At the Food Hub we provide emergency food, toiletries and household essentials to local people going through a time of hardship.

Our priority list for February is headed by boxes of 40 & 80 tea bags, tinned plain meat such as chicken, ham and corned beef, and jars of peanut butter, meat paste and fish paste.

Packet dried potatoes, tinned tomatoes and medium (500g) boxes of breakfast cereal are also listed, together with tinned dessert fruit and tinned rice pudding.

Three non-food items especially needed are bars of soap, unisex deodorant and children’s & adults’ toothbrushes.

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 brought to us at Purley United Reformed Church, next to Purley Hospital, between 9.00am – 12.00midday any Monday, Wednesday or Saturday mornings.

Please note that we will be closed for the whole of the week from Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th February inclusive. We will then reopen to receive donations on Monday 2nd March, Wednesday 4th and Saturday 7th, all between 9.00 – 11.30am.

Donations can also be dropped off at any of our in-store and roadside collection points listed here. In case of real difficulty, we may be able to collect your donations – please email purleyfoodhub@gmail.com or text 07546 635295.

Your donations also enable us to support the two local Food Stops – at Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church, Purley, and St Francis Church, Monks Hill, Selsdon – where many of our clients move on to for further help after receiving our emergency food parcels.

We have been operating now for 13 years and since we opened in 2013 you have generously helped us to provide food for 417,500 meals for more than 46,000 people. As always, we thank you for every tin, jar, packet, bottle and pound you kindly give – each one goes to support someone locally who is struggling to put enough food on the table for them and their family.