| Dear Parkdale School.
All of us here at Hope Nottingham want to say a huge THANK YOU for donating food to our food banks over the last year. Please find attached a certificate recording the weight of food you have donated, which you can proudly display! In the last 12 months, your donations have helped us distribute nearly 9,000 emergency 3-day food parcels, providing the equivalent of over 180,000 meals to individuals and families in crisis right across our city . It has been generous donations such as yours, that have helped to keep our14 foodbanks across Nottingham stocked.
We would hugely value your continued kindness in the year ahead – especially during key times such as Harvest and Advent. We have prepared some resources to support you in collecting food for us which are available on our website here.
Food is obviously essential to keep our foodbanks operating, but we also rely on financial donations to keep our services running. Donated funds help us to meet our running costs, including staff, keeping our van on the road, ensuring our buildings are maintained and heated, funding high quality advice provision and providing the wide range of community activities we run in addition to our foodbanks. Financial donations also allow us to purchase food supplies at times when food donations are less plentiful.
You can find out more about ways to give here
Our approach to providing an emergency foodbank service is entirely in keeping with our Christian values of:
Trust
We are committed to being good stewards of your donations, ensuring every item is looked after and reaches those who need it most, via our robust, efficient and safe electronic referral process.
Compassion
Your kindness in giving is reflected by our amazing volunteers, who welcome those in crisis with sensitivity and care, recognising what an upsetting situation our guests find themselves in.
Working Together
We believe in the power of community, working together to support those in need, demonstrated by our fourteen unique foodbanks and the many donors, like you who support them.
Belonging
By supporting Hope Nottingham, you are part of that caring community. Thank you for being a part of our mission to show those in need that their communities are here for them.
Positive Change
We work closely with local agencies to ensure food is not only distributed efficiently and fairly, but that our guests also have help with whatever issues have caused them to need emergency food. This includes providing accessible welfare, benefit and debt advice in many of our foodbanks, alongside signposting to helpful services. |
We were delighted to receive this confirmation of your amazing contributions to hope over the past year – 289Kg of food!