News
25 May 21
Lunch Club – Free Lunches for Children this May Half Term
With help from amazing local businesses like Andi Oliver‘s Wadadli Kitchen, Climpson & Sons, The Duke of Richmond, The Proof Bakery, and Idia’s Community Kitchen charity, Hackney Foodbank will be handing out free children’s packed lunches from all of our distribution centres, Tues- Fri during the May half term from 11.30am onwards between 1 – […]
28 Apr 21
Support from ustwo
Ustwo, a fantastic digital studio who also run great initiatives to help young Londoners develop their career in the digital and creative industry, have kindly donated an amazing amount of £8,000 to Hackney Foodbank! From Michelle Capocefalo, Growth Partner at Ustwo: ustwo is a digital design studio. We have a global footprint, but we’re […]
27 Apr 21
Support from Lewis Global Communications
Lewis Global Communications is a global marketing a PR agency and one of their employees, Josh Bygrave was recently gifted £1000 to donate to a charity of his choosing. Josh wanted to give to a food bank which helped a lot of people and he chose Hackney Foodbank! From Josh Bygrave, Copywriter at Lewis Global […]
29 Mar 21
Free School Lunches For Children This Easter Half Term
With the amazing help of local businesses and organisations like The Duke of Richmond, The Prince Arthur, Climpson & Sons, The Proof Bakery, Chick ‘n’ Sours, Rosemary Works School, Andi Oliver‘s Wadadli Kitchen and Gray’s Inn Kitchen, Hackney Foodbank will be handing out children’s free school lunches from all of our distribution centres, every day […]
19 Mar 21
Support from The Little Wine Shop
The Little Wine Shop opened in 2018, with the ambition to be a neighbourhood shop which sells good wine to the good people of Stoke Newington. Since then they have been building their business by establishing close relationships with their customers who are drawn from the local community. In December 2020, they donated a generous amount of £1500 […]
17 Mar 21
Support from Agilia
From Ben Duffill, Corporate Manager of Agilia: It’s a pleasure for us to support Hackney Foodbank; the amazing work you do is making a big difference to the lives of those most in need. We at Agilia care deeply about our community, so it’s important to us to make this donation. Thanks to all of […]
11 Mar 21
Kye Lockwood joins Hackney Foodbank as CEO to lead on its organisational restructure
Hackney Foodbank is delighted to announce the appointment of Kye Lockwood as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). An inspirational leader, Kye, joins Hackney Foodbank from Social Action for Health, where he led a dedicated team of staff, volunteers, session workers and associates who shared a passion to create a fairer society. The CEO role he […]
5 Mar 21
Drum up funds for Hackney Foodbank with Speaker’s 5km walk
Families and residents are being encouraged to go the distance in a sponsored walk for a charity providing ‘incredible support for people in crisis’. The Speaker of Hackney, Cllr Kam Adams is organising a virtual 5km walk to raise money for Hackney Foodbank between 10-17 May, with those signing up receiving a free t-shirt to […]
4 Mar 21
Support from The Worshipful Comany of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers
The Coachmakers raise and distribute charitable funds for causes connected to our industries, certain institutions within the City of London and deserving, disadvantaged members of society and they have decided to support us with a generous donation! From David Landon Cole, Member of the Charity Committee at The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness […]
26 Feb 21
Support From psLondon
From Nicola Cast, Head of Client Partnerships at psLondon: 2020 was such a tough year for so many people, and we knew we wanted to do something to help. Our creative (branding and marketing) agency has been in Hackney for the past seven years and, after some research, we knew that donating to Hackney […]