News | Atherton & Leigh Foodbank

16 Jun 25

Asda Food Drive

Asda Leigh, 13th -15th June 2025 Food Drive What a brilliant weekend we had at the Atherleigh Way store, with our volunteers being kept busy from minute 1 till the very end of the day on Sunday. The amazing Asda shoppers did what they always do, by digging deep to help local people that are […]

12 Jun 25

Guarantee our Essentials Lobby day

9.3 MILLION people are facing hunger and hardship across the UK – that’s 3 times the population of Wales. So on Tuesday 18th June we’re joining Trussell UK , the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and hundreds of people in Parliament to call on MPs to act. The UK government must commit to an Essentials Guarantee […]

10 Jun 25

Volunteers required for 2 hours, that’s you isn’t it?

3 day collection at ASDA Leigh We will be in Asda, Atherleigh way, on Friday 13th – Sunday 15th of June (this weekend) and we still need a few volunteers to help us collect the donations from the generous shoppers. Could you spare 2 hours to help local people in food crisis? We start at […]

27 May 25

Supermarket collection Saturday 31st May

This Saturday (31st May) our amazing volunteers will be back manning the table at Tesco Leigh, from 9am – 5pm, collecting much needed donations of food, toiletries and cash from the very generous shoppers in The Loom, Derby Street store. We know it’s tough for everyone, but if you can afford to, please add an […]

22 Mar 25

AGM 2025

Our Annual General Meeting for the year 2024 – 2025 will take place at Leigh Baptist church, Vernon Street/Church Street, Leigh, WN7 1BH on Monday 9th June. Save the date! The meeting will get under way at 7pm prompt, with all our volunteers, supporters and fund givers encouraged to join us to hear about our […]

1 Jan 25

Thankyou to all our supporters and volunteers

We are blessed to operate in areas that seem to have a zero tolerance for hunger in their community, and that is borne out by the sheer amount of donations we get every year. We are lucky that the donations of food cover all we need and the money we get allows us to cover […]

17 Dec 24

Christmas opening times

We are open as normal over the Christmas period, except Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th December and 1st January 2025, when we are closed. If you have a voucher please be as early as possible on the day you are coming to see us, as we expect to be busy. You can find our times and […]

19 Nov 24

Tesco Winter Food Collection 2024

The Tesco winter food 2024 Thursday 28th Nov till Saturday 30th November from 9am – 5pm We are back in Tesco Superstore Atherton and Tesco Leigh Extra from 9 am – 5 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, where our amazing volunteers will be ready and waiting to accept donations of food, toiletries and cash from the […]

4 Nov 24

Our Facebook page has been reinstated

It’s been an odd few weeks, with no Facebook page to thank donors and all the organisations, schools and churches that donated over the time it was suspended, but thanks to the Trussells brilliant social media team we are back up and running again. A huge thankyou to Alissa at Trussell and Cheryl at Meta […]

5 Oct 24

Facebook page suspended

Unfortunately our Facebook page has been suspended, so we are unable to post anything, and you won’t be able to see anything we have already posted. We don’t know why this has happened but we are working to get the page reinstated, and should have more news soon. We apologise for any inconvenience this may […]

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