Kathryn Barker 2012

What did you have for your last meal?

Some Children have to imagine what their next meal looks like Did you know … Some Children have to imagine what their next meal looks like

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It can happen to anyone

It’s not just the homeless who are hungry in our country today. It could be your best friend It could be someone in your class It could be someone who lives in a big house and drives an expensive car It could be YOU. It’s not just the homeless who are hungry in our country today.

What do we do?

Agencies and vouchers At Grantham Foodbank we work with agencies such as Citizens Advice Bureau, Job Centre Plus, and Sure Start to provide food for families in need with enough food for 3 days. We help families in Grantham and the surrounding villages. The agencies give the family a voucher to bring to the food bank to redeem for the food. We cannot give food without a voucher

donations In the first 24 months since we opened we have collected and donated almost 34 tonnes of food to 3400 hungry people including 1100 children

Where do we get the food from? Supermarket collections Churches Schools Businesses Individuals And you..

Supermarket collections Please could you buy just one item from this list to donate to the Food Bank.   Milk (UHT or powder, preferably semi- skimmed) Cereal (preferably non-sugared) Tinned Soup Fruit Juice (carton long life) Fruit Squash Pasta / Cooking Sauces Baked Beans / Spaghetti Rice/Sponge Pudding (tin) Tomatoes (Tinned) Pasta/Rice/Cous Cous (500g / 1kg) Tinned Veg (carrots, sweet corn, peas, mixed) Tea Bags (40’s/80’s), Coffee (small) Potato (Instant Mash or tinned) Tinned Meat/Fish Tinned Fruit (in juice preferably) Sugar (500g / 1kg) Biscuits, Crackers, Crispbreads Healthy Snacks (Raisins, Apricots etc)

Foodbank volunteers collecting food from shoppers outside the supermarket

Food is sorted into boxes of the same type of item.

When the boxes inside the supermarket are full they are taken outside under a ‘marquee’ ready to be collected by the van at the end of the day and taken to the warehouse.

All the food gets taken to the Warehouse After the collection…. All the food gets taken to the Warehouse

Stage 1 The food is left in the hallway on shelves waiting to be weighed, sorted and put into storage by the warehouse volunteers.

The food is weighed in and recorded. Stage 2 The food is weighed in and recorded.

The food is sorted according to date and type of food. Stage 3 The food is sorted according to date and type of food.

Stage 4 When a voucher is brought into the Foodbank, one of the volunteers offers a cup of tea, coffee and cake

In a welcoming atmosphere. It looks and feels like a café. A volunteer talks to the client about any specific needs they may have such as; ‘Do they have any animals? Or need any toiletries or nappies.’

Stage 5 Then food packs that have been packed by other volunteers are given to the client

A food allocation slip Volunteer: Voucher No: Date: Received Signature ITEM ALLOCATION AMOUNT GIVEN Cereal 1 large 1 medium Soup – can/packet 8 standard Beans /spaghetti in sauce 6 standard Tomatoes / pasta sauce 3 standard Vegetables 1 tin of sweetcorn 2 small tins of peas 1 small tin of carrots Meat 1 tin of corned beef 2 tins of chilli/mince beef Or vegetarian Mayonnaise/salad cream 1 small jar Fish Fruit 5 standard Custard 2 standard Sponge pudding Biscuits 1 large packet Sugar 1 kg + Pasta 500g Rice 1 kg Mashed potatoes or tinned potatoes 2 standard packet/tins Tea or coffee 80 teabags and small coffee Bottle or cordial/squash 1 bottle Fruit Juice carton 2 Milk UHT / powder 5 carton EXTRA TREATS WHEN AVAILABLE Sauces Chocolate / snacks Jam Tiger noodles Received Signature A food allocation slip

What can you do to help? You can have ‘one-off’ collections such as Harvest You can have a box in school to collect all items on a regular basis You can collect specific items that we become short of You can collect extra special things such as Christmas presents or Easter eggs You can fundraise in any way you like. All donations go straight to the Foodbank to buy items we are low on or towards our rent, which is very expensive and helping to keep the building open is just as vital as the food itself.

thank you for your donations They really are appreciated and help so many families in Grantham