Category: Updates

This week we reverted to offering food bags at our Monday distribution session and had our first full week of home deliveries. We are slowly settling into a routine to

This Monday, Bow Foodbank will be open at St Catherine’s Parish Hall. We will return to distributing food bags and we will no longer be giving out vouchers.

We will be open to receive donations at St Mary’s on Easter Sunday between 12:30 and 3 pm. We will not be receiving donations on Monday. We are still struggling

Last Friday, with the help of the Tower Hamlets team of drivers, we were able to provide food parcels for 18 households that are self-isolating. At our last Monday session

We are as ever very grateful for any food donations that you can bring us at St Mary’s Church Bow on Sunday afternoon between 12:30 pm and 3 pm, and

This Monday we moved temporarily from food distribution to food voucher distribution. This has made it much easier to comply with the social distancing rules and to protect users and

This week we are looking especially for Rice Toilet Rolls Pasta Shower Gel UHT Milk Nappies (all sizes but 0) Cereals

At Bow Foodbank today we distributed 172 food bags to current and new users plus a similar number again of ‘family’ bags if the user had kids. Given the risk

We are adopting reasonable measures modelled on good practice at supermarkets.