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Wadebridge, & Foodbank — Latest News Winter 2017

THANK YOU. With your support we provided festive food boxes to 70 local families in crisis to help them at Christmas time. We are currently in need of food donations and running low on long-life milk, long-life fruit juice, tinned tomatoes, tinned potatoes and toiletries.

If you would like to donate to us or become a Foodbank Friend & make a regular donation, please contact us on 01208 815374 It costs over £2,000 every or complete the form overleaf. Without month to run our Foodbank financial support & food donations we struggle to provide the valuable service we offer in our community. We are also looking for storage space in the local area. Since April 2016 we have fed 2,845 people in crisis and distributed over 20 tonnes of food. On average we provide 1,525 meals every week. “Food parcels are crucial in families lives in times of crisis. They allow money to be spent on other bills so that the family can work through their crisis without the pressure of having to buy food to feed their family” PSA, Bodmin

Wadebridge Foodbank, Unit 2 Trevanson Street, Wadebridge, . PL27 7AR. Tel: 01208 815374 www.wadebridgefoodbank.org / [email protected] Registered Charity Number: 1166301 ( & Wales) DONATE TO OUR FOODBANK Foodbank Drop-in Times Bodmin WHEN YOU SHOP AT THE CO-OP Bodmin Christian Fellowship Berrycoombe Road Bodmin. PL31 2NS Mon & Weds 1pm-3pm

Camelford St Thomas’ Church Tuesdays 2pm-4pm Wadebridge Unit 2, Trevanson Street Wadebridge PL27 7AR Mon-Thurs 10am-1pm

We’d love you to select our Foodbank as your chosen charity. Every time you shop at the Wadebridge Co-op or use a Co-op service, a 1% donation will be given to us (until March 2017). If you're not a member, please join and support us!

Behind the beauty of Cornwall, people are living in poverty. Over 70 shopping trolleys worth of FINANCIAL SUPPORT AVAILABLE IN BODMIN food were donated at our Tesco If you are struggling financially, we can help provide the knowledge Collection in December helping to & skills to get on top of your finances with a Money Box course. If feed families in crisis. Thanks to you are a tenant or know someone who would benefit from some everyone who helped at the support, a course will be starting soon in Bodmin. For more info, collection and gave a donation. give us a call at Wadebridge Foodbank on 01208 815374.

Save the date for our Join us at this year’s Dinner & Dance Fun Camping Weekend Wadebridge Foodbank Charity Fundraiser at Mother Ivey’s Bay Holiday Park Saturday 6th May Fri 16th –Sun 18th June 2017 at the Pavilion Centre, Royal Cornwall Showground  More info & tickets available soon... If you would like to support us and the work we do at the Foodbank, please detach & return the slip below;

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Please make cheques payable to Wadebridge Foodbank & Storehouse & return to Unit 2 Trevanson Street, Wadebridge, Cornwall. PL27 7AR