Donate food
Support us by donating food and other essentials.
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More people than ever are being driven to food banks and the sharp increase in people needing help is outstripping food donations.
Your donations are vital to ensure that we can continue to help the people in our community.
What to donate
Items we need
Please note: we do not take bottled water or alcohol, bleach, razors or items with a short (within 3 months) "use before" date.
- Baked beans
- Biscuits
- Cereal
- Cleaning spray
- Coffee
- Household Cleaner
- Long-life milk
- Pasta sauce
- Rice
- Squash
- Tinned custard
- Tinned fish
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned meat
- Tinned rice pudding
- Tinned soup
- Tinned spaghetti
- Tinned tomatoes
- Tinned vegetables
- Toilet roll
- Toiletries
- Washing powder
Warehouse donations
If you have a larger food donation we can make an appointment to receive it at our warehouse. Please contact us to arrange this or for any other question you have about donating food.
Donation points
You can donate items leaving them at donation points at the following locations. Your donations will be delivered to us, where we’ll pack them into emergency food parcels.
Tesco adds a cash value donation to every kilogram of food donated in their Ely and March stores.
Find your nearest supermarket donation point below.