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16 Aug 23

Supermarket collection

Our next supermarket collection will take place, this coming Saturday 19th August, at Tesco Superstore in Atherton. Our amazing volunteers will be giving up their time to support local people, in the Crab Tree Lane store, from 9am until 5pm, and will be happy to accept donations of food, toiletries and cash from the generous […]

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21 Jun 23

Nominate us for £1000

We are once again asking our loyal supporters to nominate us in the Benefact Group #MovementForGood campaign. unfortunately our name a]as not drawn out for the donation, in the most recent draw, but we are eligible to be nominated again and it only takes a few moments. (Why not do it now whilst it fresh in your […]

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31 May 23

Nominate us for £1000 chance

Could we ask you to spare us a minute of your time please? In fact. It’s probably less than a minute to Nominate Us  for a Benefact Group #MovementForGood donation of £1000 The generous organisation say – At the Benefact Group, charitable giving is at the heart of what we do – and has been for […]

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24 May 23

Volunteers needed for 2hours at Asda collections

We’re back in Asda Leigh, Atherleigh way on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd June, collecting donations from the very generous shopper, from 9am till 5pm, and we need you’re help. Can you spare a minimum of 2 hours on either or both days to help people in crisis in your community? we have lots of […]

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3 Apr 23

Easter opening

As usual, we are open throughout the Easter period, accept for Good Friday and Easter Monday, when our team of amazing volunteers get to spend the day with their families. if you, or anyone you know, will need or is thinking about getting a voucher, we strongly recommended it is applied for as soon as […]

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3 Feb 23

Financial inclusion hub is launched

Atherton & Leigh foodbank are proud to announce we have partnered with a number of local and national organisations to offer a range of advice, support and options to assist people with their financial situations, to try and help them get out of food poverty and back on a level heading, with the hope of […]

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13 Jan 23

Our urgently needed items

Did you know we have a ‘Donate to the foodbank’ page, where we try to make people aware of what items we need most? All foodbanks rely on donations from the amazingly generous people, businesses, churches, social groups and organisations in their area, and we are blessed to be very well looked after, but as […]

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1 Jan 23

Asda Green Token Giving is here

ASDA Green Token Giving is back. We are delighted to have been selected to take part in the online ASDA Foundation Green Token Giving event, for the 2nd time. During covid Asda couldn’t operate their popular in-store token drop in the way they usually would, so they took it online and have decided to keep it there […]

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25 Dec 22

Thankyou to all our amazing supporters and volunteers

Our generous supporters Wow, what a year! Our busiest ever, with more vouchers fulfilled, more people fed and more food given out than ever before. For a short term project, that was only meant to last a few years, we really can’t believe we are needed more than ever, 9 years later. The question is, […]

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17 Dec 22

Christmas opening times.

As always, the lead up to Christmas has been hectic but this year it’s been far far busier than usual and we are all looking forward to a couple of days off, but don’t worry, it will only be the Bank holidays so we are open every day on the week prior to Christmas. We […]

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