Milton Keynes Food Bank has started the new year with an urgent appeal for food donations.
The reasons people need to use the The Food Bank are many, and include family crises, loss of employment or benefits, coming out of hospital, and debt problems.
The charity, which began operating in the new city in 2004 in response to growing food poverty, now supports more than 5000 families each year - and demand is growing.
The Food Bank offers short term, crisis food support, while also ensuring people receive help with their underlying issues, by working with social care and health agencies.
The team is urgently in need of the following:
- Tinned Meat
- Tinned Fish
- Long Life Milk
- Cereal
- Biscuits
- Juice or Squash
- Tinned Pulses
- Spreads – Jams, Peanut Butter, or Chocolate Spread
- Tinned Pasta
- Pasta Sauce
- Tinned Fruit
- Dried Rice – 500g
- Tinned Veg
- Dried Pasta – 500g
- Tinned Soups
- Tinned Tomatoes
- Savoury Snacks/Cereal Bars
- Tea
- Sugar
- Rice Pudding/Custard
- Baked Beans
> If you can help, you can drop items off at its supermarket collection points at Tesco (Wolverton and Kingston), Morrisons (CMK and Westcroft), Sainsbury's (CMK, Shenley Church End, Olney, Willen and Brooklands), Asda (Bletchley), Waitrose (Oakgrove), Aldi (Kingston and Stantonbury) and Lidl (Newport Pagnell).
For more information, contact the team on 01908 322800 or drop an email to office@mkfoodbank.org.uk
