Food Donations

Wants and needs

Our needs are detailed in a weekly update that’s sent out, largely to Street Heroes, by our office team. Click here to receive these updates.

Facebook is another great place to follow alerts regarding the items that we are particularly short of.

We use everything that is donated so long as it doesn’t contain alcohol, out of date, opened packets, home-made food or food in excessively damaged packaging. 

*see ‘your parcel‘ section for more information about ‘Best Before’ and ‘Use By’ dates.

Donations at supermarkets

Many local supermarkets support One Can Trust by providing a collection point in their store. If you’re doing your food shop, you can simply pick up a few extra items for the food bank and place them in the One Can Trust donation cage before you leave.

Please only place items purchased from that supermarket in its donation cage. This helps the store manage donations correctly and ensures that items donated through its collection point can be accepted and processed safely.

Please note: We can accept most in-date, unopened food, but cannot accept alcohol, opened packets, homemade food or food in excessively damaged packaging.

Street Heroes

You may have noticed our yellow signs and tubs around the town where people in the local community kindly collect food from friends and neighbours and bring it to our warehouse in Duke Street. You can read more about our Street Heroes here.