A CHARITY food bank that hands out hundreds of meals a day in Oxford has started delivering directly to families.

The Oxford Food Bank, a charity run by volunteers, has started handing out food to people in need at local community centres.

It previously delivered to local charities to redistribute its donations.

The new arrangement is a partnership with Oxfordshire County Council’s social workers, who now help connect the food bank with families who are known to be in need.

We have done it - we have moved premises!

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By Tom Jennings (Article from Oxford Mail dated 25th March 2012)

A MUM who struggled to feed her children 14 years ago is setting up West Oxfordshire’s first food bank.

Joanne Cypher, 37, said despite the district’s affluent image, it had “pockets of deprivation” and some parents were struggling to feed their children.

She is now calling for other volunteers to help out.

Oxford Food Bank have just received a cheque for £600 from the day at Sainsburys, Kidlington!  Many thanks Sainsburys for this generous donation!!

The Sainsbury’s collection was made by the Rotary Club of Woodstock.  Thank you so much and of course thank you to all the Sainsburys customers!

A C Nielsen and Vertex were the two companies who helped back at the base.

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Support the food bank

Food Justice is an exciting student volunteering project. It is run by a committee of students and residents that aim to raise awareness, research, and plan events related to food ethics issues. These issues can include food waste, food poverty, local food, health, nutrition, and food policy, and anything else the committee is interested in.

Some of the exciting activities on the menu are: 

A troupe of 25 students walking down the Oxford roads is often the bane of many Oxford residents' summer life. However, this group of 25 students walking to The Food Bank depot was hopefully going to make a difference to the lives of a good many Oxford residents.

We have brand new van, generously donated by The Rotary clubs of Abingdon Vesper, Oxford Isis, Oxford Spires.  Thank you so much.  It means now we can take on more deliveries.  That also means we are looking for help too. 

So please do contact us if you would like to get involved or make a donation to help us with ongoing running costs like petrol and electricity costs.

"Many thanks to all Foodbank volunteers and suppliers from all of us at
O'Hanlon House (formerly Oxford Night Shelter).  We need to provide
three meals a day for between 80 and 100 homeless people every day of
the year and, in the context of increasingly stretched budgets, the
input of the Foodbank is incredibly helpful.  Not only do we not have to
buy as many staples such as fresh fruit and vegetables, but we are able
to give regular treats to the many homeless people who use our services

A CHARITY has launched its Christmas push to get food to thousands of Oxford’s most vulnerable people.

Volunteers at the Oxford Food Bank are working day and night to deliver supplies for more than 3,000 meals a week over what they say is becoming an increasingly busy festive period.

Yesterday the team picked up another van-load of supplies from Sainsbury’s supermarket in Kidlington, which will be sorted and handed out in the city.