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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 1d

HARVEST 2025🌾🥫
Here’s our next Harvest shopping list if you’re able to donate an item at large Tesco and Asda stores in Medway, Morrisons Strood or Co-op Walderslade.
THANK YOU for helping us to reach out to those in need in our community. 💚
#Harvest2025
#CommunityKindness

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 7d

We’re asking for kind help again Medway community.
We need support with updating electric, asbestos and water/legionella reports at our warehouse. Any companies out there that could help us at a charity rate please?
Contact [email protected]
#ESG
#CSR

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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 11d

Every day the two-child limit pushes 109 children into hunger.

The UK gov PROMISED to end the need for emergency food.

So we're backing@savechildrenuk.bsky.social to greet MPs to the Labour Party Conference with a message they cannot miss. 👀

Save the Children UK have put a campaign message on a huge billboard opposite Liverpool Lime Street to greet MPs as they arrive to the Labour Party Conference. The billboard shows a photo of a child holding up a red rosette with the words 'change' on it. Text on top reads: 'Wasn't the point of winning to lift kids out of poverty? Scrap the two-child limit. Save the Children.'

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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed! 👍 👇 Be kind by supporting Medway Foodbank through the @bankuet.bsky.social website where you can donate money that we can use to purchase much needed stock for our food parcels.
THANK YOU 💚

🚚 Bankuet @bankuet.bsky.social · 9d

A study found that kindness is one of the most powerful tools we have for our own wellbeing 🙌

So maybe the most radical act of self-care isn’t just looking after ourselves… It’s choosing to care for others too ❤️

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 8d

📣 NEW SHOPPING LIST 📣
HARVEST25 🌾🥫
Here’s our Harvest shopping list of all the items that we need the most currently. You will also see short Harvest shopping lists appearing over the next couple of months.
THANKS FOR ALL THE KIND SUPPORT💚
#CommunityKindness
#Harvest2025

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 8d

📣 HARVEST IS GO! 🌾 🥫
Here’s our next Harvest shopping list if you’re able to donate an item at large Tesco and Asda stores in Medway, Morrisons Strood or Co-op Walderslade.
THANK YOU for helping us to reach out to those in need in our community. 💚
#Harvest2025
#CommunityKindness

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 15d

📣 HARVEST IS GO! 🌾🥫HARVEST WAREHOUSE CAMPAIGN - are you able to help please? 👇
🌾 Support our Harvest Warehouse Campaign by donating through our giving platform: cafdonate.cafonline.org/29100
We’re looking to raise £20,000 to help towards the lease of our warehouse on Medway City Estate.

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 21d

Our team is back in Morrisons for the last day of the food drive, as part of the national Morrisons food collection this week.
Come and find us, and we’d be so very grateful if you’re able to donate one item.
Help us to help those in need.
Huge thanks to all the volunteers! 😇
#CommunityKindness

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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 24d

❗ 14 MILLION people are facing hunger and hardship in the UK. In 2025. In one of the richest countries in the world.

We don’t need more food banks – we need change. Repost if you agree.

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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 23d

The two-child limit is pushing children to hardship, punishing them for having siblings.

If the UK government doesn't act, they risk forcing more families to food banks. Read more ⤵️
https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/poverty/2025/09/we-must-scrap-the-two-child-limit

We must scrap the two-child limit

If the government does not change course, it risks increasing hardship and forcing more families to food banks.

www.newstatesman.com

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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 22d

This week’s HARVEST 25 🌾🥫shopping list - can you help us by donating an item at the large Tesco and Asda in Medway, Morrisons Strood or Co-op Walderslade?
Help us to help others.
THANK YOU 💚

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 23d

Our team is back in Morrisons store Strood today as part of the national Morrisons food drive this week.
If you are able to donate an item we’d be very grateful.
Help us to help those in need. THANK YOU so much for all the kind support yesterday. 💚

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 24d

📣 HARVEST IS GO! 🌾🥫
Harvest is such an important time to be grateful to all those that work in the food and farming industry, and to be thankful for all the food we receive. 🙏
We reach out to support those who are struggling to afford food.
We’ll be sharing ways you can help us to help others.

