News
25 Jun 19
On the radio …
Last week, EFFB Project Manager, Heather spoke to Forest Radio about the work we do including volunteering opportunities, funding and seeking help. Listen to the recording on the Forest Radio website (plus a performance of Matt Redman’s 10,000 Reasons by Heather!)
25 Jun 19
6th Birthday
On Saturday (22nd June 2019), Epping Forest Foodbank volunteers gathered together to mark 6 years of serving the community. Thank you to all of the volunteers that attended, shared their stories, brought food and helped with the running of the day. We would also like to thank Robins Pie and Mash for providing us with food on […]
24 Jun 19
Support EFFB during Co-Op Fortnight
The Woodford Green Co-Op are supporting Epping Forest Foodbank as part of Co-Op Fortnight. They want to highlight the fact each of our shops is very much a part of the local community, run by locals, and managed by a local co-op. The store will be collecting food for us from 24th June until 7th July; […]
22 Jun 19
Serving our community for 6 years
Today (22nd June 2019) EFFB turns 6 years old. We started (as Loughton Foodbank) back in 2013 at the Restore Community Centre. We have published our figures to show how many people we have helped in the past 6 years, and the impact we have made within our community. If you would like to support […]
21 Jun 19
We want to tackle these issues
Epping Forest Foodbank’s manager, Heather speaks to the Epping Forest Guardian against increasing hunger crisis Read the full article here We were responding to questions asked of us by Mr Jack Barnard in the letters sections of the Epping Forest Guardian (30th May 2019 – page 22). Here are our full responses to the questions asked. (click […]
14 Jun 19
Capital Space
When you come face to face with people whose lives are on the edge, who can’t feed themselves, it’s a very humbling experience. What we’re doing to welcome them and make them feel loved is a great thing. Capital Space, the management company who run Loughton Seedbed Centre where Unit-D8 is located, has written an […]
13 Jun 19
June Newletter
The June 2019 edition of the Epping Forest Foodbank newsletter has landed. If you haven’t yet subscribed to our mailing list, you can do so here. This edition includes our stats for the financial year 2018/2019, all the information about how we celebrated National Volunteer Week 2019 and much more. You can read the full edition […]
1 Jun 19
June Shopping List
Thank you to everyone who donated food and other essentials to EFFB last month. With the beginning of a new month comes new requests, if you would consider donating anything off the list below we would be very grateful. Tinned vegetables UHT & Powdered Milk Rice Pudding & Custard Tinned Fruit Juice Chocolate Bars […]
1 Jun 19
National Volunteer’s Week
This week is National Volunteer’s Week, we just wanted to say a massive thank you to all the people volunteer tirelessly so that we can help those in crisis. This week our social media we will be posting client quotes about our volunteers to thank our current volunteers and hopefully inspire new ones.
21 May 19
Stephen Timms visits EFFB
Epping Forest Foodbank had a visit from local MP Stephen Timms last week. We were able to talk to him about the impact of Universal Credit on our community and The Trussell Trust’s #5weekstoolong campaign. Enjoyed visit to @TrussellTrust #EppingForestFoodbank yesterday, meeting @hlscholer and team, including Sug Sahadevan from @testhouseuk, hearing that local introduction of Universal […]