About our Foodbank

Volunteers from Widnes Foodbank stand around a crate of food.

Our foodbank is a project founded by local churches and community groups, working together towards stopping hunger in our local area. We believe nobody in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis.

Over 100 people signed up to volunteer on our awareness-raising night on 6th September 2012. We then opened our first distribution centre at The Foundry church in December 2012 with help from Cllr Eddie Jones.

Today we have over 200 volunteers on our list and three locations around the town: our Crossing Point foodbank centre (where people with a referral voucher come to receive their food parcels), our warehouse and our office.