1. Kathryn Barker 2012

2. What did you have for your last meal?

3. 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

4. Hunger is not just a Third World Problem
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The Queens Golden Jubilee Award
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5. It can happen to anyone

6. 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.

7. What do we do?

8. 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

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

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

11. 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)

12. Foodbank volunteers collecting food from shoppers outside the supermarket

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

14. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

21. 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.’

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

23. 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

24. 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.

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