HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND
A Household Support Fund grant of £2,261,298 has been confirmed for Reading borough to provide cost of living support to households in the
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2023 ReadiFood Food Parcels
Yet again we saw an increase in demand for food parcels in 2023 at almost 10,000! For full details go here
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Every little helps – Ukraine
ReadiFood are pleased to have been able to contribute towards deliveries of food to Ukraine. Thrilled to be able to share from our
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Clarify Team
One of our long term regular corporate teams in again today sorting our incoming food stocks. Many hands do indeed make light work.
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Stepping Aside
Towards the end of 2022 I suggested to the Trustees that I felt the best way ahead for the charity was not to
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New Director
We are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Director to FAITH Christian Group. Andy Dickens, a member of Reading Family Church,
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Queen Elizabeth II
Great Britain will perhaps never be quite the same again. Queen Elizabeth carried with her a continiuity dating back 70 years. Having lived
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Foodbanks unnecessary! Not quite what he said.
Shocking headline in the Telegraph. The mind rather boggles on first reading of the headline that anyone, even a sitting M.P. in the
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Supermarket food supply problems
The Co-op Group has warned of continuing problems with food supplies and inflation after revealing that profits more than halved last year amid supply
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HEALTHY START VOUCHERS
The Healthy Start scheme helps low-income pregnant women and young children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to buy fruit, vegetables, pulses, milk
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Bishop’s Visit
It isn’t everyday of the week that the Bishop visits! We were privileged recently to have a visit from the Bishop of Oxford,
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2021 Parcel Totals
Although not quite exceeding our 2020 record we still delivered over 9,000 parcels to local residents in 2021. That deserves a huge thank
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Shop and give – Give as you live
Have you started thinking about the Christmas treats you’ll be choosing this year? You can now support FAITH (ReadiFood) by shopping online
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Support us while you shop online
Just go to your favourite online stores via the Give as you Live site and we reap the benefits. Thank you! Sign up
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ReadiFood delivers thousands of parcels to people during coronavirus pandemic
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/19027242.readifood-delivers-thousands-parcels-people-coronavirus-pandemic/
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TEN THOUSAND PARCELS DELIVERED!
As we enter a new year and review it is amazing to see that last year we broke through the 10,000 parcel ceiling!
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Alison on Radio Berkshire
Alison Peyton – Food Bank Manager interviewed on Radio Berkshire Monday 14th December Three segments of interviews with Brigitte Tetteh at the ReadiFood
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Big Thank You for Food Donations
We are really grateful to everyone who has donated food over the past months. We have faced unprecedented demand for food parcels due
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SHOP and DONATE at NO COST to YOU
From presents to food, the costs can add up quickly, but you can support FAITH CHRISTIAN GROUP whilst shopping thanks to grocery cards
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Parcel Requests 2020
In 2019 we delivered 8,500 food parcels to residents in the Greater Reading area. That equates to around 7,000 individual adults and children
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Parcel Demand Spike creates call for new coalition on poverty
The Trussell Trust reports a soaring 81% increase for emergency food parcels from food banks in its network during the last two weeks
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Volunteering during the Coronavirus pandemic
Please note that we are currently not actively recruiting new volunteers due to social distancing requirements We have changed how we do things
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Donate NOW!
Please help us during his difficult time Every time you shop online you could raise FREE ££’s for us! It takes 2 mins
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Food Needs & Donations April 2020
We are facing challenges in staffing and volunteers through social distancing and self isolation requirements Please note that we are still accepting food
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CORONA VIRUS
Note that we are not recruiting new volunteers but PLEASE KEEP DONATING As we are sure everyone will understand we face some very
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What 3 words?
The mobile phone app “what3words” has randomly allocated the words “edits.proper.dinner” to one of the 3 square metres of our building. We thought
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Lord Bourne visits Reading
Lord Bourne, Minister for Faith, visited Reading University on 28th June 2019 to meet with various representatives of Faith Groups working in the
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Gather National Summit – Transforming Cities across the U K
As Director of FCG I was privileged to be part of the 2019 Gather Summit in Milton Keynes this week (26/27 June 2019)
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BBC news item – May 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Benefits_and_bulgar_wheat
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Vans
We are very blessed to have been able to buy a nearly new Nissan Van It’s great for towing the Tea Bar We
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Asda Tilehurst – Fight Hunger
Asda in Tilehurst will be supporting ReadiFood ongoing by having a trolley to collect donations for our clients who are in need of
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Annual Food Donation from Pangbourne College
Every Christmas we receive a huge amount of food and toiletry donations from Pangbourne College and this year was no different. The children,
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Facial Recognition at a food bank?
Questions are being asked about the ethics of using facial recognition within the context of food banks and vulnerable people. ReadiFood are a
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Grant from the John Sykes Foundation
We are extremely delighted that we are the latest recipient of a Cost of Living Crisis Grant from the John Sykes Foundation. We
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