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Support Availability over Christmas

Our foodbank works using a voucher referral system. In order to provide the most appropriate help for the circumstances of your situation we work with local agencies and organisations. If they feel you are struggling to put food on the table, they will issue you with a foodbank voucher. The local agency can also provide […]

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Christmas Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme – activities are now available to all children

Families eligible for benefits-related free school meals can register now for the winter HAF activities and support. Thanks to extra funding, the County Council is now also able to offer the fun, enriching holiday activities to all children and young people, through the new Holiday Activities & Food Programme (HAF / HAP). Most activities will […]

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Christmas 2024

This page outlines everything you need to know about Christmas at Cirencester Foodbank this year! Please read through the information below. If you can’t find the answer to your question, you can email us and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can! Are you providing foodbank parcels over Christmas?  Cirencester Foodbank is […]

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New Partnership Enhances Opportunity for Sharing about the Reasons for Food Poverty

Cirencester Foodbank is pleased to announce a new partnership with ElevenLabs, a leader in AI audio and voice technology. This partnership supports the foodbank in highlighting the causes of food poverty in the South Cotswolds. ElevenLabs will provide Cirencester Foodbank with free access to its voice cloning and text-to-speech platform. This technology will enable the […]

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Your Mental Health Matters

Times are really tough at the moment, and its all taking a toll on all our mental health and wellbeing. Poor mental health can make earning and managing money harder. And worrying about money can make your mental health worse. It can start to feel like a vicious cycle. Along with the personal challenges struggles […]

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Out Now: Our Summer / Autumn Newsletter

In Issue 14 of our Foodbank Newsletter, we look at the issue of hidden poverty in our rural district and how people may be going without essential support. In this issue you will find: Our cover story reports on how embarrassment, stigma and lack of support masking hardship in the South Cotswolds We share our […]

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Trustees Wanted

Cirencester Foodbank is looking for new trustees to join the board and help us work towards a future where no one needs to use a foodbank.  If you are looking for a flexible, part-time voluntary role helping those in your local community which will also develop your professional skills then becoming a trustee may be […]

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2024 South Cotswold Food Poverty Report

As the cost-of-living crisis continues, Cirencester Foodbank has seen more local people in need of its support than at the height of the pandemic. Cirencester Foodbank continues, alongside providing emergency parcels, to work with partners to address the issues that lead people into food poverty. This years food poverty report provides insight on the drivers […]

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Join us for our 2024 Food Poverty Report Launch at Ingleside House

We would like to invite you to the launch of that report at Ingleside House, Beeches Rd, Cirencester on the 12th June 2024, from 11am. This year we will, once again, be sharing about the issues we are seeing that are causing local people to need food aid in the Southern part of the Cotswold […]

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4416 emergency food parcels provided to people by Cirencester Foodbank in the last 12 months, as people struggle to get by on low incomes

New figures released today show the impact of the cost-of-living crisis as more households are forced to rely on Cirencester Foodbank for support. The 12 months to 1st April 2024 saw more households referred into the Foodbank that during the same period in 2020-21, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost half (42%) of households referred were […]

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