News

25 Jul 24

Cans for Cowes Week

Red Funnel & Isle of Wight Foodbank announce ‘Cans For Cowes Week Challenge’ and celebrate £14,000 in donations. Red Funnel and their Charity of the Year, the Isle of Wight Foodbank have announced a challenge to collect 1,000 cans of food by 2nd August. Cans can be dropped off at any Isle of Wight foodbank […]

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19 Jul 24

£1 Foodbank Clothing Sale.

This weekend – 20th July…. A special one off… ALL Items only £1 and fill a children’s bag for £3! Stock will be in and out of season. Sale only (no refreshments or tombola). Extra parking is available at Park & Ride. Cowes Foodbank, Love Lane, Cowes. #FashionToFood #isleofwight #foodbank

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12 Jul 24

Summer Music Madness 2024

  On 11th July 2024 we hosted ‘Summer Music Madness’ at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport. Over 70 people attended and we raised over £780, thanks to your support.   A special thank you to all those who volunteered for the night.  

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14 Jun 23

Pittis donation provides supermarket vouchers

A huge thank you to Pittis for partnering with us by donating £100 every time you booked your free valuation. With the money donated, we have been able to provide a supermarket voucher with every foodbank emergency food parcel allowing people to also buy fresh food etc. This has been wonderfully received. A team from […]

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13 Jan 23

Asda Green Token – Vote here

With the annual food inflation jumping to 13.3% in December, where we supported over 900 people, and the cost of living crisis continuing to rise, we appreciate the timing of the Asda Green Token Giving Fund. Asda is supporting thousands of local good causes, and the new voting period has just began. PLEASE VOTE HERE […]

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14 Nov 22

Mid Year Stats Apr-Sept 2022

On Thursday 10th November, we released our stats for emergency food parcel distribution from April to September 2022, which shed light on the level of need for the Isle of Wight Foodbank in our local community. The stark new figures reveal that we provided 2635 emergency food parcels to people who couldn’t afford the essentials […]

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1 Nov 22

Southern Water Drop In Sessions

Southern Water are very kindly providing Drop In sessions at our Foodbanks to provide practical advice on reducing your water bill. If you would like to know more and receive one of their practical and free goody bags to help you reduce your water bill, drop into our foodbank cafe’s and have a cuppa and […]

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25 Oct 22

Monthly Clothing Sale Reopening 29.10.22

We are very excited to be re-opening our monthly clothing sales after being closed for two years due to the pandemic. It was the right decision to make back in 2020 as it allowed us to focus on keeping our volunteers safe, and those using the foodbank, as we continued to support local people in […]

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27 Jun 22

Southern Water Drop In Sessions

Southern Water are very kindly providing Drop In sessions at our Foodbanks to provide practical advice on reducing your water bill. Thanks to Stuart (pictured above) who joined us today at our Cowes foodbank. If you would like to know more and receive one of their practical and free goody bags to help you reduce […]

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10 Jun 22

Preloved Clothing – Opening Soon

We are excited to be opening up our Textile Recycling Centre again after two years. Covid saw us needing the space to socially distance our volunteers to keep them safe. We also closed our doors to the general public, pre-packing food for collection outside our buildings. Now this has changed, we hope to be able […]

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