News
17 Feb 18
Look out for our food collection bins in Holloway Road and Clerkenwell Waitrose
As well as our supermarket drives, because of the urgent need to receive more fooddonations for the increasing number of clients, we now have a permanent collection bins at the Waitrose stores on Holloway Road and Clerkenwell. You don’t need to wait for a supermarket drive to donate food when you go shopping, just look […]
17 Feb 18
Half of children helped by foodbanks over summer holiday months are primary school students
Figures from the Trussell Trust show that in summer 2016, 47% of children who received support from foodbanks in its network were 5-11 years old. In addition, 4,412 more three day emergency food supplies were given to children in July and August 2016 than in the previous two months. Between April 2016 and March 2017, […]
17 Feb 18
Other foodbanks lend their support to Islington
Given the growing number of clients we are supplying with food, we are relying on support from other foodbanks for additional food. This summer we were grateful for food donations from Uttlesford foodbank for: 451.55kg and Slough foodbank for 1145.7kg. Of course, a huge thank you to all the local churches, charities and individuals who […]
17 Feb 18
Good news on the new Foodbank premises at the Roundhouse
Work is moving ahead on the building of the new Highbury Roundhouse, on a site just behind the current premises. As well as being a community centre, this will be the new centre for the Foodbank. First phase of the building work is scheduled to finish this spring, and according to the builders is moving […]
17 Feb 18
Waitrose Holloway Road and Clerkenwell supermarket drives and collection bins
Supermarkets are one of the best sources of food donations for our foodbank. This autumn we had a number of successful supermarket drives, thanks to Reannan, our supermarket drives supremo. Altogether we collected a total of 3357kg, as a result of four drives in both Waitrose and Tesco. While this sounds a large amount of food, […]
17 Feb 18
Gracious donations this winter
The foodbank is very fortunate in receiving donations from local schools, churches, businesses, and, of course, supermarkets. Here are details of some of the organisations that gave donations this autumn Gillespie Primary School As the warehouse team were sorting out donations that people had so generously made, in the run-up to Christmas, we received a […]
17 Feb 18
Foodbank activity in December breaks all records
The foodbank is always frenetic in the run-up to Christmas, but this year, servicing the number of clients and receiving donations was at the highest level we have ever recorded. In client-facing in December we twice exceeded giving out 600kg of food and twice exceeded giving out 700kg in a single shift (the usual is […]
11 Sep 17
House on the Rock church raises 1,410kg of food at PUSH initiative
House on the Rock is a charismatic evangelical Bible-based church, which is ‘a home for all’. All House on the Rock churches globally hold an annual 21-day period of fasting and prayer P.U.S.H. (Pray Until Something Happens), which takes its lead from Isaiah 58, verse 7, which describes a Godly fast, in which you ‘share […]
11 Sep 17
TAP: a new form of charity fundraising raises over £2,700 for Islington Foodbank
Islington Foodbank is extremely grateful to be one of the charities supported by TAP, a fundraising vehicle which has started in Hackney and Islington, that links up small, local charities with donors in their communities. TAP is a new method of fundraising, launched by two enterprising women who used to work in advertising, to raise […]
3 Sep 17
Autumn and winter supermarket drive dates
Here is a list of dates for the supermarket drives at Waitrose over the autumn months: Tuesday October 10, 5pm – 7pm, Waitrose Holloway Road Saturday October 14, 10am – 2pm, Waitrose Holloway Road Monday October 23, 10am to 4pm, Waitrose Clerkenwell Monday December 4, 10am to 4pm, Waitrose Clerkenwell During the supermarket drives, volunteers from the […]