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10 Oct 25

Connect Bradford 2025

On Thursday, 2nd October, Bradford Central Foodbank and Renew Wellbeing hosted the networking event “Connect Bradford”. This was an incredible opportunity for our referral agencies to build the connections, referrals, and signposting needed to improve the incredible service they provide for their clients. There are so many remarkable projects in Bradford! This event was an […]

10 Oct 25

Newsletter: September 2025

Hey there, I hope you had a good summer! After a break it’s always good to remind and inspire yourself about why you do what you do. We do this work and you supported us in the past because it’s urgently needed and it really helps people in their crisis situation. So I was really encouraged when Justin […]

10 Oct 25

Newsletter: August 2025

Thank you so much to everyone who gives so generously, which meant we were able to feed 1268 people in June, including 415 children. But it’s not right for so many people to be struggling to survive on Universal Credit. There simply isn’t enough money to pay the bills and put food on the table. This needs […]

10 Oct 25

Newsletter: July 2025

Thanks to our generous donors, we were able to feed 1268 people in June, including 415 children. Children like James* whose mum told me she needed the foodbank to feed her children. *name changed and photo used with permission It’s not right for so many people to be struggling to survive on Universal Credit. There simply […]

12 Dec 24

Recruiting for Foodbank Host

Are you passionate about helping people out of poverty and food crisis? Can you get a large and varied team moving and have the maturity to deal with a wide variety of people with grace and patience? If you want to be part of leading an amazing team that is feeding 1500 people a month […]

4 Sep 23

August News

This week a lady and her 3 young children came into the Food Bank. Without going into too much detail she told me she’d had to flee to rescue her daughters from a horrific situation as they were in danger of severe harm. She’d had no choice but to leave everything, her home and a […]

24 Jul 23

June 23

Together, we’ve fed 1257 people in June who are at their lowest point with no-where else to turn. As you know we don’t want people to stay in food crisis which is why one of our advice projects gives one to one job coaching during Foodbank sessions run by Gareth Thompson (pictured in the middle). […]

24 Jul 23

May 23

Your donation will help us feed 1375 people a month who are struggling to survive. People like Ami who said: ‘It started in February when I lost my disability allowance even though I had a clot in my head, heart problems, lymphoedema & underactive thyroid. It affected me in every way and I ended up feeling […]

13 Apr 23

April 23

We’ve been as busy as ever as the demand continues to increase due to the cost of living crisis. In March fed 1563 hungry people in Bradford, a 30% increase on March 2022 and give Easter Eggs to their children! We’ve been campaigning on trying to get the government to increase the basic rate of […]

1 Mar 23

March 23 News

Hey there, I can’t believe that we’ve had 2 months of 2023 already! Probably because the ‘Cost of Living’ crisis is having such a big impact on local families who are struggling the most. In the last 2 months we’ve fed nearly 3000 people (2945 to be exact!), a 30% increase on last year and I’ve never […]

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