For many people, food is as important a part of Christmas as any other, but the same could be said of giving.
There are many people in the area who are struggling to put food on the table – not just at Christmas, but around the year.
Kingston and Cobham food banks are vital services for these people, and the Trussel Trust, which runs them, gets 90 per cent of its donations from the public.
This is how people can help the food banks, and what they need most.
Kingston
Urgently needed items:
• Tinned meat
• Jam and spreads
• Instant noodles
• Instant mashed potato
• Small jars of instant coffee
• Fruit juice or squash
Still needed:
• Tinned vegetables (e.g. peas, carrots and sweetcorn)
• Fish
• Pasta sauce
• Rice pudding
• Tinned fruit
• Long-life milk
• Biscuits
Not needed:
• Pasta
• Rice
• Baked beans
• Soup
• Tinned tomatoes
• Tea bags
• Cereal
These can be donated at the following places:
Waitrose, Wood Street, Kingston
Waitrose, Stone Place, Worcester Park
Waitrose, High Street, New Malden
Waitrose, Claremont Road, Surbiton
Sainsbury’s, Hook Parade, Chessington
Big Yellow Self Storage, 225 Hook Rise South, Tolworth
To find out more about donating food, time and money, or to look into benefitting from the service, visit kingston.foodbank.org.uk.
Cobham
Urgently needed items:
• Tinned tomatoes
• Tinned meat
• Tinned potatoes
• Tinned fruit
• Rice pudding
• Custard
• Sugar (500g)
• Juice
• Sponge pudding
• Chocolate spread
• Toilet rolls
• Ketchup
• Shampoo
• Disposable razors
• Washing up liquid/gel/powder
• Marmite
• Peanut butter
• UHT/long-life milk
• UHT/long-life fruit juice or squash
• Tinned vegetables
• Biscuits
Not needed:
• Pasta
• Baked beans
• Tea
• Tinned sweetcorn and pulses
• Soup
These can be donated at the following places:
Waitrose, Cobham
Sainsburys Local, Cobham High Street
Starbucks, Cobham High Street
Any church in Cobham, Oxshott or Stoke D’Abernon
To find out more about donating food, time and money, or to look into benefitting from the service, visit cobhamarea.foodbank.org.uk.
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