WELCOME to the Purley Food Hub website1,710 MEALS PROVIDED in August17,802 MEALS PROVIDED so far this year4,163 ITEMS DONATED in August41,585 ITEMS DONATED so far this yearTHANK YOU for your generous support! WELCOME to the Purley Food Hub website1,710 MEALS PROVIDED in August17,802 MEALS PROVIDED so far this year4,163 ITEMS DONATED in August41,585 ITEMS DONATED so far this yearTHANK YOU for your generous support!
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Along with a further 10 food, toiletry and household items, can openers are also back on our most wanted list for Food Hub clients in October.
Although many tins today have easy-to-use ring pulls, there are still a lot that don’t. So we will be most grateful this month for donations of tin openers – although we do ask, please, not the “butterfly” type which unfortunately our clients find can too easily come apart.
Also most needed for October are 500g packets of breakfast cereal, pasta sauce in cartons and packet dried potato. Tinned carrots, 500g bags of sugar and tinned rice pudding feature too, together with children’s chocolate/sweet treats.
The month’s three non-food items especially required are unisex deodorant, shampoo and toilet rolls.
Click here to view the list in full. To have it sent with our monthly newsletter directly to your inbox at the beginning of each month, please email steve.purleyfoodhub@gmail.com.
Donations can be delivered to us at Purley United Reformed Church next to Purley Hospital between 9.00am – 11.30am on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
On Mondays proceed along the left side of the church building to the open white doors at the far end; on Wednesdays and Saturdays drive or walk round to the open brown doors on the right-hand (Purley Hospital) side.
Donations can also be dropped off at any of our in-store and roadside collection points listed here. In the event of real difficulty, we may be able to arrange for your donations to be collected – please email purleyfoodhub@gmail.com or text 07546 635295.
As well as the Food Hub, your donations also help support the two local Food Stops – at Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church, Purley, and St Francis Church, Monks Hill, Selsdon – where our clients can go for further help after they receive their emergency food parcels from us.
We are very grateful indeed for EVERYONE’S continued generosity. Each tin, jar, carton, bottle and pound that’s donated goes to help someone in the south of the Borough of Croydon who is struggling to put enough food on the table for themselves and their family.
Since we opened 13 years ago in January 2013, you have kindly donated food equivalent to 436,500 meals for 48,500 people.
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The background story about who we are and how we work with clients and partner organisations to help local people in crisis, plus answers to frequently asked questions and a brief guide to landmark events since 2013.
Discover more about the three main ways you can support the Food Hub – GIVE FOOD through our network of collection points, VOLUNTEER to work behind the scenes, and/or DONATE MONEY for the Food Hub to purchase supplies.
All you need to know about using the Food Hub, with a step-by-step guide to the whole process, from getting a referral to the kind of items we’ll put in the food package that you receive – and how you’ll receive it!