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Volunteer Week 2025

Volunteers Week is always the first week in June, and every year since we started this Foodbank, we’ve taken the time to mark and celebrate and thank our amazing team of volunteers. At SBFB, our volunteers do some amazing work. Usually, it’s around 3 hours per week, some do a little less, a few do […]

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WE ARE RECRUITING!

SOUTH BELFAST FOODBANK VACANCY: South Belfast Foodbank Full Time Administrative Manager Would you like to play a key role in tackling injustice and poverty? Are you experienced in administration, with the right set of skills to help a busy foodbank? We are recruiting an Administrative Manager to help us in achieving our mission of alleviating food […]

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Tesco Food Collection – Thank You!

How can we start to thank everyone who supported us at our recent Tesco Food Collection.  It is always the most heartwarming experience to see the generosity of  the shoppers at our supporting store, Newtownbreda Tesco, on our food collection days. Even though the shoppers support us amazingly all year round, generously donating in our […]

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Harvest Season 2024

Harvest Collections in full swing Over the last few weeks, we’ve had plenty of Harvest donations from Churches and Schools. I got to attend the very special Harvest Collection at Knockbreda Primary School a few weeks ago. The pupils sang some hymns, said prayers they had written, and there was a Bible story presentation from […]

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South Belfast Foodbank is TEN years old!

The beginning continued…. By Brenda Johnston (SBFB Volunteer Agency Coordinator) Hitting the 10 year mark in October 2024 gives us a chance to look back and share a bit of our beginnings. We continue sharing stories of how the SBFB began life with a take from one of our current volunteers: In May 2014 I […]

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£5000 donation from Visit Belfast and Titanic Exhibition

We were donated a significant amount from a fundraising collaboration between Visit Belfast and the Titanic Belfast Exhibition. Such a large amount like £5000 is such an incredible donation, and helps us to continue the vital work of feeding people in this part of the City. We are so grateful and thankful for this donation, […]

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South Belfast Foodbank is TEN years old!

Over the coming weeks and months, we look back and reflect on the past 10 years, the journey we have been on and where we have ended up. We also explore the future and ask, ‘What’s next?’ We hope to have a few various people add their voice to our story too. Part One – […]

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Love Your Food Show 2024

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 South Belfast. Since April 2023, we’ve helped give food to 7,946 people in our community, and […]

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44th Malone Beavers visit to the Foodbank

On Friday night past (9th Feb) we had a small and excited group of Beavers (including my 7 year old son) join us in the SBFB warehouse for an hour to help us make up some emergency food boxes. All 6 beavers of the 44th Malone Colony were super helpful, and they even brought a […]

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Victoria – our Administrator – has departed!

Around 2 weeks ago we marked a very special day for a very special person: Victoria Logan. She has been on staff at South Belfast Foodbank for over 4 years and had the role of Administrative Manager. She has left to take up an exciting new role in another organisation, so we wanted to take […]

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