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5 Sep 22

New partner: City Taxis/City Grab 🚕 🍜

Team City Grab Help Out at S6 Foodbank To raise awareness for ‘National Foodbank Day’, last week local food delivery platform City Grab, spent the morning volunteering with us at S6 Foodbank. Sacha Skinner, Marketing Manager at City Taxis and City Grab, said: “It was extremely humbling visiting S6 Foodbank and not at all as […]

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12 Jul 22

Thanks to Malin Bridge Primary!

Huge thanks to the wonderful School Council from Malin Bridge Primary School for organising a bake-sale fundraiser to support us! Our manager, Chris, went to meet the children earlier this year, to talk about the work we do in their community. The children wanted to do something positive (and delicious) to help, and were ably […]

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11 Jul 22

Meet volunteer, Joseph

Joseph says, “I’ve been volunteering for about 9 months, it’s just I wanted to do something that helps people and you can really see how you’re helping people here which makes me feel good, and it needs doing!” Whatever your motivation, if you’re looking to support a Sheffield charity, we’d be glad of any help […]

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11 Jul 22

Meet volunteer, Anne

“I love it, having the privilege of talking to people, and having people talk to me about themselves and their lives, it’s just wonderful. I’ve experienced through people the fragility of our so called civilisation. We do have a welfare system, but it is set up in such a way as to be very difficult […]

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11 Jul 22

Meet volunteer, Nick

Nick has been volunteering with us for about 9 years. He’s almost part of the furniture! Nick says, “We are in a very different place now to where we were 9 years ago. And the reason we’ve got foodbanks is to help people who’ve had an unfortunate turn of events in their life, and that’s […]

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11 Jul 22

Meet volunteer, Christine

Meet Christine, one of our longest standing volunteers 🙋‍♀️ Christine says, “I come here because I’ve got a passion for people. I hate the thought of people being hungry. We all wish that the foodbank wasn’t here, but because it’s here we love coming, meeting people and helping them to move on and get what […]

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11 May 22

Deliveries, 2022 style!

Foodbank delivery, 2022 style. 40 foot lorry packed full of 22 tonnes of food. Now being sorted by our brilliant team of volunteers, ready to be distributed across our city-wide foodbank network by our supporters Bramwell Relocation who kindly loan their delivery vans for free. To everyone who makes this possible, week in, week out; […]

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4 May 22

Referrals hit 50,000+

Sheffield S6 Foodbank supported over 50,000 people with emergency food parcels between April 2021-March 2022 Sheffield S6 Foodbank, which runs 11 foodbank sites across Sheffield, has revealed its referral figures for the past year. Between April 2021 and March 2022 the foodbank supported over 50,000 people for the first time in its history, 50,828 to be […]

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4 May 22

SWFC and their fans supporting the whole city 🦉

Huge thanks to everyone at Sheffield Wednesday for organising a donation drive and bucket collection for us at the Owls’ final home game of the 21-22 season. Read about their support here: https://www.swfc.co.uk/news/2022/april/s6-foodbank-at-hillsborough-on-saturday/ The Sheffield Wednesday Armed Forces Supporters Club volunteered on site for the collection, and also raffled off a signed home shirt to […]

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21 Apr 22

Another partner comes onboard 🚅

Big thanks to Shan, Charlotte, and the whole team at @VolkerRailUK  & @StoryContractng  for kicking off their support for us over 2022. The team will be collecting donations, fundraising, and #volunteering with us. Great to have you onboard!  

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