Volunteer roles within the foodbank

• Help on Supermarket donations days

  Working as part of a team of 2 to 3 people, answering questions from the general public about the Foodbank, collecting contributions and explaining about the work of the Foodbank. These donation days take place about once every 4 months.

• Fundraising

  Help is needed to distribute fundraising leaflets and help on fundraising events. Individuals or groups are welcome to arrange their own fundraising event for the Foodbank.

• Collecting food donations at busy times

  There are busy times in the foodbank calendar when extra help is needed to collect food donations. A car would be useful for this role.

How Businesses can help the Foodbank

Businesses can help in the following ways:

• Consider a regular or one-off financial donation
• Organise a food collection in the workplace
• Organise a fundraising activity, for example a cake sale
• Allow employees to donate a couple of hours of their time to help at fundraising events such as supermarket donation days