Okehampton Community Food Bank

by Okehampton Community Kitchen CIC in Okehampton, Devon, United Kingdom

Okehampton Community Food Bank

Total raised £340

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Ensuring people get the help they need after the Baptist Church foodbank closes, working with others to join together as a community.

by Okehampton Community Kitchen CIC in Okehampton, Devon, United Kingdom

Our team were approached by the Trustees of Okehampton Baptist Church Foodbank as they are closing and don't want people to have nowhere to go. We already run a rural foodbank so this now means we serve rural communities and the town. Yikes! We have zero funding to do this, we've always used our catering services to fund our activities. That isn't even remotely enough to cover another estimated 70 to 75 families the Trustees have said could be passed to us from next week with a food bill of over £1000 a week. That figure is unsustainable unless we get help, we receive less than a tenth of the donations that the church food bank had because we sell catering services to fund our existing work. We have never needed donations other than for specific projects. That now changes! 

Okehampton Community Food Bank is a charity going through the registration process but until processed is founded and managed by Okehampton Community Kitchen CIC for accountability, transparency and to ensure it complies to all legal requirements. All money raised is ringfenced only for foodbank.

We have the date of 12th July to open. Our premesis at 3 East Street, Okehampton has been gutted and turned into a foodbank and we aim to open every day of the week for 2 hours in the daytime and 1 hour at least in the evening. We just need volunteers and food plus some regular donors to help. 

Thank you. Sadly food banks are really struggling yet urgently needed. As a community we can do this, as just us we can't.  Community is everything.

Chris Connor, Rev. Maggy Whitehouse and Kevin Ball, Rebecca Green


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