Contact numbers: Janet on 07733 541923 (Mottram Hall) or Steph on 07897 141895 (Outeach Centre)

Dan Jarvis MP for Barnsley Central visits the Gateway FoodBank (2013)

Every Thursday 11am-1.00pm @ Mottram Hall, Town (opened 21/02/2013) and Outreach Centre, New Lodge (opened 01/10/2015) - where there is also a Clothes Bank.

Food packing team with Dan Jarvis MP

Clients will require a voucher, available thro' a local agency in Barnsley...

Barnsley Citizens Advice Bureau

Berneslai Homes

BMBC Connexions Service

BMBC Homeless Prevention Service

Christians Against Poverty

South Yorkshire Credit Union

& many more...

Clients receive 3 days worth of nutrionally balanced food. Therefore, any donations of dried, packet or tinned food (in date) will be gratefully received for distribution.

Please can you help replenish our stock. These are the items (see below) we particularly need. You can either drop them off on Sunday at 3.30pm, or any Thursday between 10.30am and 12noon. Please purchase Supermarket's value brands (more for your money)

Thank you for your support.

Tinned Tomatoes

Tinned Carrots/Peas/Sweetcorn/Potatoes

Tinned Fish (Tuna)

Tinned Rice Pudding/Fruit

Packet Custard

Packet Rice

Packet Sugar

Tea

Coffee

Powered Milk

Drinking Chocolate

Packets of Cereals

In 2013 Gateway Food Bank, was the first to open in Barnsley, feeding 2058. In 2014 the Food Bank fed 1725 people (the decrease was due to a number of other Food Banks opening across BMBC).

For a political angle, read Barnsley's MP Michael Dugher's blog, after his visit to the Gateway Foodbank.

Scroll down his blogs to 11 May 2013.

http://www.michaeldugher.co.uk/blog.html