News
15 Jul 22
Goodbye & Good Luck!
After 6 years, our volunteer warehouse coordinator Jackie is hanging up her tabard. Since joining for “an afternoon a week”, Jackie has been at the heart of all things Epping Forest Foodbank. Her hard work and dedication has been a massive part of getting Epping Forest Foodbank through the Covid pandemic, switching everything to […]
1 Jun 22
New Chair of Trustees
After 3 years as EFFB’s Chair of Trustees, we are bidding a fond farewell to Chris Blackham and welcoming Julian Dutnall as the incoming Chair. After studying Law at Exeter and qualifying as a barrister in 1996, Julian qualified as a teacher and has been in education ever since. Julian has taught in 5 state […]
20 May 22
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 […]
30 Mar 22
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; […]
1 Mar 22
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 […]
16 Dec 21
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 […]
16 Dec 21
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 […]
1 Nov 21
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 […]
1 Nov 21
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 […]
10 Oct 21
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 […]