thanks | Antrim Foodbank

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 […]

14 Sep 23

National Lottery players support Antrim Foodbank

Antrim Foodbank volunteers at Castle Mall

Antrim Foodbank, a project of Oasis Antrim, is today celebrating after being awarded National Lottery funding to help support its work to build a hunger free future. The project, based at the Oasis Antrim Community Support Hub on High Street, Antrim, has been running since 2015 and is staffed by local volunteers who run five […]

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 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 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 […]

7 Jan 22

Tom’s 3km a day for Antrim Foodbank

Christmas is supposed to be a season for joy and celebration – but for millions of families, it is one of the toughest times of the year as they struggle to put food on the table and heat their homes. One local boy took it upon himself to make a difference. Tom Cawley, a P7 […]

24 Nov 21

Thank you, Antrim!

From Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 November, Tesco customers at Tesco Extra Massereene were greeted on their way into store with our Reverse Advent Calendar and encouraged to pick up food items as they shop to drop in special donation trollies on the way out. Thank you, Antrim, for rising to the challenge and donating an […]

22 Oct 21

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 […]

24 Sep 21

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. […]

7 May 21

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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