A record-breaking year for Mid-Norfolk Foodbank Wellspring Church in Dereham, Swaffham Baptist Church, and Fakenham Salvation Army centre have provided the bases for a record-breaking year at Mid-Norfolk Foodbank. About 1500 children were among the 4000 people fed by the mid-Norfolk Foodbank over the past year. To help it meet the demand, the foodbank received a record 62.8 tonnes of donations in the year to March 1 2021 – compared to 44 tonnes in the previous year. Almost 50 tonnes of staple foods, toiletries and other donated household goods were handed out to single people, couples and families from distribution centres at Dereham, Swaffham and Fakenham. Remaining stocks are being maintained in anticipation of another busy year, as hundreds of families grapple with redundancy and low incomes, as well as the arrival of home heating bills after the cold winter.
Breckland Council donate vital cash for foodbank which delivers to Fakenham and Swaffham
| Updated: 10:35, 21 January 2021
A foodbank which delivers food to centres in Swaffham and Fakenham has been given a funding boost.
Breckland Council has provided £2,500 funding to the Mid-Norfolk Foodbank, to secure a new storage unit to help meet the increasing public demand for the community foodbank services.
The funding will ensure volunteers can operate safely in extended premises, store additional food donations and meet the growing need for their services.
Foodbank donations
Compared with March to November 2019 to the same period in 2020, demand for support from the foodbank has risen by 50 per cent - with more than 46 tonnes of food given out in mid-Norfolk since the pandemic began.