Update from friends at East Hunsbury Primary School about their new Community Foodbank

During lockdown we realised some families within our school community needed additional support for various reasons i.e made redundant, lost their jobs, were self-employed but didn’t qualify for any government support etc. As a school we decided to help these families by providing them with food parcels. The food was all donated by members of staff at the school. After lockdown we saw that these families still needed this support in fact, we realised that more needed the same, so we continued to help.

Now with the cost-of-living crisis we are supporting even more families so decided to set up the EHPS community foodbank. The foodbank is here to help support the families of East Hunsbury who may find they are struggling. We are not a weekly foodbank, but more of a pop-up foodbank.

Food parcels are available once every month, this will be the 3rd Friday of each month to offer families a helping hand before payday or between benefit payments.

So who can access the foodbank?

Anyone living in East Hunsbury. It might be a family that needs the support as a one off, maybe they’ve been hit with a high energy bill that month or some other unexpected expense has come up. Alternatively, it might be the support needs to be a little longer term, that’s also fine.

The foodbank does work on a referral basis so if families have children at any of the schools in East Hunsbury, they can ask the school welfare teams to make a referral to the foodbank, foodbank@easthunsburyprimary.org

How can I help?

If you would like to donate any items to the foodbank this can done at one of our collection points. East Hunsbury Primary School (outside the main office) or East Hunsbury Library, where there is also a collection box.

Donations can also be made online via our just Giving page www.justgiving.com/campaign/ EHPScommunityfoodbank

Alternatively, they can get in touch with the Parish council who can make a referral.

We have been extremely lucky and are grateful to the East Hunsbury Parish Council who have supported us and helped fund this initiative.