The Abingdon Foodbank is in urgent need of supplies. Donations at Tesco Extra go to the national organisation Fareshare, and those at Aldi and Lidl go to Neighbourly. So if you want to be sure you’re helping the people of Abingdon, use Waitrose, or the Co-Op in West St Helen’s St, or the North or South Abingdon foodbanks. Read more about donation times and what they most urgently need at https://abingdon.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/.
To help support local foodbanks, food larders and community fridges, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils are inviting community food groups to apply for a grant of £2,500 for essential supplies.
To help fight global poverty, there was a Christian Aid stall on the Market Place on Saturday. The stall was run by members of the town’s churches.
Hijack, sorry….but there’s a special council meeting this evening to try and save the Abbey Cinema.
This TC is the same(?) as before the elections last week…. So, if we lose the cinema, we know upon who’s watch it was….
Note – the venue has also been changed to St Nic’s church
Thanks for letting us know about what foodbank stuff collections go where. The foodbank website usefully lets us know what they most urgently need at the moment on the main front page.