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Donate to local food banks

Food banks need your help, now more than ever.

Next time you do your grocery or food shop, please remember your local food banks.

How to donate

You can use the food bank donation boxes at your local supermarket, donate directly to your local food bank or make a donation online.

What to donate this season and where

Bournemouth Foodbank

Cartoned juice, UHT milk, tinned fruit, tinned pudding, tinned meat.

They can be dropped here: Bournemouth Foodbank

If generous people would rather donate cash (as lots now do their shopping online), they can do so here: Donate online to Bournemouth Foodbank

Find out more about Bournemouth Foodbank

Christchurch Foodbank

Christchurch Food bank are putting together 'Reverse Advent' Christmas boxes containing the following. You can collect the whole list by yourself or part of a team.

Advent calendars, Christmas biscuits, Haribo (or similar), Christmas tree chocolates, Malteasers, chocolate Matchsticks, crisps, hot chocolate, chocolate coins, jelly cubes, cranberry sauce, packet bread sauce, Christmas pudding, custard, cheese crackers, chutney, mince pies, fruit squash/juice, shortbread, selection box, savoury snacks, stuffing, a Christmas treat (no nuts or alcohol).

Please decorate your reverse advent, but do not seal, as will need to be checked.

They can be dropped off at Christchurch Food Bank+, The Old Chapel, 67a Purewell, Christchurch, BH23 1EH

Find out more about Christchurch Foodbank

Poole Foodbank – Jimmy’s Place

UHT milk, tinned minced beef, tinned beef casserole/stew, tinned chicken casserole, tinned chicken in white sauce, tinned hotdogs, tinned potatoes, small jars of coffee, tea, crisps, ketchup/brown sauce, squash/juice, shampoo and conditioner

Donations to collection box outside M&S in Dolphin Centre or Wesley Cafe @The Spire, High Street, Poole.

Find out more about Poole Foodbank

Citygate Community Hub Foodbank

We need support for our Christmas Hamper Appeal in partnership with Bournemouth Foodbank and other local agencies - partners, drivers and sponsorship welcome. Find out how you can get involved: Christmas Hamper Appeal

Hope for Food

This Christmas Hope for Food in Bournemouth are aiming to provide 500 families in need with a Festive food parcel containing the following:

Tinned tomatoes, tinned veg, tinned potatoes/mash, stuffing, tinned fruit, custard, rice pudding, mince pies, tinned meat, sweet biscuits, selection boxes, Christmas pudding, cranberry sauce, gravy, sauce for rice, pasta sauce, savoury biscuits/crisps, tinned soup, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, jam/marmalade/spread, tinned pasta, instant packets rice/noodles/pasta, ketchup/brownsauce, mayonnaise, packet soup, spaghetti, rice, baked beans.

Please deliver festive food parcel to Hope for Food on 30 November Unit 13 West Howe Industrial Estate, Elliott Road, Bournemouth BH11 8LZ

Find out more about Hope for Food

Poole Waste Not Want Not

Biscuits, UHT milk, baked beans, coffee, tea, toiletries, and any festive donations ready for our hamper boxes

Donate to 70 High Street, Poole BH15 1DA

Find out more about Poole Waste Not Want Not

Moor Community Food – Turlin Moor, Poole

Tea, coffee, pasta sauces, rice sauces, tinned carrots, sweetcorn and potatoes, baked beans and fish. Rice pudding, custard, biscuits, jams and marmalades. We would also like wrapped sweets for the Turlin Moor Santa Parade

Donations can be delivered to St Gabriel's Church Hall, Keysworth Road, Poole BH16 5BH on Tuesdays 9.30am to 11.30am.

Find out more about Moor Community Food