26/01/2024
PAGE HALL NOW HAS AN EMERGENCY FREE FOOD SHELF ❤️
It's in the kitchen area where we make the tea and coffee.
It is a no questions asked facility, where anybody can donate or receive free food on behalf of themselves or someone they know who might be in need of it.
It can only receive Non Perishable Food donations.
So whenever you're at a Dancin Tots session feel free to drop something off or if you know anyone who could do with a little extra help then pop in the kitchen and pick something up for them. No questions asked.
Or pop in on these days
Mondays 12.30 to 1.00pm
Tuesdays 11.30 to 12 noon
Wednesdays11.30 to 12 noon
Thursdays12.30 to 1.00pm
Saturdays 12.30 to 1.00pm
Meanwhile here is a list of other places we already know of
LOCAL EMERGENCY FOOD PROVIDERS
Staple Hill Community Hub
1a Berkely House BS165HS
Tel: 01454 868374
Tuesday: 1.00pm til 2.00pm
Thursday: 1.00pm til 2.00pm
Call to arrange parcel
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Salvation Army Food Store
Broad Street, Staple Hill
Tel: 0117 9560733
Thursday: 10.00am til 4.00pm
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Ignite Life High Street, Staple Hill Tel: 0117 2872494
Monday: 12.30pm til 4:00pm
Tuesday: 10.00am til 3.00pm
Weds: 10.00am til 1:00pm
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Fishponds Food Bank
Fishponds Baptist Church Fishponds Bristol
Tel: 0117 9653421
Fridays: 12.30pm til 2.15pm
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Resound Centre
Blackhorse Road Downend
Tel: 0117 3050969
Fridays: 10.00am til 12noon
Uses a voucher and referral system
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Kingswood Foodbank Outlet
The Bourne Christian Centre
Waters Road BS15 8BE
Tel: 07584625082
Mon: 10.30am til 12.30pm
Tues: 9.30am til 12:45pm
Fri: 1.30pm til 3.30pm
Uses a voucher and referral system
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Other suggestions gathered from our community members listed below......
https://dancintots.co.uk/free-food-for-struggling-families/
If you’re a member of Mamas Bristol CIC: Swaps & Freebies they have people over Bristol who collect surplus food from supermarkets and put it outside their house for anyone to collect
https://www.facebook.com/groups/435002390781604/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/664350610961731/
https://www.facebook.com/MamasAdminOnDuty/?ti=as
https://www.facebook.com/groups/760979727446042/?ref=share
Download the app, called Olio. You can request Tesco and Pret surplus food from “food waste heroes” around you. It is all free. You can setup the distance to 0.3,0.6, 1.3 miles and so on. Up to you how far are you willing to go. Use by items has to be collected the same night. Best before items can be collected next day.
There’s is also an app called “too good to go” and you can pick up free fresh things on there from local supermarkets etc that are near or on use by date.
The Salvation Army offer help with food and there are several in and around Bristol – Bristol Citadel in the city centre, Bristol Easton, Bristol Kingswood, Pill, Staple Hill and Bristol South (based in Knowle West but covers most of South Bristol. They do frozen ready meals freshly prepared on site by chefs as well as tinned/long life food), They all have links with The Salvation Army’s Employment Plus team too which is a free service who can help look at things like benefits, debt advice, training employment advice, well-being, housing issues etc who can meet you in an area convenient for you for a cuppa and a chat to help you.
If you are in Bristol, many of our Children’s Centres have a weekly food delivery, where you can turn up. Its usually some fresh fruit and veg and tins and stuff.
Check out food clubs, there are a few dotted around the city and information can be found here
https://www.facebook.com/FamilyActionBristolandSouthWestFoodClubs/
If you’re near BS16/Mangotsfield area there is a community fridge at barley close school which is open to anyone to collect things Mon to Fri. There’s also a community fridge in keynsham too. There is a community fridge in Timsbury and I think Paulton might still have one.
Community fridges are open and accessible 24/7, no vouchers, no questions, take what you need.
Timsbury community fridge is at South Road Methodist. Church.
https://www.facebook.com/CaldicotCommunityFridge/
https://www.bristolfoodnetwork.org/…/food-poverty…/
https://the-matthew-tree-project.org/contact-us/
If you call your local food bank – even without a voucher – they will give you a food parcel 🙂. You don’t need a voucher to use the foodbank if it’s an emergency. Hillfields Community Hub Friday Food Club – non means tested take as much as you need £3.50 a week
Lyde Green Community Centre get supplies of Free Food from Co-op & Saintsburys
Coexist in Easton do microwaveable, freezable meals for collection . Collect meals between 2:30/5:30 Wednesday
https://www.facebook.com/feedbelliesnotbinsnailsea/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freemymeal/?ref=share
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freemymealbristol/?ref=share
The Foundation for Active Community Engagement (FACE) get ASDA donations on Mondays put outside the front of the building usually from 3pm, put inside again overnight and then back outside again Tuesdays 10am onwards and then topped up Wednesday mornings with anything from Tesco! All donated food which is just past it’s best before date but still good enough to eat! (They just can’t sell it so give it to charities) pop a donation into the bucket if you can but take anything you like
https://www.facebook.com/FoundationforActiveCommunityEngagement/
Morrisons in fishponds have a food bank and have things sorted in to sections. There was a sign saying please ask if you need help so that may be useful
If you are part of bristol city council, there is a form you can fill in and they give you vouchers to spend on food and toiletries. You choose which supermarket (out of the 4 options) and you get a gift card. You can only apply once a year and you don’t have to pay it back. You get it all accepted and received in the same day you apply if you submit it before 12 noon. I’m currently not on any benefits but was struggling this month as my husband lost his job and I was still entitled to it. It’s been a big help.
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/…/apply-for-an-emergency…
Christ the servant church stockwood every week day I think it’s between 2-4pm. No voucher or explanation needed
Don’t be embarrassed. More and more people, working and non, are finding themselves in positions where they need help. It’s tough out there right now.
There are Food clubs about Bristol, which I think people have linked to above. For example in Bedminster at the United Reform Church Hall West street Friday 2-4pm you pay £1 to join the club and then £3:50 for a box of fresh, dried and tinned and sometimes frozen foods worth £10-15 . All donated food collected and redistributed by FairShare.
Also if you talk to your GP and ask if they have a Social Prescriber- these are care professionals that exist because GPs know that housing, food, loneliness, anxiety etc impact on health. So they can help you find assistance.
I work for a really special organisation and we offer hot meals on a Friday and Sunday evening out of champion square, which is just outside the Quakers house in town. (It is opposite cabbots)There is no requirement to be homeless, many of our regulars are in housing but don’t have access to food. There is no tickets needed or questions asked. The service is accessed by a variety of people.
We also have a food bank truck that runs at the same times and is full of food items that your family may need.
Please have a look on our page Feed The Homeless Bristol for further details.
https://www.facebook.com/fthBRISTOL/
Try this! They have multiple locations across Bristol and it is great! not free, but only 3.50 per shop, and very good value. https://www.family-action.org.uk/…/children…/food-club/
https://www.family-action.org.uk/…/children…/food-club/
