Food Bank

St Peter’s holds a monthly Food Bank collection

Food Bank collection

On the first Sunday each month St. Peter’s acts as a collection point for donations to the local Food Bank. People are very generous and regularly give whatever they can in the way of non-perishable food items and toileteries. We deliver the donations to the Salvation Army in Keighley, where they are sorted and distributed to local people and families in crisis.

Suggested items are: UHT milk, tinned meals, pasta sauce, tuna, sardines, salmon, chick peas, kidney beans, micro noodles, pasta, rice, jam, peanut butter, spread, tinned potatoes, dry rice, packet mash, tinned fruit, rice pudding, custard, ham, corned beef, luncheon meat, nappies, baby wipes, shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, deodorant (and empty Bags for Life or sturdy shopping bags to be used in distribution).

If you need help from the Foodbank, please see below:

Keighley Salvation Army :

salvationarmy.org.uk/keighley  High Street, Keighley, BD21 2LJ   keighley@salvationarmy.org.uk   01535 603494

They provide emergency 3 day food provision and other practical support every Thursday between 12.30pm and 2pm. They can only accept professional referrals for food support.  Referrals should be requested and sent by no later than 4.00 pm on a Wednesday afternoon for collection the following day from the Keighley Salvation Army Church and Community Centre. They recommend that you obtain an online referral through your Doctor’s Surgery, Primary School, Housing Association or Social Prescriber

Ilkley Food Bank:

ilkleyfoodbank.org.uk  07596 108212 or 07761 440897  General enquiries info@ilkleyfoodbank.org.uk

They cover the LS29 postcode area, They require an initial referral  through a recognised agency such as a GP practice (via the social prescriber), the Citizens Advice Bureau, local schools and churches, social services, mental health services, housing associations or other social support organisations (referral form is on website). Once a referral has been received, clients can then visit their shop in Ilkley to pick up food and other essentials. The shop is open at All Saints’ Church (Skipton Road – traffic lights cross road in central Ilkley) Monday 2pm – 4pm, Wednesday 2pm – 4pm, Saturday 10am – 12noon