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17 Feb 18
Look out for our food collection bins in Holloway Road and Clerkenwell Waitrose
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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
Waitrose Holloway Road and Clerkenwell supermarket drives and collection bins
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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, […]
3 Sep 17
Autumn and winter supermarket drive dates
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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 […]
14 Jun 17
Summer supermarket drive dates
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Here is a list of dates for the supermarket drives at Waitrose over the summer months: Mon July 3, 10am – 4pm,Waitrose Clerkenwell Weds July 5, 5pm – 7pm, Waitrose Holloway Road Sat July 8, 10am – 2pm, Waitrose Holloway Road Sat August 5, 10am – 4pm, Waitrose Clerkenwell During the supermarket drives, volunteers from the […]
1 May 17
April supermarket drive raises 942kg of food
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The last supermarket drive for Islington Foodbank at Waitrose, Holloway Road raised 942kg of food. The foodbank is in urgent need of extra donations, with foodbank usage up 60%, so the extra income from the supermarket drive is much appreciated by all at the foodbank. Thank you to everybody who volunteered, and donated on the […]
13 Mar 17
March supermarket drive raises over 1000kg of food
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Last Saturday’s (4 March) supermarket drive at Waitrose, Holloway Road raised 1066 kgs of food for Islington food bank. Commenting on the drive, Reannan (pictured here), who is in charge of supermarket drives said, “The public has been very receptive, we think the good weather has helped, and once again the staff at Waitrose have […]
24 Oct 16
Supermarket food drives for the autumn and winter of 2016
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Here are the dates and locations for the upcoming food drives for this autumn and winter season: 5 November 2016 Waitrose, Holloway Road 3 December 2016 Waitrose, Holloway Road 7 January 2017 Waitrose, Holloway Road If you can volunteer at any of these food drives, please email [email protected]
8 Sep 16
Final summer supermarket drive is a hit
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This summer’s final supermarket drive at Waitrose Holloway Road was a roaring success, collecting 829.7kg of food for the foodbank. Volunteers were on the floor from 10am until 3pm greeting customers doing their Saturday shop and asking if they wanted to donate to the foodbank while they were in the supermarket. The response was positive from […]
3 Jul 16
June supermarket drive
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The latest supermarket drive took place on Saturday 18th June at Waitrose Holloway Road. Volunteers managed to collect 742.1kg of food, sadly not surpassing the impressive May drive, but this may have been hampered by the fact there was an Arsenal home match the same day, meaning the area was busier than usual. The next […]
8 Jun 16
Waitrose supermarket drive makes the tonne!
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A very successful supermarket drive at Waitrose Holloway Road on 21 May raised 1024.4kg. Thanks very much for all involved for achieving the tonne.