Black Country Food Bank

29/10/2026

One of our core values is ‘Connect’ and it reminds us that lasting change happens when people come together.
In our October Newsletter out today – Connect: Stronger Together - we’ve been looking at some of our new partnerships helping the people we support beyond the immediate crisis of a food parcel.

🔗 Citizens Advice sessions at several of our foodbanks
🔗 Adult Community Learning opportunities helping people build skills and confidence
🔗 Family Hubs delivering recipe bag cooking sessions to local families

Together, these connections are helping people access advice, build confidence, develop new skills, strengthen resilience, and move towards greater independence.

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27/10/2026

Earlier this year, Holy Cross Munch Bunch took advantage of our school holiday food project grants, and made this short film to show what the club offered.

The munch bunch club supported around 100 children during the summer holidays, using their grant to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables to distribute to children, provide cooked breakfasts and packed lunches, helping to support families during the school holidays who can’t access free school meals.

This support was only made possible by your donations, helping us to expand practical opportunities that help people access food, skills and wider support through our growing range of community food projects. Thank you 🙏

25/10/2026

25/10/2026

It was an absolute honour (and surprise!) to receive the Abrahams - Lindsay award for long service at the Dudley CVS awards ceremony.

The award recognises the community support Black Country Foodbank have provided to people in Dudley over the last 20 years.

We accepted this award on behalf of our incredible volunteers who have faithfully open their foodbanks addressing not only immediate needs but providing support beyond the food parcel.

Thank you 🧡

23/10/2026

📱Turning unwanted tech into real support for local people

We're delighted to be partnering with Phones For Good and seeing first-hand how unused technology can be transformed into meaningful support for communities across the Black Country.

Thanks to Nova Training, their donation of unwanted devices and tech, after refurbishment and responsible recycling, has generated £773 for us - that's the impact of just one email and one organisation!

If your organisation has laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other devices sitting in storage cupboards or awaiting disposal, we'd love to hear from you. Through our partnership with Phones for Good, these unwanted devices can be turned into funding that helps provide emergency food and essential support to people facing hardship across the region, create positive environmental impact, and unlock the hidden value in technology that is no longer being used.

21/10/2026

🎉 Now that’s a lovely way to start your birthday

Allan Boot, our Walsall Area Co-ordinator, headed to New Invention Learning Academy for a Harvest assembly this morning and came away, not only with lots of donations, but with a very special birthday card too! 🎂

Thank you to everyone at the school for making his visit extra special 🧡
Happy Birthday, Allan 🎉

16/10/2026

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at Dockworks Waterfront this morning for the second Dudley Food Network event 🧡

15/10/2026

“The biggest impact the foodbank had on me was helping me realise that I wasn’t on my own.”

This quote from someone who used a foodbank reminds us why the support of our volunteers, donors and supporters matters so much 🧡

Every item donated, every hour volunteered and every pound raised helps us provide more than emergency food. It helps people feel seen, valued and supported during some of the toughest moments of their lives.

12/10/2026

Today marks the start of Challenge Poverty Week England and Wales; an opportunity to highlight the injustice of poverty and encourage collective action to build a fairer society where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

Here at Black Country Foodbank, as well as providing food in our emergency parcels, we also offer essential toiletries to support people facing hygiene poverty alongside food poverty.

In recent research by The Hygiene Bank and In Kind Direct, 41% of respondents experiencing hygiene poverty said they were doing so for the first time this year. Nearly one in five adults reported that their household had gone without everyday essentials such as toilet roll, toothpaste and deodorant.

Items that many of us consider everyday necessities are becoming increasingly out of reach for others as the rising cost of living continues to make basic hygiene products unaffordable for many households.

This Challenge Poverty Week, could you add an extra item to your shopping basket and donate it to your local foodbank? A pack of toilet roll, deodorant, toothpaste, or another item from our shopping list may seem small, but it can make a real difference to someone struggling to afford life's essentials.
Every donation helps - Thank you🙏

Hygiene poverty was defined as being unable to afford basic hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, deodorant, nappies or washing-up liquid.