News | South Belfast

11 Sep 23

Guarantee Essentials Campaign

I am Bruce, Project Manager for the South Belfast Food bank. I mobilise almost 100 volunteers to collect, sort and process food and then organise the distribution point in inner South Belfast. Hunger in our communities is growing at such an alarming rate, it really scares me. We recently had to add an additional evening […]

1 Aug 23

Tesco Food Collection – Thank You!

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

3 Feb 23

Our Move is Complete!

We are happy to say our move to our new premises of 119 University Street is complete. Our guests have been welcomed to our new foodbank supermarket rooms where they can select their own food and receive 1:1 support from trained volunteers at our various weekly sessions. Our office there is now also fully operational. […]

3 Feb 23

A Big Thank You

We want to say a big thank you to the partner agencies that kept a supply of Emergency Foodboxes over our period of Christmas closure and during our move to our new premises. This ensured those in need could access emergency food. Thank You Alliance Party (South Belfast) Paula Bradshaw’s Office Belvoir Parish Church City […]

3 Jan 23

January 2023 Emergency Foodboxes

Due to moving premises we have to pause our face to face sessions until the week of 16th January. If you need food during this time please contact one of the following who are keeping a supply of Emergency Foodboxes for us. Belvoir Parish Church Contact Carson on 07742 753146 Monday to Friday 10am […]

16 Dec 22

Emergency Foodboxes

Emergency Foodboxes If you need food while the foodbank is closed for Christmas 23rd December – 3rd January there are a few places keeping Emergency Foodboxes. Contact one of the below Belvoir Parish Church Contact Carson on 07742 753146 23rd December 5pm-10pm (17:00 -22:00) 26th-30th December 5pm-10pm (17:00 -22:00) 2nd January 5pm-10pm (17:00 -22:00) City Church Neto on 07982 […]

3 Nov 22

Reverse Advent Christmas Appeal 2022

Reverse Advent Christmas Appeal 2022 Please consider supporting us this Christmas during our reverse advent appeal. Would you consider donating one of each of the following items to us this Christmas season? Collect these items and then donate them to us in any of the following ways… 1. If you purchase your shopping at Tesco […]

27 Jul 22

New Day of Face-to-Face sessions coming soon

In August 2022 – we are starting a third full day of face to face appointments. We will begin with the afternoon session first (1pm-4pm), and once that is up and running, we will be starting the morning session (10am-1pm). We also aim to offer an after work session (4pm-7pm) and also an evening session […]

18 Jul 22

Our volunteer raised money by walking the Camino!

A volunteer of ours called Rosemary very kindly decided to raise money for our foodbank by walking over 100KM in Spain on the famous Camino trail. She hoped to walk the very last section of the route called the Camino de Santiago – and to do this in 1 week. Above is a picture of […]

14 Jul 22

Tesco Summer Collection 2022 – Over 2 tonnes collected!

What a successful Summer Tesco Collection! For 3 days we were based at Tesco Newtownbreda, and had a huge number of volunteers helping us in a variety of ways, including speaking to customers, pre-packing some bags of shopping and sorting donations. We collected 2133 KG -which works out to being 5,081 meals for people in […]

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