News
7 Sep 17
Combined Harvest Appeal
This Harvest could you support foodbanks with a combined donation of food and funds to help local people in crisis? If you would like to promote our Harvest appeal this year you can use our Harvest Appeal Poster For more information on Foodbank and the Harvest collections, see our Harvest Foodbank Information If you would like to […]
1 Aug 17
Farewell Alec
Our Development Officer, Alec Spencer, is moving on from Foodbank on the 27th July 2017. A well-known face within local and national networks of people and organisations working for food justice in the UK; he will leave a very large gap in our knowledge and capability that we are now challenged to fill. At the […]
27 Jul 17
Job Vacancy – Welcome Network Project Co-ordinator
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced individual to co-ordinate on an exciting new project across Cheshire West and Chester developing the Welcome Network. This will be a 3-year post working on reducing the underpinning factors of food poverty and ‘holiday hunger’ in the area. Applicants will be expected to have a good understanding […]
31 May 17
Is our foodbank getting it right on non-food?
Do you wonder why foodbanks don’t all do the same thing? West Cheshire Foodbank focuses on giving food in exchange for vouchers brought to us by people in need. We have a nutritionally balanced food list that we advertise and we give from what is donated. In fact we get given a whole range of […]
5 May 17
Churches Friendship Network
We can’t solve food poverty on our own. At West Cheshire Foodbank, we want to be a catalyst for change in our communities. We work with people of all faiths and none, and with a range of organisations including charities, unions, housing associations and businesses. In every area, we find people who are committed […]
28 Mar 17
Four Years of Food Parcels – Reflections from West Cheshire
Image: People with direct experience of poverty distributed red foodbank vouchers to people queuing for lunch at the West Cheshire Poverty Truth Commission launch. The message ‘Visiting the foodbank was the lowest part of my story’ was printed on the back of the voucher. Credit: Alec Spencer Ruth Mock, Family Life Officer at the Diocese […]