NEWS & EVENTS
The Gryphon School Harvest Collection
We are grateful to The Gryphon School for organising a Harvest Collection from 23rd September to 11th October. The school is collecting non-perishable (in sealed packs/jars/cans) food and drink items from the food bank's most wanted list, including: tinned soup,...
Successful School Holiday Campaign!
We would just like to say THANK YOU to everybody who supported our successful school holidays campaign! We were able to provide extra support packages for struggling families with children, including sweet and savoury snacks, drinks and sandwich ingredients. This was...
Can you help our summer holiday campaign?
For many families in our local community the summer school holidays brings an added challenge with the struggle to feed their children – young people who during term-time receive free school meals but are left in need during the summer break. Sherborne Food Bank is...
Persimmon South West Community Champion
Local housebuilder, Persimmon South West, has made a donation of £1,000 to Sherborne Food Bank as part of its Community Champions initiative. The donation was recently marked by a visit from Rob Clark, Land & Planning Director for Persimmon South West, to the Food...
NFU Mutual Agency Giving Fund donation
NFU Mutual allocates a £1.92m national fund to support local frontline charities, NFU Mutual’s Agency Giving Fund. To ensure that this fund is distributed across the UK, NFU Mutual invited its Sherborne agency to nominate a local charity to receive an equal share of...
2024 AGM & Volunteer Get Together
On Saturday 22nd June we welcomed volunteers, supporters and referrers to the Food Bank’s annual AGM and volunteer ‘thank you’ event, held at The Digby Hall in Sherborne. We’re grateful to Persimmon Homes for supporting our volunteers by sponsoring the event,...
