Donate food
Support us by donating food and other essentials.
More people than ever coming to our Foodbank Welcome Centres because they have been left with no other option but to turn to us for help. The sharp increase in need is outstripping food donations.
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 12/01/2026
- Cleaning sponges
- Household Cleaner
- Instant coffee
- Long-life juice
- Long-life milk
- Noodles
- Pasta sauce
- Sanitary towels
- Snacks (e.g. crisps, cereal bars, etc)
- Sponge puddings
- Tampons
- Tinned custard
- Tinned pasta
- Tinned rice pudding
- Tinned spaghetti
- Tinned tomatoes
- Tinned vegetables
- Washing powder
- Washing up liquid
Items we don't need
As of 12/01/2026
- Baby food
- Baked beans
- Bottled water (still)
- Boxes of tissues
- Cooking sauce in packets
- Incontinence products
- Mince pies
- Pasta
- Powdered milk
- Tinned soup
Please note that we can only accept non-perishable, ambient food that is in date. We would be pleased to take fresh fruit or vegetables but only with prior arrangement. We cannot distribute alcohol, bottled water, medicines or infant formula. We also cannot distribute food that is chilled, damaged, opened, past its 'best before' date or packages of more than 1kg in weight.
Warehouse donations
We have recently moved to a new location:
6 Nuffield Close, Cambridge CB4 1SS
You can bring your donations, or arrange for an online supermarket shop delivery, to our warehouse during our opening hours.
| Mondays | 10.00am - 1pm |
| Thursday | 6.15pm - 7pm |
| Fridays | 10.00am - 1pm |
The warehouse will not usually be open on Bank Holidays.
Supermarket donations
You can donate items during your supermarket shop by leaving them at donation points at the following locations. Volunteers will deliver your donation to our warehouse, where the team will sort and pack them into emergency food parcels.
Donate through BankTheFood app
Download the free BankTheFood app and follow Cambridge City Foodbank for real-time updates of which items we need.