News | North Ayrshire Foodbank

7 Oct 24

Erin Cuthbert teaming up with the Grey Dippers

We were delighted, and grateful, to receive an email yesterday from Erin Cuthbert, our Ambassador, that she is supporting the Grey Dippers heroic and marathon fundraising by putting the appeal onto her social media. If you are interested in contributing to the Grey Dippers success whilst also ensuring food insecurity is reduced visit their donation […]

7 Oct 24

October holidays – free shop at Ardrossan South Larder

The holidays are just around the corner. To assist households with children who will be missing their free school meals we are pleased to offer a free weeks shop at the larder. If you live below the high road (runs past Ardrossan Academy) we would be delighted to offer you this free week. The Ardrossan […]

7 Oct 24

The Harvest is coming in

The Foodbank are grateful to the churches and school who have held, or plan to hold, their Harvest Thanksgiving Services and selected the Foodbank to be the beneficiaries of their members generosity. This is a small selection of the bags of food received from Beith Parish Church. St. Palladium Primary school donated last week as […]

7 Oct 24

Grey dippers – keep supporting

Our heroic team keep going. This is their update: “Morning dip with David Kane and then in to the Beach House Cafe for a coffee. Great start for a Saturday and we are both running the Glasgow half marathon tomorrow so sets us up well for that 🙏🏻👍” They have such amazing capacity, energy and […]

3 Sep 24

Harvest 2024

Thanksgiving Food Drive Flyer-2 (Click the link to see the poster). North Ayrshire Foodbank, in partnership with the Larder network, are seeking the assistance of local school, businesses and churches to bolster our food stocks as we continue to serve people enduring food insecurity on a daily basis. Your Harvest donations will be greatly appreciated. […]

18 Apr 24

Annual figures – thank you for helping so many.

North Ayrshire Foodbank would like to thank all of its supporters for their compassion and generosity. The last few years have not been kind to anybody for multiple reasons. The pandemic, energy crisis, cost of living crisis, and inflation to name but a few. However, despite all of those challenges the Local Authority, individuals, businesses, […]

13 Feb 24

Bank holidays 2024

The Foodbank and Larder programme will be closed on the following dates: March 29th Good Friday April 1st Easter Monday May 6th May bank Holiday May 27th Spring Bank holiday August 6th. Summer Bank holiday December 2nd […]

27 Jan 24

Postcode Lottery gifts local charities funding

The Postcode Lottery today released the good news that not only did 2 households win a share in the £1m street prize (congratulations to the lucky anonymous winners); multiple local charities were given offers of financial gifts ranging from £20-50K. North Ayrshire was offered and has accepted its offer of £50,000. Ironically, the Foodbank was […]

27 Oct 23

Larder support – not for holidays, drugs nor alcohol.

North Ayrshire Foodbank receives a lot of support from the wider community and generous individuals. That includes resources to operate the Larder. It has proven necessary to publish information on three areas of personal activities we do not support people to engage. First: The purpose of the Larder project is to assist households who face […]

14 Aug 23

Kilbirnie Salvation Army – closing as a Foodbank distribution point

A huge thanks goes out to the wonderful volunteers at the Kilbirnie Salvation Army for all they have done these past 7 years to ensure donated food reached those in need in and around Kilbirnie. The changing food provision landscape has led to a refocusing of how best to serve the area and so it […]

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