Food banks

Chef Pete Zulu leads a Community Kitchen session, showing how to create nutritious meals using ingredients commonly found in foodbank parcels.

Community Kitchen serves up recipe packs food bank users

Aldi stores in the area donated 39,900 meals to charities, foodbanks and community organisations during the school summer holidays.

Aldi donates 39,900 meals to charities

Bede's Helping Hands.

Food bank's drive to stock up its shelves

Hebburn Help's Angie Comerford.

Hebburn Helps prepare to support families over six week school break

Gazette editor Richard Ord with Hebburn Helps founder Angie Comerford.

Meeting the whirlwind blowing good across Hebburn

Tesco Winter Food Collection set to boost stocks of essential food items as FareShare and Trussell prepare for tough winter

Tesco Winter Food Collection set to boost stocks of essential food items as Fare...

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UK's largest supermarket to give away free food items to cut waste

For every gift sent, a donation is made to a local or national charity

Ad Feature This UK company is taking ‘gift giving’ to a new level

People’s shelves are empty, so food banks can’t be - Lynda Battarbee

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne.

Kate Osborne MP ‘takes stock’ on ‘another busy year’

Pupils at West Boldon Primary School with their donations from their 'Boldon in Need' non-uniform day.

School hosts a ‘Boldon in Need’ day to help support local foodbanks

Leader of South Tyneside Council, Councillor Tracey Dixon is pictured with Yacub Ahmed, of South Tyneside Youth Parliament.

South Tyneside's bold plan to eradicate child poverty

Kids eat free at Marco Pierre White's

Video: Kids can eat free or for £1 in summer holidays at these places

Mayor of South Tyneside Cllr John McCabe and Mayoress Julie McCabe.

Tributes paid to outgoing South Tyneside mayor

Foodbank distributing food

Outcry from celebrities as UK foodbank usage doubles

Aldi donates meals to families in need across the region.

Aldi donates meals to families in need across the region
Aldi and Neighbourly partnered up to provide support to families across the UK, with 106 causes in Tyne and Wear benefiting from the initiative.
Holly Allton

Sustainability experts, Business Waste, found that Brits fill around 7 million bins worth of food waste over the festive season.

Unique ways to reuse leftovers and save money this Christmas

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Sausage Rolls donating food to local food banks

Young women from South Tyneside charity donate food to foodbanks

The Steamboat will be hosting the fundraising event for Veterans Response CIC.

South Shields pub to host event for veterans for the second year

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

Foodbank on Ward 10 at Walsall Manor Hospital with Claire Cooper, Senior Sister.

Hospitals forced to open food banks for their own staff

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

Trussell Trust foodbanks need people to donate these items

Can you help with a donation to your local foodbank? Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images.

Food bank donations: The items you can give to lend a hand

Items for food bank

Food banks see spike in demand in South Tyneside during school holidays

Hospitality and Hope's team put together 100 food packages for in-need families across the borough this Christmas

Borough food banks report huge rise in usage over the course of 2020

Paul Oliver has warned food banks face a surge in demand over half term after the Government ruled out providing free school meals during the holidays.

Food banks brace for surge in demand over half term
Food banks in South Tyneside are braced for a surge in demand over next week’s half term break.
James Harrison

Angie Comerford and Paul Oliver

Food bank fears over Covid crisis in South Tyneside

(From left) Chief executive of Hospitality and Hope, Paul Oliver, Jo Benham-Brown manager of the Key 2 Life food bank and Hebburn Helps co-founders Angie Comerford and Jo Durkin.

Food banks to get cash boost over summer

Here's how you can help vulnerable people during the coronavirus pandemic - with...

Hebburn Helps co-founders Angie Comerford (left) and Jo Durkin.

Isolation packs for those affected by coronavirus

Angie Comerford, left, and Jo Durkin of Hebburn Helps

‘Distressing’ situation as South Tyneside sees 2,000 food bank referrals in less...

Unison Branch Secretary Janet Green, South Tyneside Mayor Coun Ken Stephenson and Paul Oliver, of HospitalityÂ and Hope, pictured with items donated to food banks in South Tyneside.

Working together to help families in South Tyneside as '˜holiday hunger' hits bo...

Have you donated to your local food bank?

Food banks handing out record amount of emergency supplies, study finds

Foodbanks could struggle to meet demand this winter unless urgent action is taken to improve Universal Credit.

Charity urges action over benefit issues as food bank demand 'soars'

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