News
27 Jan 22
Change of Address
Exciting News! We are moving from Broad Street Walk to Waterford House. The move will take a week,from 31 January 2022 until 6 February. During that time we won’t be open for food parcel collections, instead we will be delivering to clients’ homes. Our new base in Frederick House, on the Reading Road, is used […]
14 Dec 21
Alfie sells toys to support the Foodbank
Last year a local child called Alfie sold some of his toys to raise money for the Foodbank and purchased a large volume of food for us just before Christmas. He has done the same again this year and raised a tremendous amount. Our sincere thanks go to Alfie for his kindness and generousity
6 Dec 21
Donation from Intersurgical
Massive thank you to Intersurgical Complete Respiratory Systems for dropping off a huge donation to our new premises this morning.
29 Nov 21
Christmas Presence
Wokingham Foodbank have teamed up with First Day Children’s Charity and SHARE Wokingham, with support from Wokingham Borough Council and other local charities, to open the Christmas Presence shop overlooking Elms Field. Families can, by appointment, come and choose Christmas gifts and food hampers, allowing parents and carers to choose gifts their children really want, […]
29 Nov 21
We’re Moving!
Over the last couple of years footfall to our foodbank has been incredibly high and we have struggled for space. Throw in a global pandemic requiring social distancing and the situation has been really challenging. We are moving part of our operation to new premises in Winnersh and from Monday 6th December it will be […]
26 Nov 21
Christmas donation from Morrisons
This week we received a very generous cash donation to be spent on Christmas food for the Foodbank. Massive thank you to the team at Morrisons in Woosehill who helped out this morning when we turned up to spend it.
2 Nov 21
Holme Grange School Harvest Festival Donation
We are very grateful for the wonderful donation from Holme Grange School
12 Oct 21
St. Gerorge’s School Ascot delivered their Harvest donation today
St. Gerorge’s School Ascot delivered their Harvest donation today and a team from the school helped us date and sort their massive 249kg collection. Thank you for their invaluable help today.
1 Oct 21
Bags for Life
We are running short of Bags for Life, which we use for food parcels. We are very grateful for Tescos in Wokingham, who recently donated lots of them to us, but we still need more. If you have any please leave them in the collection bin at Tesco, or drop them into us during our […]
28 Sep 21
Ludgrove School donate their Harvest collection
Huge thank you to all those at Ludgrove School who donated three trolleys of food to Wokingham Foodbank! Harvest Festival donations are starting to come in and we couldn’t be more grateful!