News
22 Mar 24
New Location
The move to the Midsomer Norton Scout Headquarters is no longer going ahead. Further updates will be posted here.
22 Mar 24
Easter opening
The distribution centres at Peasedown St John and the Salvation Army will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Radstock and Paulton will both be open on Wednesday 27th March and 3rd April.
8 Oct 23
More volunteers neeed.
Somervalley Foodbank Needs New Volunteers for our Warehouse Operation Somervalley Foodbank always needs new volunteers but currently we are in need of volunteers to help at the Warehouse. The days we need help are Monday and Friday. The Warehouse “normally” operates between the hours of 10.30 to 1pm on those days. Working as part of […]
27 Apr 23
Increase in demand
The Somer Valley Foodbank continues to provide food and signposting advice to the people of this area, with distribution centres in Midsomer Norton (Salvation Army Hall), Radstock (St Nicholas Tearooms), Peasedown (Peasedown Methodist Church) and Paulton (The Cellar, under the Methodist Church). People still need a voucher from one of the professional agencies in the […]
28 Jan 23
Somer Valley Foodbank Annual Report 2022
The number of clients has gone back to the 2020 levels and we have not seen the big increase we expected. We have been able to keep up with the demand thanks to the generous donations of local churches, the people shopping in Tesco, schools, individual donors and businesses. However, we had thought that the […]
10 Jan 23
Somer Valley Foodbank feeds 20,000 over ten years
Social welfare project marks a decade of service to the community A social welfare project set up in January 2013 marks its 10 year anniversary this week. The Somer Valley Foodbank, originally established as a collaboration between local churches and community leaders, is nestled under the charitable status of St John’s Church, Peasedown St John.The […]
13 Dec 22
Incredible support for Somer Valley foodbank
The Somer Valley Foodbank held its annual Christmas collection in conjunction with the Trussell Trust and Tesco, from 1 st to 3 rd December. Tesco in Paulton were a great support in hosting the event helping the volunteers with a warm welcome and refreshments. The local community gave very generously, giving: – 597.5 Kgs of […]
18 Jul 22
How the Somer Valley Foodbank works and a big Thank You.
The Somer Valley Foodbank provides emergency food parcels, free, to those “in crisis” — i.e.- with nothing in the cupboard and no money to go shopping. Plenty of people are in that position: our role is to stop those people from starving. Helping clients to get further help to get them out of their […]