News

3 Apr 20

GOOD FRIDAY CLOSURE

PLEASE NOTE WE WILL BE CLOSED ON GOOD FRIDAY – 10 APRIL.

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3 Apr 20

NEWS FROM A FOODBANK!

A huge thank you to everyone of you who have kept on donating during these difficult and worrying times. We have had a big surge in financial donations which is fantastic and gives us options to maintain the warehouse and buy food. And you still manage to contribute food despite the lack of some items […]

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3 Apr 20

Crimestoppers in the West Country alert!

Crimestoppers in the West Country have sent this to us to pass onto you. Please be very careful of scams – Report fraud or attempted fraud by contacting Action Fraud at www.actionfraud.police.uk or call 0300 123 2040. Please be careful out there!  

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31 Mar 20

New Government School voucher scheme

Please note that those whose children were getting free school meals will be covered by the government’s Covid-19 voucher scheme as of next week (6 April).   Each family is to get £15 for each child from the government. This will then be in replacement of our support.   After that we will only accept […]

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26 Mar 20

IMPORTANT MESSAGE RE FUTURE WORKING OF FOODBANKS IN OUR AREA

The Taunton Foodbank board of trustees are looking at policy and strategic measures to ensure that the foodbank is able to continue to meet the needs of people in our community. They have been considering how they can best do that whilst ensuring the safety of their volunteers and clients whilst also following the Government […]

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19 Mar 20

Schools’ Closure

For clarification, Taunton Foodbank and its hubs’ policy at this time in relation to school referrals is as follows:   Families who are really in need and who have reduced income need can still be referred to us.   However, we cannot help everyone and we are trusting SENCOs and PFSW to use their discretion […]

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18 Mar 20

Taunton Foodbank Press Release

Taunton Foodbank thanks local community for ‘incredible’ response to Coronavirus crisis Taunton Foodbank has been providing food to people in crisis situations for almost 8 years and thanks to the generous support of local people we are in a good position to continue that service during the coronavirus epidemic. We are currently planning to continue […]

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18 Mar 20

Our Covid 19 practices summary as of Wednesday 18 March

Rather than issue individual news items, we thought it easier to summarise on one page what we have done so far! We are trying to keep abreast of daily government guidelines and will keep you in the loop as and when we make changes to our system. DONATIONS: We have noticed an understandable increase in […]

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16 Mar 20

Coronavirus update as of 16 March 2020

Juat an update on where we currently stand re stock and volunteers: Our stock levels are OK at the moment but please still keep on donating. In the coming weeks we may find a number of our volunteers can no longer attend so we may have a shortage of people to pack boxes and will […]

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21 Dec 19

CHRISTMAS WEEK OPENING HOURS

Please note that this week we will be open on Tuesday 24 December between 1400 – 1500 (an hour shorter than normal) then again on Friday 27 December between 1400-1600 If you have a food voucher and need food, please come along then.  We would hate for you to be caught out by shorter opening time on Tuesday. […]

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