News

17 Jan 23

Statistics for 2022

Brecon Foodbank opened in July 2014.  Since then we have given out 3511 food parcels.  We have fed 8267 people, comprising 5093 adults and 3174 children.  We have been given 104,031.1kg food & toiletries and have given out 100,695.3kg food & toiletries. In 2021 we gave out 597 food parcels.  We fed 1475 people, comprising […]

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2 Dec 22

Christmas 2022-3

We will be closed between Christmas and New Year.  Our parcels on Friday 23rd will, as usual, contain food for at least a week, but for  anyone who is in need of food during the week we are closed, a few agencies that are open will hold emergency bags.

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24 Aug 22

Thank you!

A big thank you to all who supported us at the Morrison’s Food Drive on Monday. We collected just over 620kg food and toiletries, plus £105.  We are tremendously grateful to all who donated and were so friendly and encouraging to us, and also to Morrison’s for hosting the event. We do need donations to […]

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19 Aug 22

Fill a Parking Space for Brecon Foodbank

On Monday 22nd August 2022, Morrison’s Brecon is hosting a Food Drive event for us; they are hoping shoppers will help them to fill a parking space for Brecon Foodbank. This will be running from 10am to 4pm so if you can, please come along, collect a shopping list and select one item (or more!) […]

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4 Mar 22

Fully re-opening post-Covid on 8th March 2022

We are delighted to be able to welcome clients back to the Foodbank post-Covid, starting on 8th March 2022. If you need our help, all you will need to do is get a referral agency to refer you (usually the agency you who is helping you with your problems), then come to us with the voucher […]

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14 Dec 21

Christmas & New Year Times

We will be closed from Wednesday 22nd December until our normal Tuesday session on 4th January.  if you require urgent assistance from foodbank during this time please email us on [email protected].

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5 Nov 21

Christmas 2021 Shopping List

This is the shopping list of extra food items we need for our Christmas parcels.  Please also see our Facebook or Twitter page for which items we are collecting each fortnight if you wish to give one or two things a few times leading up to Christmas. Thank you for all your donations – we […]

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8 Oct 21

Our statistics for July to September 2021

Thank you for helping us to support the people who need us; we couldn’t do it without your generosity!

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19 Aug 21

October School Uniform Swap

(Edited 8th October) Another school uniform swap shop in Brecon has been organised.  It will be on Wednesday 27th October at the St John’s Centre, from 3-6pm. The event is for families to drop in and take what they need to help get their children ready for the return to school and to save good items from going […]

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9 Apr 21

To make you aware….

We would like to make our supporters aware that at Brecon Foodbank we strive to remain neutral politically. We welcome politicians visiting us and supporting us (which several have done in various ways) on condition that they do not use this to promote their party or themselves.   We are making this public as people […]

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