News

30 Sep 19

Capita donation

We were delighted to meet Nicola, Emma-Lea, Lucy and Maria from Capita Travel & Events, Blackbrook business park, last week. As part of their ‘go local’ volunteering week they collected 37.5 kgs of food for us for which we are hugely grateful. Pictured here with our Manager, Sue Weightman.  

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12 Sep 19

Big Thank You

We had a wonderful response to our appeal for more donations as our uptake has risen by 6% since last year.  The Somerset County Gazette have published this article expressing our thanks.  Do click on this link if you would like to read it.     This is what the Foodbank looks like after 4.7 tonnes of […]

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25 Jul 19

Social action project helping our community

  We were delighted to have so many hands to help us out this morning.  Well done to all in Team 6 of the National Citizens Service in Taunton who came in to pack school boxes as part of their social action project to help the community.

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1 Jul 19

The power of social media

And the feel good stories just keep on coming in, thanks to our amazing community. This time it is about one of our Facebook friends who, sadly, is housebound with a chronic illness. Last Christmas she took part in our Reverse Advent initiative and had a friend deliver her donations. She then started following us […]

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28 Jun 19

BBC Somerset radio interview

A charming interview with our newly weds on BBC Somerset from yesterday’s Claire Carter breakfast show. The interview starts at 2.18.31 and ends at 2.24.04. And Michele is right, every month this year we have given out substantially more then we have received so thank you to all who keep our stocks refreshed.        

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18 Jun 19

Congratulation to the newly weds

We have had another amazing example of people thinking outside the box with their donations. Michele Binding and Matthew Ambrose got married last month and, instead of wedding presents, asked for donations to the Foodbank. This meant a wonderful donation of 32.5 kgs. Thank you so much and many congratulations to you both and best […]

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2 May 19

Love In The House! evening of Arts & Entertainment

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25 Apr 19

The Trussell Trust End of Year statistics

4759 emergency food supplies given to local people in last year, Taunton Foodbank reveals. Taunton Foodbank provided three day emergency food supplies to 4759 local people between April 2018 and March 2019. Of this number, 1784 went to children. The local food bank’s figures feed into a larger national picture with a record increase in […]

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16 Apr 19

Bunnies Galore!

  Many thanks to the Bicycle Chain for donating a warren of chocolate bunnies to the Taunton Foodbank today.  They are going to make a lot of people’s Easter very hoppy (sorry).    

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13 Apr 19

Another donation from our community

We received 47.4 kgs of food from those wonderful people at WJ South West in Wellington. We can never say it enough – thank you so much for helping us to help others.

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