Exeter Foodbank

16/10/2026

💚 We’re starting a THANK YOU WEEK, and there's no better day to start than World Food Day! 💚

Behind every food parcel is a community of people helping to make it possible. This week, we’re shining a light on some of those wonderful supporters - starting with AMS Global Solutions!

AMS supports Exeter Foodbank with a monthly donation, helping us plan ahead and continue providing emergency food to local people facing hardship. We’re also looking forward to welcoming their team to help collect and sort donations. 💚

Their lovely World Food Day post felt like the perfect opportunity to say how much that support means to us.

Thank you, AMS Community, for your kindness, generosity and commitment to our community. We’re so grateful to have you alongside us as we work towards a future where no one needs a foodbank.

14/10/2026

We are at Morrisons | Fresh Food & Recipes in Exeter (Prince Charles Road) doing our October food drive 🫶

Come down and see us 💚

09/10/2026

This was such a special morning Trinity CofE VA Primary & Nursery School's Harvest Assembly.

Parents... your children were amazing and so helpful in stacking the crates and putting them in the van. We think that you donated about 200kg of food to Exeter Foodbank.

Thank you so much to everyone involved.

🥦🥕 Harvest Week at Trinity 🥫🫙

It's been our harvest week at Trinity and we have been collecting donations from our families for Exeter Foodbank. Our character focus has been on 'compassion' this half-term and this was a perfect example of how we can come together as a school to support our wider community.

We were fortunate enough to have Mark and Pete from the foodbank join us for our collective worship to explain what will happen to the food. Our house captains helped pack the food and pass it on to be loaded in the van.

A big thank you to all our families who were able to donate something.

09/10/2026

You may have read that our 'Signposting Volunteer', Rob, is writing a few reflections on his time at Exeter Foodbank.

These are all anonymised and do not give any personal details.

We thought that some of this is particularly poignant.
Our thanks to Rob.
Our best wishes to the clients involved.
This is life at a foodbank in UK in 2026.

As we mentioned earlier in the week, Rob is coming to Exeter Foodbank in a short-term role as ‘Volunteer Signposter’. He meets clients and shares info on local services. And he drinks quite a lot o…

06/10/2026

Thank you...

A very quick thank you to (a) the generous people who donate to Exeter Foodbank and (b) to Andy and the team at UK Property Service.

As a foodbank in the Trussell network, our motto is 'restoring dignity, reviving hope'.

Since we moved into our home in Cowick Street we have two meeting rooms upstairs. We believe that everyone who needs to have a private discussion should be able to access that space.

Thanks to your generosity, we have been able to install a stair lift so that our venue is accessible. We have already seen several clients who would not be able to have this private conversation who have now been able to access more dignified support.

Thank you so much for making this possible.

06/10/2026

We thought that you may be interested in this.
There will be a new entry each day for a few days.

We have a new volunteer whose role is that of 'Volunteer Signposter'.

Rob will be sharing a short 'diary' page each day to share what he is seeing at Exeter Foodbank.

These will, of course, not include any personal details of the clients or anything that could identify anyone. They are very general - but they will explain what happens, what type of issues we see and what a new pair of eyes notices when they start volunteering at a foodbank.

We hope that you find these interesting.
Our thanks to Rob. We are very grateful to have you in this role until you find the amazing role that you deserve.

30/09/2026

We are here at Waitrose Exeter for our food drive!

Come and say hi and please help us with our donations ☺️☺️

23/09/2026

Our Autumn Newsletter has arrived.
So, kettle on, feet up, 10 minutes to see what we are up to.

We have some printed copies too if your office, community or faith group would like to request some please do get in touch.

There are important updates in here regarding our updated policy for vouchers. We are now 3 weeks into the new policy and the results have been hugely encouraging with many households getting wider support which means less foodbank referrals have been needed.

We are so grateful to some of the agencies that we work with - particularly Exeter City Council Benefits and Welfare Team, Citizens Advice Exeter and East Devon District Council. We could not implement this without their partnership.

Working together can make a lasting difference for households.

Why not put the kettle on, take 10 minutes and have a look at our Autumn Newsletter. There are a few things going on at foodbank:We welcome to our new Administrator, congratulate a young Devon Scou…

18/09/2026

We have set up a page on Easy Fundraising and the best part is that it would not cost the shoppers anything to donate to Exeter Foodbank.

If you make purchases online, without adding to the retail price, you can choose to donate to Exeter Foodbank. There are loads of participating retailers that shoppers do use every day who will make a donation to the charity out of the money that you pay. It may be 1% or 5%... but it all helps.

If you would like to see how it works, the info is all on here: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/support-a-good-cause/step-1/?invite=jah3ky&referral-campaign=c2s&utm_campaign=web-referral&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=copy-link&char=442557

You need to download an app, and then when visiting many, many shop it gives you an option to donate to us. This is the QR code that would lead you there.

So if someone is buying a holiday (for overseas) or an umbrella (for use in Exeter!), they can make a donation which costs them nothing but helps us.

Win/win.