News and Events

Thank you to Nelson Street Church!

Tins of donated food

A huge thank you to everyone who donated food in response to the Nelson Street Reverse Advent Calendar collection for Rochdale Foodbank! Thank you so much for everyone who donated!

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Winners!

We won in the Rochdale Business Awards 2025, in the Community Engagement category! Well done, everyone who made this possible, and thank you to Target Fire Protection, RDA and everyone else who made the awards possible. We are absolutely thrilled to have won the Community Engagement award! It is because of the incredible support from […]

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Share the Warmth this Christmas

Share the Warmth This Christmas

Help fill a plate with hope this Christmas. Just £56 can feed a Rochdale family in crisis. Donate directly on our JustGiving Christmas Campaign page (or even start your own festive fundraiser!) — together we can feed 50 families and share the warmth of Christmas. ❤️ Alternatively, scan the QR code below to donate today. […]

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£18,000 grant awarded!

National Lottery Community Fund logo

This Monday morning brought news we won’t forget. We received an email from the National Lottery Community Fund: “We’re really happy to tell you we will be funding your project following your application to the National Lottery Community Fund. This means The National Lottery Community Fund is giving Rochdale Foodbank £18,000 to help your community […]

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Thank you to Marston Holdings

Volunteers at the Foodbank sorting items

Marston Holdings presented us with a cheque this week for £1,000! We are so grateful to them for their support and to everyone who made this possible.

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A Very Busy Day

We have had our busiest day today in a number of weeks at Foodbank Our volunteers worked non stop handing out food parcels and supporting our clients who needed a chat with our in house citizens advisor, Moses. We processed lots of vouchers and handed out the following food parcels :- Single/ Couples Families A […]

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New Partnership with Morrisons, Kingsway

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Morrison’s Supermarket on Kingsway,Rochdale. 🥫We now have a large collection tub in store, for customer food donations. Emma Pedgrift, Morrison’s Community Champion said “ Morrison’s are pleased to be hosting a food collection box for Rochdale Foodbank. We want to play our part in helping feed […]

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A Huge Thank You Fisherfield Childcare

🙏🏻 A HUGE Thursday Thank You to the parents, children and staff of Fisherfield Childcare (Sandbrook Nursery) who have kindly collected for us and donated some of our most wanted items this week. We are so grateful for every single item, and we love it when local businesses support us 👏👏👏 https://www.fisherfieldchildcare.co.uk/…/sandbrook…/

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What – No Bags !?

Last week Rochdale Foodbank ran out of plastic bags completely. The Coop at Milnrow and Marks & Spencer gave us a bundle and then Tesco turned up with 3000 ! Between them all they saved the day ! Pictured with Iain Wight is Angie from Tesco with 3 students from Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School […]

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Christmas and New Year Opening Times

Monday 26th December – closed Tuesday 27th December – closed Wednesday 28th December – 11-12.30 pm Thursday 29th December – 11-12.20 pm Friday 30th December – 11-12.30 pm Monday 2nd January 2023 – closed Tuesday 3rd January – 11-12.30 Normal opening hours Monday-Friday – 11-12.30 pm

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