News

2 Oct 23

Give Today – making donating easier!

Give Today is a website supporting charities, such as foodbanks, to get the donations that they need for their service users. You can see our page from this link here: https://www.givetoday.co.uk/oldhamfoodbank/ We will regularly update our page with our latest needs. All you need to do, is purchase items from the page, and they will […]

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2 Oct 23

Harvest festival + donation drive

At Oldham Foodbank, we are experiencing high demand for support with food and other essentials. For this reason, we are reaching out to the local community, to encourage you to run a harvest festival, or other-themed collection of donations.  Harvest is a time when we can be thankful for the food we have, and give […]

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19 May 23

Can you donate food to Oldham Foodbank?

At Oldham Foodbank, we rely on donations from our local community so we can keep serving those experiencing crisis in the Oldham area. With a higher demand than usual, we need all the help we can get! By clicking on our Donate food page, you will be able to see an up to date list […]

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13 Jan 23

Volunteer drivers needed! (Using own vehicle)

Oldham Foodbank is on the lookout for volunteer drivers, to help deliver food parcels to people in Oldham. This would involve collection of food parcels from our warehouse in Derker to be delivered around the Oldham area. Drivers shifts are 10-1pm/1pm-5pm, Monday-Friday. If interested contact Tom on [email protected] or 07394 802524. Thanks!

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13 Jan 23

Driver’s assistant volunteers needed (No drivers license required)

Oldham Foodbank is on the lookout for Driver’s assistants to support our Volunteer Drivers with delivering food parcels. In this role, you would help the driver to deliver the parcels to people in Oldham, and help with navigating. We are looking for people for this role Monday-Friday, for either an AM shift (10-1pm) or PM […]

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9 Jan 23

Warehouse volunteers needed – Could you help us?

Oldham Foodbank is looking for new volunteers to help in our warehouse. So what’s involved? Taking in donations Weighing donations Sorting & storing donations Moving donations/restocking shop for parcels to be packed Can you offer us some time (9-1pm/1-5pm, Monday-Friday) to help in our warehouse? You will be joining the team at Oldham Foodbank, working […]

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5 Jan 23

Happy Holidays, Christmas and New Year from Oldham Foodbank!

Big thank you to everyone who has supported us in 2022, whether by volunteering, donating, collecting, referring, helping others or just spreading the word – we couldn’t do it without you! Hope everyone has a fantastic end to the year, and we hope to see you in 2023!

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30 Nov 22

Oldham Foodbank & Tesco Food Drive 1st-3rd December

Oldham Foodbank and Tesco will be holding a food drive at the 3 closest stores: Huddersfield Rd, Featherstall Rd & Failsworth Thursday 1st December to Saturday 3rd December. This will hopefully give us a boost of food and other donations in the run up to Christmas, so we can keep supporting people experiencing crisis around […]

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17 Nov 22

Oldham Foodbank: Can you organise a collection of donations?

Oldham Foodbank relies more than ever on the fantastic local community, to keep stocks up so we can continue to provide emergency food parcels to those in need. We need your help – if you can organise a collection of donations on your street, with your family, in your community or at a workplace, we […]

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17 Nov 22

Oldham Foodbank: In need of drivers & van drivers Nov 22

Since early 2020, Oldham Foodbank has been running as a delivery service, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Drivers are essential. They deliver the food parcels to service users who live within the Oldham area. Drivers need to have their own vehicle and be fully insured. It is possible to get […]

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