The Oswestry and Borders foodbank has registered with BanktheFood.
BanktheFood is a registered charity (Charity Commission for England and Wales Number 1194167) that has a mission to ensure food banks always have exactly what they need when they need it.
Food banks often struggle with effectively communicating their real-time supply and demand needs to their donors.
Social media posts or notices in supermarkets, quickly go out of date or go unnoticed and as a result, food banks can be inundated with one item or have little of another.
Regularly updating their real-time needs to their local community, can be a cumbersome admin task, which takes food bank volunteers away from their crucial work of collecting and distributing food.
BanktheFood hopes to change this through an innovative free app that links food banks to donors at the most crucial time; when donors are at the supermarket.
The app is available on both Apple and Android phones, is free to use, and always will be.
To learn more about BanktheFood and to download the app visit https://www.bankthefood.org/.