Thurrock Foodbank
From: Newall Peter <peternewall@thurrock.foodbank.org.uk>
Sent: 03 July 2025 13:58
Subject: Weekly Wire
Good afternoon, I hope you manage to survive the heatwave and we are hopefully now back to a sensible level!
It certainly was tough for our Warehouse team sorting donations and packing Boxes in that heat, as well as the van crew loading the van and delivering the boxes to our centres. We are so grateful for all they do in these hot conditions, Ceri does all she can to get the fans going before they arrive to keep the building cool! The van crew continually mention the comfort cooling rather than the air conditioning on the van, not sure what they are on about, as the windows do open and the fan works!
With the hot temperatures meant that our centres had a mixed week with Saturday being quite quiet across all our centres.
This week we received our data pack from Trussell, this gives us a good insight to the people we are serving across Thurrock.
We are now interacting with 94 referral agencies, thanks to Kate's hard work developing a wider network of referral agencies. This also includes 13 schools that have issued vouchers to their parents that need help this since April 2025.
Sadly once fact that still remains is that 56% of the people coming to Thurrock Foodbank are coming for the first time, as they seek help for their situation.
Sadly one thing that was confirmed is that our donations are significantly down, and we are struggling to make up our standard food parcels!
We give grateful thanks to all those that continue to faithfully donate to us, we appreciate how hard it is during these times of increased prices, but we are still short of some of the essential items required to make up a balanced food parcel.
The data also confirms that we are now spending significantly more money each week on replenishing our stocks, which is now starting to significantly deplete our funds. We are even calling on our reserve stocks of Baked Beans!
We have a growing list of low stock items required to make up our food parcels, these items are:
Tinned Meats (currys, Stew, Spaghetti Bolognese etc)
Long Life Milk,
Tinned Soups,
Tinned Fish,
Desserts (Custard, Rice Pudding, Jellies, Sponge Puddings)
Tinned Potatoes
Noodles
Chocolate
Tea & Coffee
Cleaning Products
Toiletries
We really value all your support for our work as we seek to bless the community of Thurrock
If you require any further information or would to discuss any aspect of our work in more detail, please do not hesitate to contact me,
Thank you so much for your support
Pete Newall
Director of Operations
2-4 Chase Road, Corringham, Essex, SS17 7QH
01375-411806/ 01375-416200
- 96 Dock Rd
- Tilbury
- Essex
- RM18 7BT
01375 842309
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