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · 24d

You’ll find our teams at Morrisons in Strood today, tomorrow and Friday collecting donated items as part of the national Morrisons’ food drive.
Thanks to all in the store for their support and to kind volunteers helping us. 😇
We’d be grateful if you’re able to donate an item. 💚
#communitykindness

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Sep 10

We’re on the look out for volunteers to join our waiting list. We sometimes need cover across our 9 foodbank centres, warehouse, and for supermarket collections that take place throughout the year.
Contact our Volunteer Co-ordinator to find out more: [email protected]
THANKS 🙏

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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Sep 10

📣 KIND PEOPLE OF MEDWAY, URGENT HELP NEEDED PLS!
We’re in desperate need of more PASTA SAUCE.
Donations can be made at:
🛒 large Tesco and Asda stores in Medway
🛒 Morrisons Strood
🛒 Co-op Walderslade
📣 WE’D REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD SHARE SHARE SHARE THIS PLEASE 🙏

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BanktheFood @bankthefood.bsky.social · Sep 4

The BanktheFood app community has grown to an incredible community of over 120,000 users! 🙌
Your support is making a real difference in the fight against food poverty.
Together, we're helping local food banks provide for those in need, one smart donation at a time.

Thank you !

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · Sep 4

“We're seeing more people trapped in severe and sustained poverty, turning to food banks because they have nowhere else to go" @helenbarnard.bsky.social

📝 The cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission report is out today. It would lift 4.2 million people out of poverty. 1/2

Scrap two-child benefit cap to help lift 4m people out of poverty, government urged

Exclusive: Cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission says abolishing limit would be part of its ‘once in a generation’ plan

www.theguardian.com

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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Good to see the Green Party's new leader - Zach Polanski - raising the issue that people are struggling to put food on the table.

We CAN end hunger by ensuring everyone can access secure jobs and affordable homes, and updating our social security system.

📸credit: BBC Breakfast

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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Sep 5

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🚚 Bankuet @bankuet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Food banks across the UK are reporting the same heartbreaking trend: more and more people in full or part-time work are being forced to turn to them just to survive 📈

Give to your local food bank through Bankuet today 👉 bankuet.co.uk/givenow

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you @westonfdn.bsky.social for your grant support, helping us to help others. 💚

Garfield Weston Foundation @westonfdn.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌍✨Today is #InternationalDayOfCharity. We'd like to thank all our amazing partners for their incredible work supporting so many diverse causes across the UK. 💙 Thank you for all that you do! 🌟

#DayofCharity #UKCharities #ThirdSector #ThankYou #GarfieldWestonFoundation

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Sophie Claire @sophieclaire.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're coming to the end of the school holidays and for families relying on foodbanks this is a really difficult time of year. Plus foodbank supplies run low because many people are away. Please consider donating to your local foodbank today. Someone somewhere will be really grateful.🙏

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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Sep 4

BE A FOODBANK CHAMPION! 🏆
Can you help us keep our food parcels stocked please so that we can help those in need?
This week we’re needing
✅ Pasta sauce PLEASE
Donations can be made at:
🛒 large Tesco and Asda stores in Medway
🛒 Morrisons Strood
🛒 Co-op Walderslade
#foodbankchampion

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Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks to those organisations becoming foodbank champions 🏆 for us. Get in touch, and we’ll ask your org to only collect one item for us, easier to remember and helps us keep core items stocked.
Office: 01634 757057 or [email protected]
Help us to help others. 💚

Medway Foodbank @mfb26.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can find Medway Foodbank on the Bankuet website. There you can donate funds to help us purchase much needed stock for our foodbank parcels. Thank you 🙏

🚚 Bankuet @bankuet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Food bank use didn’t peak during Covid. It’s peaking now, in 2025.

Communities rallied together during lockdown as the surge in food bank use was seen as a national crisis. This crisis is far from over, and we need to act like it.

👉 bankuet.co.uk/givenow