Donate food
Support us by donating food and other essentials.
BankTheFood
The free BankTheFood app provides real-time updates of which items we need.
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More people than ever are being driven to food banks and the sharp increase in people needing help is outstripping food donations.
Your donations are vital to ensure that we can continue to help the people in our community.
We always welcome donations and promise to use them to provide help for local people in crisis. Occasionally we send food to other local food banks to support their work if they have specific shortages.
We also support a small number of local agencies in Basingstoke who regularly provide hot meals, or emergency food items for our most vulnerable members of the community who may not be able to access our centre.
Please contact us if you have any questions about donating food.
What to donate
Items we need
- Angel delight
- Chocolate
- Coffee
- Conditioner
- Cup-a-soup
- Household Cleaner
- Jam
- Long-life juice
- Long-life milk
- Nappies - size 6
- Nappies - size 7
- Noodles
- Powdered milk
- Shampoo
- Snacks (e.g. crisps, cereal bars, etc)
- Sponge puddings
- Spreads
- Squash
- Tampons
- Tinned chicken
- Tinned curry
- Tinned custard
- Tinned fish
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned ham
- Tinned meat
- Tinned pasta
- Tinned rice pudding
- Tinned soup
- Tinned tomatoes
- Toothbrushes
- Washing up liquid
Items we don’t need
- Baked beans
- Cereal
- Hand soap
- Nappies - size 0
- Nappies - size 1
- Nappies - size 2
- Nappies - size 3
- Nappies - size 4
- Nappies - size 5
- Pasta
- Rice
- Sanitary towels
- Vegan milk
Warehouse donations
You can bring your donations, or arrange for an online supermarket shop delivery, to our warehouse on Monday - Friday from 9am - 4pm.
Basingstoke Foodbank HQ and Warehouse
63-64 Tempus Business Centre
Kingsclere Road
Houndmills
Basingstoke
RG21 6XG
Online donations
We’ve partnered with Give Today to make donating food to Basingstoke Foodbank even easier. Give Today makes it really simple for our team to update you with the items we need the most at any given time or even to put bundles together so you can donate to any specific cause at the food bank. You can shop normally on our Give Today page, and we will conveniently receive the donations at our warehouse.
Donation points
You can donate items 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.
Find your nearest donation points below.