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Food Bank At New Day Church

Food Bank Continues!

Food Bank is as important as ever particularly at this crisis time with coronavirus. We will continue to try to maintain the service as long as we have the resources, so please keep your donations of food or finances coming.

Our volunteers will be at the church building Monday to Thursday between 9am and 1pm to accept donations. If you would like to donate and cannot get to the church at this time, please contact us on 01772 461454 or 07928 335679.

We are also on Facebook. Click here to visit our page.

Some of our designated donation points are back open and can now accept non-perishable food & toiletry donations! Please note that gyms, salons and charitiy shops remain closed during lockdown.

Muscle Alley opposite the church building on Ward Street. Open weekdays 10am-9pm and weekends 10am-2pm.

AK Active on Watkin Lane. See website booking page for opening times: https://akactive.com/pages/booking.

Beer Box on Station Road, Bamber Bridge. Open Wednesday - Friday, 3pm-6pm and week-ends 1pm-4pm. See Facebook page for updated opening times.

New Day Homes and Hope, charity shop is located on Hough Lane, Leyland. Open every day except Thursdays & Sundays.

Co-op Funeralcare on Station Road Bamber Bridge. Open Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.

The Ballroom Salon on Station Road Bamber Bridge. Tuesday to Satuday, 10am - 4pm.

Roberts & Co on Watkin Lane Lostock Hall. Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm, Saturday 9am - 4pm.

Thank you so much to each of these businesses for continuing to support us, we are very grateful!

Thank you all!

Happy New Year! Thank you so much for all your donations over the Christmas period and over the last year. We have worked out that we have been able to send out approximately 3500 deliveries to support more than 700 families in 2020! These are sad but amazing statistics. Sad because it just demonstrates the need but also amazing because as a Church and a community we have been able to come together to offer this level support.

As you may know this year we encouraged folk to fill a reverse advent calendar box and we were overwhelmed with how many people came on board with the scheme (see photo). It was wonderful to be able to take these extra items out to our clients over the festive period. We also had another lovely surprise for some of the clients that receive our deliveries. We took out 130 Christmas dinners which were kindly provided by The Hinds Head at Charnock Richard (pictured here) Thank you so much, they were very much appreciated.

3 people and Christmas meals

We have continued to receive donations from local supermarkets including from Morrisons Bamber Bridge, Asda Clayton Green, Co-op Lostock Hall, Booths Longton, Sainsburys Bamber Bridge and Tesco Extra Leyland. Your ongoing support from you and your customers makes a big difference.

Lathams The Bakers Limited in Tarleton continue to provide fresh pies, cakes and pastries twice a week which are very much appreciated by all. Luv Preston have also continued to share their donations regularly including bread, milk, and fresh fruit and vegetables.

The local community continue to pop in with their generous donations for which we are very grateful. We are also very blessed to receive so much from local groups and businesses including Preston Power Sports and Social Club who work at Electricity North West (who donated Asda vouchers), BAE Systems Samlesbury Shed 2, Lostock Hall and Leyland Slimming World Groups, B & Q Bamber Bridge, Lostock Hall Juniors Football Club Under 12's Blacks, Co-op Funeral Care, Sue Ryder Fulwood, Lostock Hall Football Club, Beer Box, and Roberts & Co.

Man with a van We would also like to give an extra big thank you to Grange Lane Garage, Van and Wagon Hire for so kindly allowing us a van for 3 days during Christmas week. This enabled us to deliver the extra Christmas advent boxes and gifts much more easily. Thank you also to our amazing volunteers who really went the extra mile to get all the deliveries out over Christmas. You are all amazing and worked really hard.

An extra special thank you goes to Joshua's Joy who has reached a very ambitious fundraising target of £5,000 for food bank this year!! You are our community hero. We give a huge congratulations to the whole family! Your support has enabled us to help many more families this year! Also thanks to Rebecca for a fabulous cake!

We have seen a rise in families and individuals needing our help in the last few weeks due to the pandemic. So although we have had an amazing increase in donations, it is very much needed and your continued support over the next few weeks, especially with the latest restriction, will be critical to sustain the level of help.

At the Food Bank our volunteers do their best to provide for all the different needs of our clients. We have various types of bags for families, large families and single people plus those in temporary accommodation. We also try to cater for those having special dietary requirements including diabetic, vegetarian, vegan, food intolerances and halal. Well done to all the team who manage this so well! We would also like to thank all those new volunteers who have started in the last few weeks. We really welcome the extra help for the upcoming busy Christmas period.

We are currently helping over 90 individuals and families per week, so your donations whether in items or financial are very much appreciated and needed. We are registered with 'Just Giving'; if you would like to donate in this way, please press the 'Donate with Just Giving' button at the top of this page. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far especially those from the Gregson Lane Folk Club who support us regularly financially.

Emergency Appeal

This year, we have become aware of the desperate needs of some clients when we go out on food deliveries. In response we have set up a campaign on Just Giving for basic practical items and white goods. Please read the information on the link below and donate if you can. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. We are 67% towards our target which is fantastic!

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/emergency-appeal-ndc-foodbank

Our Service

The purpose of our Food Bank is to provide provisions for people who are struggling to provide for themselves due to financial limitations as a result of various circumstances. Our service is designed to be a hand up, supporting individuals and families in need through engagement and support as they stabilise their financial situation.

Two key principles in the operation of Food Bank are:

A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out – This is not just about free food – Our model is to: Engage / Assess / Support / Transform.

Home Delivery Model – Teams of fully trained volunteers deliver direct to the homes of the people needing our help.

To enable us to support our local community, we regularly need donations of non-perishable food items, toiletries, household cleaning items, pet food and other pet essentials. If you're interested in finding out how you can support our Food Bank including donating any items, please contact the team by phone or email or altenatively bring items to the collection point at the church in Ward street Monday to Thursdays, 9am - 1pm.

How to Access Food Bank Support

Our Food Bank covers the following areas: Lostock Hall, Penwortham, Bamber Bridge, Clayton Brook and Leyland.

Clients are referred to us by a range of agencies such as health and social care professionals, support workers, schools, Christians Against Poverty (CAP), housing associations and Citizens Advice. A referral form from an agency is required in order to access our support.

For agencies to make a referral, please complete the Food Bank Referral Form (see below) and email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If we receive referrals for support by Tuesday, we will try to add the individual or family on the Thursday's delivery list. Please note that the Food Bank is not open on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. We rely purely on volunteers so please bear with us if we are not available to take your call or respond to your email as quickly as you would like.

If you are a referer or would like to donate, please contact us on 01772 461454 or 07928 335679. You could also visit our Facebook page here.

Attachments:
Foodbank Referral Form NDC Oct19	[ ]	535 kB
Foodbank Referral Form NDC Oct19	[ ]	315 kB
Foodbank Food List NDC Oct19	[ ]	494 kB