News | Oswestry and Borders Foodbank

7 Jan 26

Shropshire Council’s Winter Outreach Wellbeing coming to local areas Tuesday 13th January

The Community Wellbeing Outreach Team (CWOT) are excited to announce they will be visiting; Maesbury / Peate’s Mill / Kinnerley as part of the WOW (Winter Outreach Wellbeing) Project! They will be in these areas at these times on Tuesday 13th January: Maesbury – parked at the Navigation Inn car park 10.15-11.30 Peate’s Mill […]

23 Dec 25

A Merry Christmas Thank you

This Christmas, Oswestry & Borders Foodbank would like to say a huge thank you to the community, for all the wonderful donations of food, toiletries, gifts and money. Thank you to the following businesses & charities who have made financial and food donations leading up to Christmas: Chirk Castle, Liberty Gas, Vogue Roofing, STAR housing, West Mercia Police welfare fund, Lutley […]

27 Nov 25

Tesco Winter Food Collection

The Tesco Winter Food Collection starts today! Tesco Ellesmere will be collecting much-needed food donations from today until Saturday! Last December we provided 286 emergency food parcels as well as 251 Christmas Hampers to local people in need. We really need your donations to make sure we can support everyone who needs us this Winter. […]

17 Nov 25

Reverse Grotto at Chirk Castle NT

This Christmas, Chirk Castle NT will once again be holding a reverse Santa’s grotto in aid of Oswestry and Borders Foodbank. If you are visiting over the festive season, please take an item of food with you or pop a donation in the bucket or online via the QR code. Thank you for supporting us […]

5 Nov 25

Harvest 2025

The 2025 Harvest donation totals are in! 51 Schools, Churches and community groups from within Oswestry and the surrounding areas have raised an incredible 3.12 tonnes of food and toiletries for local people facing hardship! To everyone who has given so generously we want say a massive THANKYOU for your support. Many of you have […]

22 Oct 25

Harvest Highlights

The team have had a very busy few weeks processing 38 harvest donations from schools, churches and community groups- and there are still more to come! A huge thank you to everyone who has given to the foodbank throughout Harvest. Every donation, big or small, makes a HUGE difference to individuals and families facing hardship. […]

1 Oct 25

Foodbank Fortnight starts today!

📅 Today: Wednesday 1st October marks the start of Food Bank Fortnight! @Bank the Food are modernising the harvest tradition. Local schools, families and communities are coming together to support food banks through the free BanktheFood app. Will you join us? Once downloaded, you’ll know just what’s needed. No guess work! ✅ Download the free […]

25 Sep 25

Fraud update from West Mercia Police- 23/9/25

WEEKLY FRAUD UPDATE FROM WEST MERCIA POLICE – ECONOMIC CRIME UNIT – 23/09/2025 COMMON TERMS – ONLINE FRAUD As the Internet has evolved, so has its misuse by online criminals in defrauding their victims. In the course of that new words and phrases have evolved to describe the methods used. These are often used […]

10 Sep 25

“1 in 6 children in the UK went hungry last year”- Trussell

Please read the latest article from the Guardian, interviewing Trussell on Hunger in the UK over the last year: Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent | Poverty | The Guardian As a Trussell Foodbank, we are committed to fighting the injustice that is poverty and hunger, and are […]

23 Jul 25

Bankuet is 6 years old!

We are joining with Bankuet as they celebrate 6 years of service. Bankuet is an online shop dedicated to helping foodbanks across the whole of the UK. You can learn more about how they have impacted the work of foodbanks and the lives of local people facing hardship here: https://vimeo.com/1099306139 All donations received via Bankuet […]

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