Food Bank

What are we?

Wimbledon Foodbank will be part of a national network of foodbanks, giving out nutritionally balanced emergency food to people in crisis who have nowhere else to turn. When a person has no financial safety net, a sudden crisis, such as a bereavement or benefits delay, redundancy or illness, can leave that person unable to feed themselves or their family. Such a situation can deteriorate quickly leading to relationship breakdown, house repossession or worse. Wimbledon Foodbank aims to support people who find themselves on the edge of disaster.

How does it work?

Food will be donated by the people of Wimbledon and surrounding area. Front-line care professionals identify people in crisis and give them a voucher. Production of the voucher at the Foodbank will entitle people to a warm welcome, a hot drink and a choice of foodstuffs to keep them going for three days. The Foodbank will put people in touch with agencies who can help resolve the underlying issues, and provide food boxes to other charities and agencies for their clients with immediate needs. The Wimbledon foodbank will operate every Monday and Thursday between 12 noon and 2pm, commencing on Monday 31st October 2011.

Information Event

Wimbledon Foodbank will be running an information event for our voucher distribution and food collection partners on Thursday 13th October at Elim Pentecostal Church Wimbledon, 59 High Path, Wimbledon, SW19 2JY.

The programme

10.45am               coffee

11.15am               presentation for church leaders

12 noon                lunch

1pm   presentation for other partners, if you have social workers or other professionals that may find this useful, please ask them to come.

We would like to invite you or anyone from your organisation to the event. During the presentation we will explain how to refer someone to us, the vision of the foodbank and how it works and how you can help collect food for the food bank.

Please RSVP by 10/10/11 to both the meeting and/or lunch for catering purposes and also so that we can have foodbank material for you.

Volunteer Recruitment Event - Sat 15^th Oct @ 9.30am – if you are interested in volunteering for the foodbank come and have a bacon roll and find out how your time can help change lives!

Contact us

We would love to hear from you!

Wimbledon Foodbank|59 High Path| Wimbledon|SW 19 2JY

Tel: 020 8544 0126|Email: wimbledonfoodbank@gmail.com

Yours sincerely

Rev Marcus Bennett

Wimbledon Foodbank