News
19 Oct 23
Newcastle Foodbank Prepares For Hard Winter
Newcastle Foodbank provides emergency food and welfare support for people and households who are experiencing financial hardship. This can be food or fuel poverty, benefits issues, debt issues or the cost of living crisis. The Charity operates a network of seven Foodbank centres and welfare hubs in the Newcastle City region (Benwell, Byker, Heaton, Lemington, […]
15 Sep 23
Foodbank sees busiest summer in 10 year history
Newcastle Foodbank provides emergency food and welfare support for people and households who are experiencing financial hardship. This can be food or fuel poverty, benefits issues, debt issues or the cost of living crisis. The Charity operates a network of seven Foodbank centres and welfare hubs in the Newcastle City region (Benwell, Byker, Heaton, Lemington, […]
6 Sep 23
Our Pathways Out Of Hunger Initiative:
The core purpose of the food bank is to help people overcome a temporary crisis when they are unable to afford food and they’re missing out on regular meals. But our mission does not end there. Working with others, we want to improve the life chances of our clients. Pathways Out of Hunger was set […]
1 Sep 23
10 Year Anniversary
We recently acknowledged our 10 year anniversary as a Foodbank. As a Charity, we provide emergency food and welfare support for people and households who are experiencing financial hardship. This can be food or fuel poverty, benefits issues, debt issues or the cost of living crisis. Since beginning back in 2013 with one Foodbank centre […]
23 Jun 23
Newcastle Community Pantry
Our charity was set up over a decade ago to tackle the issue of food insecurity across the city region, our most recent initiative is the Newcastle Community Pantry network. The Pantry operates on a membership based, co-operative model with the aim of providing affordable food to local people within areas of multiple deprivation. The […]
14 Jun 23
Essentials Guarantee Campaign
In the last financial year, our Foodbank has seen a 39% increase in the total number of food parcels issued from the previous twelve months. In March of this year, we recorded our busiest ever month in our 10 year history, issuing over 2,500 parcels in one calendar month. Our social security system should support […]
19 May 23
Collections at Sam Fender Shows 9th & 10th June
We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with Sam Fender for his shows at St James’ Park on the 9th and 10th of June. Since visiting us back in 2021 to pack food parcels Sam has become a friend of the foodbank and with the North Shields singer selling out two nights at […]
26 Apr 23
Foodbank sees number of food parcels issued increase by 39% from the previous year
Newcastle West End Foodbank provides emergency food and welfare support for people and households who are experiencing financial hardship. This can be food or fuel poverty, benefits issues, debt issues or the cost of living crisis. The Charity operates a network of seven Foodbank centres and welfare hubs in the Newcastle City region (Benwell, Byker, […]
10 Jan 23
BBC Documentaries
BBC Documentaries have been on site, gathering interviews and recordings of the day-to-day of the Foodbank. They published a segment on BBC News, highlighting what the Foodbank is like and following the life of Anita as one of our users. Watch here.
10 Jan 23
On The One Show
We partnered up with The One Show and Recyke Y’Bike in the lead up to Christmas, supplying refurbished bikes to families just in time for the holidays. In December a segment of this cooperative effort was aired on The One Show, with footage taken in St James’ and St Silas’ Churches. Watch here.