News and Events
6 Oct 21
Thank You Harvest Collections 2021
Lots of people and organisations to say thank you to this week – financial and food donations from; • St Michaels Church, Bamford • Castleton Moor Methodist Church • St Marys RC Church, Littleborough • Mr & Mrs Arkle – • Rochdale Parish Church • Streamline Cars – £500 • Thank you to the children, […]
29 Sep 21
Greenhill Methodist Church Harvest Donation
Thank you to Greenhill Methodist Church members for your Harvest Service donation to us. We and our clients really appreciate all that you do.👏
21 Sep 21
Thank You for Your Donation
Thank you Mrs Waseem for your fabulous donation to the Foodbank – we and our clients really appreciate your generosity.
27 Apr 21
Rochdale Round Table Donates £3,000 to Rochdale Foodbank
A cheque was presented to Catherine Entwistle (Rochdale Foodbank co-ordinator) on Tuesday 13 April by Rochdale Round Table, after funds were raised at Christmas with the annual Santa sleigh rides. As the usual Christmas Can Collection could not take place due to the pandemic, monetary donations were encouraged. Members of Rochdale Round Table have thanked […]
5 Jun 20
Record Donations
As a Trustee and Treasurer of Rochdale Foodbank I would like to thank everyone who has made a donation of money to us during the Covid-19 crisis. If you read our latest newsletter; click here, you can see there have been many changes at the Foodbank since the lock-down started. However, the one thing that […]
3 Apr 20
Morrisons £1 Million Food Donation
As part of the national initiative, Morrisons store on Kingsway are actively involved in the £1 million donation to Foodbanks and other local charities. Around £1,000 of food is being delivered each Monday night and collected the following day. The Foodbank is in receipt of the largest part of this delivery and took first delivery […]
20 Dec 19
Rochdale 6th Form College – Christmas Donation
Overwhelming amounts of food and essential items have been donated to Rochdale Foodbank and Rochdale Sanctuary Trust Soup Kitchen by our generous students and staff ahead of a difficult time of year for those in need. Donations were collected by the Students’ Union in exchange for wearing a Christmas jumper for the day. A whopping […]
20 Dec 19
Falinge Park High School – Christmas Donation & Messages
Falinge Park High School’s Years 8 and 10 made an enormous pre-Christmas collection for Rochdale’s Foodbank delivered by four Year 8 students. The total weight of food raised was over 424 kg. When volunteers went to the school to say thank you to the year groups at their morning assemblies, the students produced two enormous sheets […]
9 May 19
Food Swap with Stockport Foodbank
On Wednesday 8th May 2019, two volunteers from Rochdale Foodbank drove to Stockport to swap food which both foodbanks had an excess of for food that they were short of. We swapped just over 500 tins of veg for an equivalent amount of Pasta Sauce. In all we took 213.75 kg of tinned vegetables and […]
19 Dec 18
PAR Group Support – Fundraising
Rochdale Foodbank would like to give a big shout out to the generous folk at PAR Group who have donated to Rochdale Foodbank and LW Storehouse. This kind donation comes at a time when we are seeing an dramatic increase in the number of people in food poverty. PAR Group commented… “The use of foodbanks […]