Atherton & Leigh foodbank | Atherton & Leigh Foodbank

15 Apr 20

Exercise for food with Bodyfit Academy

Do you want to work out and feed people at the same time? Well now you can! on Saturday 18 April at 9.30am Bodyfit Academy are hosting an event in aid of the foodbank and they want you to join in whether you are a member or not! To read more and get involved see the […]

13 Nov 19

‘Sorry We Missed You’ special screening

What are you doing on December 6th? Fancy watching a brand new movie with 2 leading actors? then ask them all about it? Well you can! Leigh Film Society are hosting a very special screening of the new Ken Loach film ‘Sorry We Missed You’ with lead actor Kris Hitchen and Hollyoaks actor Darren Jeffries , in attendance to […]

31 Jul 19

Our next food collections

We will be in Tesco Atherton on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd August collecting food, toiletries and cash from the very generous shoppers! If you can add one or two items to your shopping it will make a real difference to people who are struggling right here in our towns. See you than guys, looking […]

13 Jun 19

Jan & Bill Burton’s wedding gift to us

We were blown away when newlyweds, Mrs Jan & Mr. Bill Burton, got in touch and told us they had used their special day to help people in crisis in their local area On their wedding day, rather than gifts, they asked attending guests to bring donations for the foodbank and boy did they not […]

20 May 19

Our Yearly Figures

The yearly figure are in and we have to say we have real mixed emotions about them. First of all we would like to say a huge thankyou to all our volunteers over the past year. Regardless of whether you gave one 2 hour shift at one of our supermarket collections, you joined us in our […]

3 May 19

Thankyou Datatek Ltd.

It’s always nice to get an email out of the blue asking if we are in need of anything in particular and even more so when it is a local business looking to give a little back to people in crisis in their local area. This time it was the wonderful Greg Irvers of Datatek […]

25 Mar 19

A big thankyou to Leigh Constituency Labour Party

It is the kind of habit we love people to have and Leigh Constituency Labour party are definitely in the habit of donating food to us at their meetings. Geoff, the Leigh Baptist Church distribution centre manager, usually leaves the meeting laden with bags that have very kindly been donated by the members and we […]

17 Mar 19

Laltex Group help us with fantastic donation

We never get fed up of saying this – Our community is amazing! We are so blessed to operate in a place where people are kind, thoughtful and very generous. We could not feed close to the number of people in crisis that we do without the generosity of the public and businesses that donate […]

26 Feb 19

Asda agree to pay for warehouse

We are delighted to announce that Asda have very generously awarded us £29808 to help us pay for our warehouse for the next 3 years. Gwen, Asda Leigh’s community champion, has volunteered with us from the very start of our journey and has been side by side with us every step of the way. She […]

17 Dec 18

Christmas Opening Times

We are open as usual over the Christmas period except for Christmas day, Boxing day and New Years day. Click here for opening times If you are in crisis and require some emergency food over Christmas please do not hesitate to apply for a voucher and come see us! We work with hundreds of agencies […]

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