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Why do people come to Epping Forest Foodbank?

At Epping Forest Foodbank, we believe everyone who comes through our doors is an individual. We do not believe there is a blanket reason which explains why people find themselves in crisis. However, one thing that we can be sure of, is that the need for our Foodbank’s services has been rising dramatically and shows […]

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Easter Opening Times

With the Easter Holidays approaching, we wanted to make you aware of our distribution centre and donation point opening times. Distribution Centres; Thursday 14th April (St Martin’s Church Rooms) – OPEN AS USUAL Saturday 16th April (St John’s on the Broadway)- CLOSED Tuesday 19th April (Community Hub, Epping) – OPEN AS USUAL Warehouse Donation Sessions; […]

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End of Year Report 2021

Today we are publishing our third End of Year Report, 3 years after we became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in February 2019. We have a great team of committed volunteers, support of the local community and Trussell Trust to work with our network of referral agents to identify and support people in crisis with […]

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Local Community and Civic Hub partners come together to support children at Christmas

A community Christmas Giving campaign has provided over 70 gifts for children and young people living in Epping Forest, who may not have otherwise received presents at this festive time of year. The scheme, run by Epping Forest District Council and supported by Voluntary Action Epping Forest and Essex Police, ran both a crowd-funding campaign […]

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Christmas Opening Times

**UPDATE – DELIVERIES ONLY 29th DECEMBER** As Christmas approaches, we wanted to make you aware of this year’s opening times for our distribution centres and doorstop deliveries. Monday 20th December 2021 – OPEN AS USUAL Wednesday 22nd December 2021 – OPEN AS USUAL Thursday 23rd December 2021 – CLOSED Saturday 25th December 2021 – CLOSED  […]

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New Donation Point

We are pleased to announce a brand new donation point located within the Epping Forest district council offices, which are open Monday – Friday 9 am to 5 pm; Epping Forest District Council, Civic Offices, 323 High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ Find the full list of our donation points on our Donate Food page. If […]

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Trustee’s Week

Trustees’ week is an annual event to showcase the great work our trustee’s do. For this year’s celebration, we asked Chris, our chair of trustees, to write about his role at the foodbank. There are lots of different reasons people have for volunteering. Mine were pretty simple – I’d worked for a bunch of different […]

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World Mental Health Day 2021

Today is World Mental Health Day. For this year’s World Mental Health Day the Better Health – Every Mind Matters campaign is focusing on “What works for me”, demonstrating how different actions can help us with our mental wellbeing. These simple tips are designed to show that ‘there are little things we can all do […]

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#KeepTheLifeline

How would you feel if your income was suddenly cut by a fifth overnight? This October, more than 9,000 people in Epping Forest could lose “lifeline” funding as the UK government are planning to cut Universal Credit by £20 per week, the biggest overnight cut to benefit payments since the modern welfare state began. Data […]

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Change to Monday Distribution Centre

From Monday 13th September EFFB’s Monday Distribution Centre session in Epping has been permanently moved to: Community Hub Epping Forest District Council Civic Offices 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ We will be open between 15:30 – 17:00 to redeem referral vouchers. There is limited parking available on site. If you are in need of […]

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