North Cotswold Foodbank
The Trussell Trust North Cotswold Foodbank is part of a national network of foodbanks across the UK run by the Trussell Trust.
The Trussell Trust is an anti-poverty charity founded on Christian principles. In this, the charity is guided by our values to be passionate, compassionate, accountable, innovative and empowering.
Collection points
St Michael's Church – Donations can be left in the Foodbank collection box in the porch.
Church Office, St Michael’s Centre, School Road, GL52 8BA – any weekday morning
Bishop's Cleeve Parish Council Offices, Church Road, GL52 8LR – between 9am and 3pm Monday – Thursday and 10am – 3pm on Fridays.
Click the button below to be taken to the Trussell Trust's Donate Food website, for the latest items needed at the Foodbank.
Donate money to the Foodbank
Bishop's Cleeve Foodbank is run by local people for local people – we rely on the community’s support to ensure we can continue to stop people going hungry.
Can you invest in the future of our project and help us provide much needed support to people in crisis in our community?
Volunteer at the Foodbank
Volunteers are the life blood of foodbanks. Your skills could be just what we need.
Volunteers are the driving force behind our foodbank, helping us to get emergency food to people in crisis. We want you to enjoy volunteering and there are several ways you can get involved.
Find us
The Bishop's Cleeve Foodbank
St Michael’s Centre
Church Road
Bishop's Cleeve, GL52 8BA
Open every Friday from 9.30am – 11.15am.
About us
The North Cotswold Foodbank project was founded in 2011 in local churches and community groups working together towards stopping hunger in our local area. The Bishop’s Cleeve outlet opened in 2014 and there are now 6 outlets in the Cotswolds.
Every day, people in Bishop's Cleeve go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected bill on a low income. North Cotswold F oodbank provides a minimum of three days’ emergency food and support to local people experiencing crisis.
The Foodbank relies on the support of the local community through volunteering, food donations and fundraising. Almost all food is donated by the community through churches, schools, businesses and supermarket collection days.
Clients are referred to the service by frontline care professionals such as social workers, debt advisors, medical professionals and teachers, who identify people in need and give them a voucher they can exchange for a food parcel containing nutritionally balanced food, meat and fruit and vegetable vouchers, and often toiletries, household cleaning items and nappies.
Bishop's Cleeve Foodbank is run by a team of volunteers who give up their time to sort the food that has been donated, make up food parcels and ensure that food is received by those who need it most.
More information about North Cotswold Foodbank can be found at northcotswold.foodbank.org.uk
Also read:
gloucester.anglican.org/foodbanks-have-become-an-accepted-part-of-society-and-that-is-wrong
