Donate food & essentials
As the cost of essentials continues to rise, many households need our emergency support. Your generosity will directly help local people.
Each item donated makes a difference to those we support, ensuring we provide everyone with a balanced and nutritious supply of food and essential items. Your donations are vital to ensure that we can continue to help the people in our community.
What to donate
Items we need
As of 19/02/2025
- Baked beans
- Nappies
- Pasta
- Rice
- Tinned meat
- Tinned soup
Items we don’t need
As of 19/02/2025
- Cereal
- Coffee
- Tea bags
- Tinned fish
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned vegetables
Buy a virtual food parcel
A new way to donate! If you would like to donate food but are not able to get to the shops then you can contribute to the cost of a food parcel, we will purchase donations on your behalf.
We use JustGiving to handle our donations, clicking below will direct you to our JustGiving page.
Warehouse donations
You can bring your donations to us, or arrange for an online supermarket shop delivery to our warehouse during our opening hours.
Opening hours
Monday - Friday between 10am-2pm
Warehouse Address:
Supermarket donations
You can also donate items during your supermarket shop by leaving them at donation points at the following locations. Your donations will be delivered to us, where we’ll pack them into emergency food parcels.
Donation points
- Co-op Funeral Care North Berwick and Tranent
- Co-op Gullane
- Co-op Longniddry
- Co-op North Berwick
- Co-op Ormiston
- Co-op Port Seton
- Co-op Prestonpans
- Scotmid Co-op Prestonpans
- SPAR Pencaitland
- East Lothian Public Libraries (check opening hours)
- Tesco Haddington (in-store shoppers only)
- Tesco Musselburgh (in-store shoppers only)
- Tesco North Berwick (in-store shoppers only)
- Thomson’s of Tranent
Please check individual shops for opening and closing times.
Online donations
Give food online via ForCommonGood or on Amazon.
Our wishlist highlights the items we’re most in need of – and it will be delivered directly to us.
Find your closest donation point
Search for a donation point close to you