Camden FoodBank 
Camden Foodbank is part of the Trussell Trust group of foodbanks in the U.K., supporting adults and children in food poverty in the borough of Camden since 2012.
The Camden borough has a significant number of homeless people and people who live in great deprivation. Every day, people go hungry for different reasons, including family breakdown, job loss and mental health problems. During the past two years, Camden Foodbank has been trying to cope with a tsunami of increasing demand from people trying to find enough money to be able to eat, which has been exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis. In April 2023, the Trussell Trust said that in the past year, more than one million children received emergency food parcels from foodbanks. This is the first time the figure has reached over one million.
Camden Foodbank partners with a wide range of local professionals, such as doctors, social workers, health visitors, the Job Centre, Camden Council and the Citizens Advice Bureau who issue people in need with a foodbank voucher. This voucher allows people in a food crisis to come along to the Foodbank to receive an emergency supply of food for themselves and their children.
Camden Foodbank is in continuous and urgent need of targeted food donations.
Food is donated by schools, businesses, places of worship and individuals to help support the local community. When the donated food comes into the foodbank, volunteers sort, date-check and pack the food into crates ready to be donated to people in food poverty.
When people in a food crisis come into Camden Foodbank with food vouchers, they are given a 3 day emergency supply of a variety of foods as the aim is to give out nutritionally balanced packages.
We then aim to signpost them to relevant services.
Camden School for Girls Collection
We have boxes under the tables in the Sixth Form House foyer and under the stairs in the main school reception. Please bring in any items from the suggested list below. The foodbank will be collecting all donations on Tuesday 19 December.
Food donated will be given out by Camden Foodbank local people who come to crisis point.
Targeted Food Urgently Required by Camden Foodbank:
Food
- Longlife Milk
- Longlife Juice and squash
- Tinned Fish
- Tinned Meat
- Tinned Vegetables
- Tinned Fruit
- Tinned Tomatoes
- Baked Beans
- Pasta and Pasta Sauce
- Coffee, Tea, Hot chocolate, and Sugar (small packets)
- Biscuits and chocolate
- Jam and Honey
- Rice (small packets)
- Kidney Beans and Chickpeas
Toiletries
- Shampoo
- Shower Gel and Soap
- Washing powder (small packets)
- Washing up liquid
- Toothpaste and Toothbrushes
- Handwash and Bars of Soap
Many thanks
Camden School for Girls
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