West Northumberland Food Bank is sustained by the community it serves. Food donations, financial support and local collection points all play a part in keeping essential support available when people need it. If you’d like to be part of that support, there are three ways you can help:
Support us financially
Financial donations give us flexibility. They allow us to: buy food in bulk, fill gaps when stock runs low, cover fuel and delivery costs, respond quickly when demand increases.
A regular monthly gift helps us plan ahead and respond consistently. If you’re a UK taxpayer, Gift Aid increases your donation at no extra cost.
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Donate what we need - check our live shopping listThe most helpful donations are the items we’re currently short of. Our needs change week to week, so checking before you shop makes a real difference. Download the Bank the Food app to see what we need right now.
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Example shopping list
This example shopping list includes the items we regularly need. Any items highlighted in red are the items we need most often. In addition to food, we also welcome donations of any of the following household and personal care items.
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Cereal
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UHT Milk (and non dairy alternatives)
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Tinned meat and fish
Coffee and teabags
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Tinned soup
Biscuits and cakes
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Tinned and dried pasta
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Cook-in sauces
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Tinned desserts
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Tinned fruit and veg
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Microwave rice pouches
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Jams and spreads
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Toothpaste
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Deodorants
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Toilet Rolls
Shower gel
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Shampoo
Razors
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Washing powder / tablets
Bleach
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Washing up liquid
Household cleaning sprays
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Baby wipes
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Pull ups (Size 5 / 6 / 7)
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Food Bank donation points
Donating food or household items is easy and we have collection points in main supermarkets in Prudhoe, Hexham, Haltwhistle, Corbridge, Haydon Bridge, Bellingham and Allendale, as well as smaller convenience stores and churches.You can drop off your donations at various collection points across West Northumberland.
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Waitrose Hexham
Lidl Hexham
CO-OP Bellingham
CO-OP Prudhoe
Wark Post Office
Bardon Mill Village shop
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Tesco Hexham
Queens Hall Hexham
CO-OP Allendale
Sainsbury Haltwhistle
Wylam Pharmacy
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CO-OP Hexham
CO-OP Haydon Bridge
CO-OP Corbridge
Slaley community shop
Wylam Spar
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Many churches throughout the area also support us with regular collections,
Ask your local church if they collect on behalf of us.
- St Andrew's Corbridge
- Hexham Abbey
- St Mary's Hexham
- Acomb Methodist Church
- St Peter's Humshaugh
- St Mary's Ovingham
- St John's Stocksfield
- St Peter's Bywell
Ask your local church if they collect on behalf of us.
Other donations
To keep up with the increase in demand we have to purchase food in order to supplement food donations. Details of how to make cash donations can be found here.
West Northumberland Foodbank is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
The objects of the CIO are the prevention or relief of poverty in West Northumberland in particular but not exclusively, by providing emergency food supplies and related provisions to individuals in need, and to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
The objects of the CIO are the prevention or relief of poverty in West Northumberland in particular but not exclusively, by providing emergency food supplies and related provisions to individuals in need, and to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
