News

13 Oct 22

Cambridge City Foodbank is searching for a Warehouse Assistant

Are you looking to join a diverse and friendly team, all while supporting the local community? If you answered yes, Cambridge City Foodbank could be your next move. We’re looking to recruit a hard-working Warehouse Assistant to join our team. In this paid position, you’ll be supporting the Warehouse Manager in the operation of the […]

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10 Oct 22

Cambridge City Foodbank welcomes new CEO

Cambridge City Foodbank is delighted to welcome Steve Clay as its new Chief Executive Officer and successor to Margaret Saner, who has served as volunteer CEO for two years. Steve, who is set to join Cambridge City Foodbank on 1st December 2022, is currently CEO of YMCA Black Country in the West Midlands and brings […]

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16 Mar 22

Cambridge City Foodbank expands food poverty support with new Fairbite shop in East Chesterton

Cambridge City Foodbank has opened a second Fairbite shop, located in East Chesterton and run in partnership with the Hope Church. Since April 2020, Hope Church has been running a Community Food Hub, supported by Cambridge Sustainable Food and Cambridge Food Poverty Alliance, with 40-50 households regularly using the service. Moving on from the initial […]

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20 Dec 21

Christmas Opening Hours

23rd December: Cambourne, 10:00 to 12:00 23rd December: Church of the Good Shepherd, Arbury, 11:00 to 13:00 23rd December: Alpha Terrace, Trumpington, 14:30 to 16:00 24th December: C3 Centre, Coldhams Lane, 10:30 to 14:00 24th December: St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, CLOSED 27th December: All Centres CLOSED 28th December: All Centres CLOSED 29th December: Northstowe, […]

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1 Nov 21

Cambridge City Food Bank Christmas Hampers 2021 – now complete

NEWSFLASH – we have reached our goal of 500 hampers and are not accepting any more offers. Thanks for your interest – we will run again nest year. ————- Although Cambridge is considered a prosperous area, the reality is that there are many families who struggle financially and Christmas is a very difficult time. Saying […]

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29 Oct 21

Red Hen Project online success

Hilary, one of Cambridge City Foodbank’s wonderful volunteers, has also been busy running an online cookery programme for families in need in Cambridge, with the Red Hen Project. Through the programme, each week, for six weeks, 10 families in North Cambridge receive a bag with all of the ingredients they need to cook one recipe. […]

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29 Oct 21

Spotlight on the St Paul’s Church Monday team

For this month’s volunteer spotlight, we spoke with Odile who has been volunteering for Cambridge City Foodbank for around seven years, and David who first joined the Chesterton team two years ago, before moving to the St Paul’s Monday team at the start of the pandemic. Odile and David discuss the importance of creating a […]

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30 Sep 21

Spotlight on Northstowe

In June we opened our new centre in Northstowe to provide greater support to individuals and families in this area of Cambridgeshire. We spoke to Ilse and Makepeace, who have both volunteered at Northstowe since its opening, about what’s changed over the past three months and what they see coming next. What has it been […]

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27 Aug 21

Welcoming our new Signposting Coordinator

This month, we spoke to Lindsey who joined the Foodbank team at the beginning of August as our new Signposting Coordinator. The role is completely new to the Foodbank – one which has been introduced to increase our capacity to offer advice and support to help our visitors find long-term and sustainable solutions to their […]

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30 Jul 21

Spotlight on Church of Good Shepherd

For our July volunteer spotlight, we have been speaking with Jen, one of our core Church of Good Shepherd (CoGS) volunteers. Jen joined CoGS at the start of the pandemic and quickly took on a leadership role; since then, she has done a fantastic job of keeping one of our busiest centres running, while keeping […]

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