Christmas at the Foodbank

Hunger doesn’t stop for the holidays. Help us fill our shelves and end 2025 with 2025!

While winter brings celebrations for many, it also brings added pressure for families already struggling. Budgets stretch thinner, heating bills rise, and the expectation to provide whether for festive meals or simply to keep warm can feel overwhelming.

For those facing hunger and financial hardship, this time of year doesn't bring relief. It brings anxiety.

This Christmas, we're asking you our supporters to help us achieve something extraordinary: 2025 in 2025 - collecting 20,000kg of food and raising £25,000 to ensure no one in our community goes hungry this winter.

Our mission stays the same: to provide crucial emergency support to local people in crisis. This winter, we're working to keep our shelves stocked, but we can't do this without you. Will you help us?

Here are a few ways you can support us this Christmas.

#end2025with2025 #20000kgofhope #25kofkindness

Help our ELFs hang baubles of hope and decorate our tree

#25Kofkindness #baublesofhope

This Christmas, we're filling our virtual tree with baubles of hope.

Our ELFs have started decorating, but we need your help to complete the tree.

Every decoration helps buy food and brings hope, warmth, and nourishment to families in our community this Christmas.

Choose your bauble, watch our tree come to life, know that you've made a difference to someone's Christmas

Choose your bauble today

Online tree displaying fundraising total

Fill Our Shelves with Food

Help us reach 20,000kg of food donations this Christmas

There are two great ways to donate food to the foodbank this festive season

#fillourshelves #20000kgofhope

Reverse Advent Calendar

Ready for some Festive fun? Become one of our ELFs and download our Reverse Advent Calendar and see what items the foodbank needs.

How it works:

Download our calendar

Collect the items yourself or gather a team

Tick off as many of our 24 essential items as you can

Drop off your full box when you're ready

Start collecting today as we count down to Christmas!

Printing it off in greyscale, saves ink and keeps it looking lovely

Drop Off Food Anytime

Can't do a Reverse Advent Calendar? No problem! You can donate food items whenever it suits you.

What we need most: Check our social media or website for our current most-needed items list - it changes regularly based on what's running low.

Where to donate:

Our warehouse: 3 Civic Square, Tranent (Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm)

Local drop-off points: Find one closer to you using the link below

Every tin, every packet, every donation helps us put meals on the table for local families.

Spread the word

#baublesofhope #25kofkindness #filltheshelves2025 #20000kgofhope

Spread the word with friends, family, and on social media. The more people who know, the more impact we can make together.