Uncategorised | Dundee and Angus Foodbank

25 Oct 18

Caltech Donate New Van

Back in June, our Foodbank van broke down back in June. Local firm Caltech Lifts loaned us one of their vans until we could secure a replacement. They have now offered us a van to keep permanently. As if this wasn’t good enough, they contacted MMautoservice who serviced the van and agreed to undertake all future services and MOTs […]

9 Oct 18

DUSA announces Dundee Foodbank as Charity Partner

We are delighted to hear that Dundee Foodbank have been announced as the Charity Partner of the year for the Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA). Every year they run a series of dedicated fundraisers and in the past have helped organisations such as the Anthony Nolan Trust, the Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Children […]

5 Oct 18

Foodbank Month: Overgate Shopping Centre

During the month of October, the Overgate Shopping Centre will be running a Foodbank month in support of Dundee, Angus and Fife Foodbanks. They will be accepting donations of non-perishable food and toiletries at their customer service desk. In particular we are low on; jars of pasta sauce tinned fruit tinned vegetables packets of biscuits […]

2 Aug 18

Dates for your diary: Supermarket Collections

We’ve managed to finalise our dates for our supermarket collections for the remainder of the year. Our next one is this coming Saturday 4th August at Tesco Riverside from 10am- 4pm. Hope to see you there! Saturday 4th August – Tesco Riverside 10am-4pm Friday 31st August and Saturday 1st September – Asda Kirkton and Asda Milton […]

30 Jul 18

Tesco Riverside Collection: Saturday 4th August 2018

As the summer months and school holidays, in particular, continue to put a strain on our stock levels, we’ve arranged another supermarket collection for this Saturday 4th August. We’ll be collecting at Tesco Riverside from 10am-4pm. If you’re planning a visit here this Saturday, will you consider making a small donation to the Foodbank if […]

20 Jun 18

New Referral System as of Monday 2nd July 2018

This is a reminder that as of Monday 2nd July 2018, Dundee Foodbank will be operating a new referral procedure. At present, referrals are processed via telephone. However, this will be discontinued and will be replaced with the ‘Red Voucher System.’ We are in the process of contacting all of our referring partners to issue them […]

7 Jun 18

Help needed for a new van

Our Foodbank van has decided that it’s done enough mileage and is out of operation. It is very likely that we will have to secure ourselves a new van. Our current van was very kindly donated to us by GA Engineering and it has made such a difference to us. We use it for uplifting […]

16 May 18

New Permanent Collection Points: Asda Kirkton and Asda Milton

As part of a new partnership between The Trussell Trust and Asda, we are delighted to announce the establishment of two new permanent collection points at Asda Kirkton and Asda Milton. We would like to extend a big thank you to each store’s Community Champion for their efforts in setting these up. Having these additional […]

4 Apr 18

Over half a tonne collected at Asda Collection

We would like to extend a big thank you to all of you who donated at our collection at Asda Kirkton on Good Friday. Despite the quite awful weather condition – including sleet, snow and howling gales – we were still able to take in over half a tonne of donations with 525kg being collected. […]

26 Mar 18

Big Success at Ice Hockey Collection

Whilst the ice hockey result was not the one we were hoping for, Dundee Foodbank certainly had a night to remember at the ice hockey. We managed to collect 395.32kg of food and £289.89 in donations at our collection day at the Ice Arena. Thank you so much to everyone that donated. A big thank […]

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