MFB
Dear All,
We are glad to be able once again to deliver non-perishable foods and other essentials to the MFB and hope you will feel you want to continue to support this sadly much needed initiative.
We’ll be starting with the CHRISTMAS APPEAL!
We will be uniting our efforts with those of Peter and Sue Allen for their Christmas Appeal, from the villages of Cawton, Stonegrave and Gilling, and the date in question will be December 2nd from those villages but …
12 noon Monday December 6th-AMPLEFORTH. ( At the back of Our lady and St Benedict’s or in the church hall)
We are very grateful to Peter and Sue as to people at that end of the valley for the generosity that enabled periodic and very worthwhile trips to the Food Bank over the last year.
So… 12 NOON MONDAY 6TH DECEMBER will be the date for your diaries - the last time for delivering your donations of food, toiletries and CHRISTMAS TREATS !
Some of you will have switched your contributions to the Foodbank to valuable regular financial support via the Foodbank website. This is great but the MFB manager says they are desperately in need of actual donations of food too.
Please therefore, if you can, resume the practice of physical giving which we have built up over several years, perhaps in addition to any financial contribution you may make.
The MFB website provides a few statistics for you to think about, such as 115 3-day parcels given every day in 2020 to people in crisis; 41% of Middlesbrough children living below the poverty line – nearly half!; twelve and a half thousand people fed during 2020.
A reminder of what is urgently needed at Middlesbrough now:
URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS
- LONG LIFE JUICE
- TINNED RICE PUDDING
- COOKING RICE
- TINNED CUSTARD
- TINNED MEAT
- TINNED TOMATOES
- PASTA (NOT SPAGHETTI OR LASAGNE SHEETS PLEASE)
- BREAKFAST CEREAL (NOT PORRIDGE PLEASE)
- MILK - UHT OR POWDERED
- LONG-LIFE FRUIT JUICE OR CORDIAL/SQUASH
- TINNED RICE PUDDING
- JAM/MARMALADE/PEANUT BUTTER/CHOCOLATE SPREAD
- BISCUITS (SWEET RATHER THAN SAVOURY)
- SNACKS/TREATS E.G. BARS OF CHOCOLATE, CRISPS
- TINNED VEGETABLES (CARROTS, SWEETCORN, MIXED VEG)
- TINNED POTATOES OR PACKET MASH
- PACKET SOUPS ("CUP-A-SOUP")
- TINNED/CARTON CUSTARD OR POWDER MIX
- TINNED FISH
- TEA
- COFFEE
Thank you all again. Keep safe and God bless,
David and Eve
The following website will help with cash donations, single or regular:
https://middlesbrough.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-money/
(The Give.net scheme (a non-profit-making charity itself) suggested on the above website, charges a 3% administration fee. You can avoid this by adopting one of the other schemes mentioned on the website which I reproduce here):
DIRECT PAYMENTS
You can make one-off or regular donations directly into our bank account using these details:
- Sort code: 08-92-99 (Co-operative Bank)
- Account number: 65603002
- Account name: Middlesbrough Foodbank
REGULAR GIVING:
We believe in creating sustainable projects that have a lasting impact. Your regular gifts enable us to plan ahead and commit to projects. It’s also an easy way to manage your giving.
To set up a standing order by post, please download this standing order form and send it to Middlesbrough Foodbank, 5 Wear Court, Wallis Road, Skippers Lane Ind. Est., Middlesbrough, TS6 6DU.
8th November 2021