Volunteers’ Week at Antrim Foodbank

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 […]

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