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Waterloo Foodbank Heroes: Jac and Gill

Jac and Gill are the legends of Waterloo Foodbank. Twin sisters from the local area, every day without fail, at least one of them visits the Oasis Centre with donations. Come rain or shine, they are there with their shopping trolley full of food, so desperately needed to keep our foodbank going. Recently, we sat […]

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My volunteering story

My year at Oasis Waterloo Hello, I’m Ash, a software engineer with the Civil Service! For nearly a year now, I’ve been a regular volunteer at Oasis Waterloo. Since it’s National Volunteering Week, I thought I’d share a bit about my experience here. Having worked in food retail during the pandemic, I knew how valuable food banks were to communities and saw […]

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Christmas 2021 Appeal!

Help us to continue our transformative work in Waterloo by donating to the Foodbank. One of our crucial fundraisers has been cancelled this year so please consider donating to help us provide emergency food support and advice services in Lambeth. Donate today: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/waterloofoodbankchristmas2021

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Stowe Family Law supports Waterloo Foodbank

We were really grateful to recently recieve a very generous donation from Stowe Family Law. This donation will help ensure those in need in our local area can recieve vital support this winter. We are so pleased that Stowe Family Law chose to support us, every donation makes a huge difference to us. Thank you […]

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Centre reopening

We’re delighted to say, after 18 months we will be reopening some of our centres for collection for food parcels. We’re continuing to work closely with Vauxhall, Clapham Park and Norwood & Brixton Foodbanks. As the Lambeth Foodbanks Partnership, we are able to best support those in our community with a colloborative approach to running […]

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Newsletter Volume 2

Foodbank Newsletter Mar 2021

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Newsletter Volume 1

Foodbank Newsletter Feb 21

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The stats are in….

39,425 people in crisis in Lambeth and neighbouring boroughs provided with food during the last year New figures released by Lambeth Foodbanks today reveal a staggering 127% increase in the number of people we have provided emergency food to in the last year. 15,240 emergency food parcels were provided feeding a total of 39,425, 15,020 […]

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Christmas opening times

18th December is our last day for donations. If you can’t drop off donations before this date, please hold onto them until the New Year. You can find details of where to donate on the “give help” > “donate food” page of our website After 16th December we will only be taking referrals in absolute […]

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Christmas Crowdfunder

Waterloo Foodbank exisits to ensure no one in Waterloo goes hungry. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we have seen referrals to our Foodbank increase by 130%. 2020 has been a challenging year for us all and this year, Christmas will be an especially difficult time for many, an additional stress piled on top of the […]

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