News
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
6 Dec 22
It’s not often we’re lost for words when it comes to the generosity of the people in our towns, because over the 9 and a half years we’ve been running and the dozens of collections and events we’ve done we have seen it so many times. This is different though, it’s the biggest cost of […]
20 Nov 22
Reverse advent calendars are here, could you do one?
Reverse Advent Calendar Over the past few years the idea of an advent calendar has switched from simply a picture, then chocolate treats and now youcangeg some extremely luxury ones with lots of nice gifts and treats available. Now there is another way to count down through advent to Christmas with a calendar that you […]
11 Nov 22
A must read for all our supporters and volunteers
Ever wondered what impact your donations or your time volunteering has on the people in crisis we help every day? Casually going about my day today, I received a message in our inbox, that made me so proud to be a volunteer at this amazing foodbank. Caroline, was asking how to give back, and what […]
7 Nov 22
It’s Tesco collection time and we need your help. (For 2 hours)
It’s almost our busiest time of the year and Tesco know this, which is why they have their winter food collection at this time of year. ‘This year it will be even more important as we have never been busier and expect Christmas to be a very very busy time. So what can you do […]