UK food price inflation rose for the fourth consecutive month to a one-year high in May, according to the Financial Times. And after three successive months of providing food for around 3,500 meals for 400 clients and family members each month, the Food Hub’s current stock shortages are reflected in June’s list of items we most need at this time.

Heading our Top 10 most-wanted list are small bottles of pasta sauce, tinned corned beef, chicken and ham, and tins/plastic snap pots of baked beans.

Toddler microwave meals for 10 months and 12 months-plus, small 500g packets of sugar, and tinned tomatoes are also required, along with packets of custard requiring only hot water and tinned rice pudding. Completing this month’s list are small bottles of shampoo and kitchen scourers.

Click here to view the list in full. If you would like to have the list and our monthly newsletter sent directly to your inbox at the beginning of each month, please email steve.purleyfoodhub@gmail.com.

Donations can be brought to us at Purley United Reformed Church (next to Purley Hospital) any Monday, Wednesday or Saturday morning between 9.00am – 12.00midday. Or you can take them to one of our local in-store and roadside collection points listed here.

We are most grateful for everyone’s continued kind support. Your donations over the past 12 years mean we have been able to provide food for more than 43,500 local people going through hard times.

At three meals a day for three days for each client and family member, it’s equivalent to nearly 395,000 meals.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERY TIN, JAR, PACKET AND POUND – WE GREATLY APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE.