Good afternoon,

I hope all is well with you, and you are starting to enjoy some Christmas festivities, it certainly is lovely seeing the Christmas decorations. 

A HUGE Thank You to all those wonderful people that helped at our recent Tesco Collection 

We collected a fantastic 1,126.6kg of food and £298.03 in monetary donations. We really appreciate having some volunteers from Murphys,Grays Rotary Club, Natwest and our faithful band of Foodbank volunteers. We so very much appreciate the time they dedicated to support us. A special Thank you Angela Mitchell, the Tesco Community Champion and the staff at Tesco Lakeside for supporting us over the three days and for their wonderful  support.

The team from Murphys were there to start us off on the Thursday Collection:

This is certainly a busy and exciting time of year with various supporters offering to seek new ways of helping those struggling to find some joy this Christmas time, whether through our reverse advent calendars. making up a Christmas Hamper or offering to be santa for those that can't afford to visit Santa. There is certainly plenty going that proves people in Thurrock do care about others.

This month’s Thurrock Foodbank Newsletter highlights the incredible generosity we’ve witnessed across our community.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ga5WWMbMiP3dtl1b9QxNP10KOqCbTkMi/view?usp=sharing

Whilst we are seeing a busy period, we are still seeing a 6.6% reduction in people coming to Thurrock Foodbank, but the sad statistic is that more than half of the people coming through our doors are coming to us for the first time many with new and different problems.

A massive thank you goes to our Warehouse teams and Van crews, who sort donations, make up and deliver the food parcels. There work this time of year is literally back breaking and we thank them for their hard work and commitment.

We are also seeing a downward trend in donations as people are feeling the cost of living, with our donations being down 8% on the same period last year, This despite people being very generous during the harvest period and 

Best Regards