An urgent appeal has been launched for donations after Lichfield Foodbank said a “surge in demand” had left it short of supplies.
The organisation said it desperately needed basic tinned and packaged foods.
David Clarke, operations manager at Lichfield Foodbank, said:
This year has already brought yet another surge in demand for our services here at Lichfield Foodbank.
“We desperately need basic tinned and packaged foods. We have plenty of baked beans, but we are short of all other foods.
“While in ‘normal’ times we welcome toiletries, just now our priority is food.
“If you are able, please help us to help those in our community who are going hungry.”
David Clarke, Lichfield Foodbank
Details of how to donate are available on the Lichfield Foodbank website.
Certain people really need to manage their money better. To hear that people on £30k a year are using a foodbank is ridiculous. Stop spending what you don’t have in that case! (this isn’t aimed at those in genuine need, who I’m happy to help).
Gary – can I suggest you join me as a volunteer at Lichfield Foodbank? Hear some stories of how people’s lives can change overnight and suddenly need charitable support to put food on the table. Also, I can vouch for our service users, that their budgeting skills to make the small amounts they have stretch as they do are incredible. Come along and inform yourself about real situations rather than spouting nonsense from the media.
If you want to help but can’t go out buying physical items to put in a donation point, you can also give money for them to spend on whatever is needed. If you are a tax payer, Giftaid increases the value of your donation. https://www.justgiving.com/lichfieldfoodbank
You don’t just rock up at a food bank for handouts. Agencies and health workers carefully apply a voucher system and, as necessary, offer help and advice on financial and debt management, benefit entitlements and any related health issues.
Food bank users are rarely life’s winners.
BigStephenS is absolutely right. Anyone wanting to know more about the voucher scheme and how referrals to Lichfield Foodbank work can find the relevant information on their website:
https://lichfield.foodbank.org.uk/get-help/foodbank-vouchers/
We take a couple of bags of shopping to St Chad’s church every month for the foodbank because we are fortunate enough to be able to afford to do this.
We are both pensioners with less than £30,000 combined income.
People’s incomes have dramatically changed, increases in mortgage, energy etc, I hope that only true deserving people are given vouchers for food, it would upset us if we knew otherwise, and we would rather donate to a local charity instead.
Where is our MP?? Why isn’t he highlighting this?? When did he even last visit??
He’s a disgrace to this constituency, and he needs to be elected out. He is lazy and he simply doesn’t care one jot.