GIVE FOOD
We are always happy to receive food donations. If you would prefer to give food for us to distribute, please take a look at our Bow Foodbank favourites list below or download a collection box poster here:
BFB Collection Essentials Poster
We are also in need of plastic bags – so please do include these in your collections!
If you have further questions on donations, please email donations@bowfoodbank.org for more information.
As of 31st July 2024 this location is closed, please visit our Bow Location.
You are welcome to drop donations off at these times
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays: 10 am to 3 pm
- Wednesdays: 12 pm to 7 pm
You can find us at:
Bow Foodbank, William Place, London, E3 5ED
Local shops also collect for us and if you are in these stores and would like to give one or two items. Thank you!
Simply Fresh E2: 201-203 Roman Rd, E2 0QY
Maks News: 154 Columbia Rd, E2 7RG
St. Pauls Old Ford: St Paul’s Church, St Stephen’s Rd, Bow, London E3 5JL
Ozone Coffee: Emma St, E2 9AP
Waitrose, St Katharine Docks: 41 Thomas More St, London E1W 1YY
Sainsbury’s: 1 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E1 5SD
The Stratford Centre, 38 – 40 The Mall, London, E15 1XE
Foodbank Favourites
Every week, we bulk buy Bow Foodbank favourite items for our guests, so every item you can give saves us money.
We typically provide around three to four days’ worth of food for each person, plus extra items for a family with children. Please give what you can – even just a few items do make a difference.
If you would like to organise a larger food collection for us from your school, church, community group, apartment block or workplace, read our information sheet here: Bow Foodbank Support in Kind – Collection Box
If you wish to set up a weekly collection point, please get in touch: donations@bowfoodbank.org.
Thank you for all your help!
- Cereals (including 12-pack Weetabix)
- Disposable nappies (most popular sizes 5 & 6)
- Dried lentils
- Vegetable cooking oil (1 L)
- Washing Powder
- Toilet rolls
- UHT Milk (semi-skimmed or full fat)
- Rice (500g – 1 kg)
- Pasta (500g – 1kg)
- Nuts, Seeds, Dried Fruit
- Wraps
- Washing-up liquid
- Plastic Bags
- Tinned vegetables and pulses – kidney beans, chickpeas, potatoes, tomatoes, sweetcorn etc. (400g)
- Instant coffee
- Shampoo
- Shower Gel
- Teabags
- Peanut butter
- Rice pudding
- Tinned custard or rice pudding
- Sweet spread (jam, honey etc.)
- Period products
- Incontinence pads
- Toothpaste