Donate food

Support us by donating food and other essentials.

BankTheFood

The free BankTheFood app provides real-time updates of which items we need.

More people than ever are being driven to food banks and the sharp increase in people needing help is outstripping food donations.

Your donations are vital to ensure that we can continue to help the people in our community.

Items we need

As of 30/09/2025

  • Hand soap
  • Hot tinned meat
  • Jam
  • Long-life juice
  • Rice
  • Shampoo
  • Shaving foam/gel
  • Tea bags
  • Tinned custard
  • Tinned soup

Warehouse donations

You can bring your donations, or arrange for an online supermarket shop delivery, to our warehouse during our opening hours. Please call: 07843 838499 or email: warehouse@newcastlestaffs.foodbank.org.uk to arrange a delivery.

If you are not able to get donations to us, our warehouse can accept supermarket deliveries when it is open, or you could donate money to enable us to purchase items we are short of.

Address

Newcastle Staffs Foodbank
Unit 18
Brock Way
Newcastle-under-Lyme
ST5 6AZ

Opening hours

Monday: 14:00pm-16:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00am-12:00pm

Donation points

You can donate items by leaving them at donation points at the following locations. Your donations will be delivered to us, where we’ll pack them into emergency food parcels. 

Please note our donation points in Tesco stores are intended for food that has been purchased in-store. Any food that has been purchased in a different store should be sealed by the donor and clearly labelled as having been purchased elsewhere.