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Festive Food Drive – Week 2

At Antrim Foodbank, we always need to plan ahead to ensure we can meet the needs of our community. Last month, we helped feed 142 children in our Town.  That is up 32% from the previous month. Throughout November, we will be running a Festive Food (Bank) Drive.  Each week, we’ll be asking you to consider […]

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Festive Food Drive – Week 1

At Antrim Foodbank, we always need to plan ahead to ensure we can meet the needs of our community. Throughout November, we will be running a Festive Food (Bank) Drive. Each week, we’ll be asking you to consider donating specific items to help us put together hampers for people in crisis in Antrim this Christmas. We’ll […]

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Harvest Thanks

A big #FoodbankFriday thank you to all of the local Churches who donated their Harvest Festival collections to Antrim Foodbank – including one recent delivery which weighing it at 500kg!  What does 500kg look like?  It looks like over 1,000 meals for people in crisis in our Town! If you are doing the big shop […]

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Welcome to Antrim Foodbank

Visiting a food bank for the first time can be a daunting experience.  It needn’t be.  This is what happens when you visit Antrim Foodbank… We work on a referral basis.  Your first step is to get a Foodbank Voucher. You’ll find us on High Street every Friday from 11 am to 1 pm We’re […]

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Thanks NFU!

A big #FoodbankFriday thank you to our friends at NFU Mutual Crumlin with whose help we have been able to buy new A-board signs for our Warehouse and distribution centres at High Street, Parkhall and Muckamore. Antrim Foodbank Manager, Fionnuala O’Donnell, said: This month, we’ve had clients report that administrative delays with free school meals and uniform grants have added to their back-to-school burden.  […]

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♫ To the bright side of the road ♫

Let’s enjoy it while we can Won’t you help me share my load From the dark end of the street To the bright side of the road   Van Morrison, Bright Side of the Road We’re delighted to be back at our home in Oasis Antrim from Friday 21st May 2021! It may not actually […]

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MiS&Ellany

A #FoodbankFriday thank you to Tim Hughes and his team at S&E CareTrade on Greystone Road for their kind donation of a miscellany from our shopping list towards this week’s Antrim Foodbank parcels. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Have you taken the #ReadySteadyAntrim Foodbank Challenge yet? LET’S BUILD A #HUNGERFREEFUTURE TOGETHER If your local business […]

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#ReadySteadyAntrim Foodbank Challenge

What can you serve up using only the ingredients in an Antrim Foodbank parcel?

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Are you doing the big shop this #FoodbankFriday?

We could really be doing with: TINNED SPAGHETTI TINNED VEGETABLES TINNED FISH TINNED CUSTARD TINNED RICE PUDDING JAM HONEY BISCUITS You can now Donate Online too. Thank you for your continued support! Together we can help build a #HungerFreeFuture

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