News | Epping Forest Foodbank

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 […]

16 Sep 21

#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 […]

8 Sep 21

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 […]

2 Jul 21

Winner of Disney’s Kindness Quest Competition shows their support for foodbank

2021 has been an exciting year for local young artists Sarah, 7, as she wins her second art competition of the year with her artwork supporting our foodbank’s work. For her entry into Disney’s Kindness Quest Competition, she drew a picture of her donating items to us, something she does every Friday. Her colourful picture […]

22 Jun 21

It’s our 8th birthday!

Epping Forest Foodbank started 8 years ago today as Loughton Foodbank to help support those in our community who are struggling. Since opening in 2013, we have distributed over 110,000 meals to local people in crisis. The last year has been challenging, as we adapted our service to continue providing support to our clients over […]

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