Eastwood food bank calls for donations ahead of Christmas as demand rises
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Due to issuing so many parcels recently and demand increasing, Eastwood’s food bank is in serious need of more donations from the local community as soon as possible.
Eastwood Volunteer Bureau, which runs the food bank, posted on social media this week: “We currently need sugar, tea bags, mackerel, squash, men’s shower gel, men’s deodorant, biscuits, tinned rice pudding, hot dogs, tinned potatoes and toilet roll.
“Anything else is very gratefully received.”
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Hide AdPeople can drop off their donations from Monday to Thursday, from 9am until 2pm at Eastwood Volunteer Bureau, Wellington Place, Eastwood, NG16 3GB.
Alternatively, can contact the food bank by messaging through its Facebook page here.
More people are relying on food banks in Eastwood and Kimberley than they were before the pandemic, new figures show.
Across Broxtowe, 2,591 emergency food parcels – containing three or seven days' worth of supplies – were handed out by the Trussell Trust between April and September.
This was up from 2,099 during the same period in 2019, but below the 7,541 handed out last year.