News
13 Mar 20
Coronavirus Update
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We’re still supporting people with emergency food at Brecon Foodbank, while maintaining sensible precautions. It’s hard for us to say how things will unfold in the coming weeks, but we will continue to provide help wherever possible and if anything changes, we’ll publish the information as soon as we can, especially on our Twitter and […]
18 Feb 20
How to help us this Lent
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If you would like to donate food this Lent, one way to do it is to follow our ‘Adlent Calendar’. This works like our ‘Reverse Advent Calendar’: each day of Lent, collect the item on the calendar to put in a bag and bring to us after Easter. If you would rather donate money, you […]
14 Feb 20
Support us through the Co-op Local Community Fund!
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During this year until the end of October, you can support us when you shop in Brecon Co-op thanks to the Co-op Local Community Fund. If you are a Co-op member, every time you buy selected own-brand products and services, 1% of the money you spend goes to local causes in the community, and this […]
17 Jan 20
Christmas Parcels 2019 – Thanks!
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Thank you to those who packed the 57 parcels, which fed 149 people.
13 Dec 19
Christmas and New Year opening times
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We will be open until 2.30pm on Friday 20th December We will then be closed until Friday January 3rd, when we will be open as normal. If someone needs food while we are closed, there are emergency bags at Powys CC Housing department, Brecon Job Centre, Brecon Mind and Kaleidoscope. See our referral agency list […]
3 Dec 19
Thank you but no more for now!
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We have been overwhelmed by people’s desire to help us help others this Christmas; your generosity is amazing and we are truly grateful. We have now reached the point where we are struggling to process and store all that is being donated, and we think we have as much as we will be able to […]
29 Nov 19
Art Auction Report
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A good crowd defied the floods and gathered to support the town’s foodbank, at the art auction on October 26th at Christ College. Brecon foodbank are delighted to report that their charity auction “Artist Against Food Poverty” has been a tremendous success, raising over five thousand pounds, which was beyond any of our hopes […]
16 Nov 19
Christmas Shopping List and Parcels
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If you are interested as a group, family or individual in packing a Christmas parcel for one or more of our clients, please contact us by the end of November, by email ([email protected]) or via the contact us page on this website.
30 Oct 19
How to help our clients this Christmas
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This Advent and Christmas we will be running two ‘schemes’ to help our clients and those on the ‘borderline’ of needing our help to have a happier Christmas: Reverse Advent Calendars and Christmas Parcels. We hope many individuals, families, groups and churches will help with one of these. Reverse Advent Calendars seem to be catching […]