Harvest 2025 is on October 19th at all three services, so please scroll down to see how you can donate to York Foodbank.

This quarter’s focus will be on Foodbank, linked into our giving of food at Harvest time.

If you’d like to know more about how we already partner with York Foodbank, click here.

Love Your Neighbour - Harvest and York Foodbank

Our Autumn Love Your Neighbour focus continues to be on food, and working towards making sure everyone in York has the essentials to live.

So how can you get involved?.

So what does this mean?

  • Harvest is when we celebrate God’s goodness in providing us with all we need, with particular reference to food

  • We’ll organise the collection of donations from the De Grey Rooms to the York Foodbank warehouse.

  • Watch out for our Social Action inserts in the Friday newsletter, and on social media, and be ready to bring much needed items to your Sunday service, or consider donating in the ways suggested below. 

WAYS TO DONATE:

  • bring food items to all three services on Sunday 19th October

  • do an online supermarket shop (from any supermarket) choosing direct delivery to the York Foodbank Warehouse to arrive on Tuesday or Thursday mornings 9:30am - 1pm. The warehouse address can be found here.

  • select items from our Amazon Harvest wishlist for direct delivery to the De Grey Rooms. You will need an Amazon account, and if you have Prime, your delivery will be free. We will open the wishlist on Sunday 12th October and the link will be here.

  • donate financially to York Foodbank by going to their Donate page here.

Other ideas:

York Foodbank

Each week in the Friday newsletter, we give details of the most needed items, or why not download the BankTheFood app to get up-to-date needs when you’re at the supermarket?

And, this quarter, we’ll be listing the item most needed - so keep an eye out!

CAP debt clients

Did you know every time our debt coach visits a new client they takes along a pack of biscuits?  You may be surprised how much this means to them as often they haven’t had people being kind to them, and it moves the emphasis from a business meeting to one of friends visiting to help.

Could you buy some good quality biscuits for them to take?

Carecent

Carecent is a breakfast centre run from Central Methodist Church for all homeless, unemployed or otherwise socially excluded members of the community.

The Belfrey has supported them at Autumn time before, but this year they’re asking mainly for monetary donations as they don’t have storage facilities for foodstuffs.  To find out more, and to donate, please go to their Harvest website page.

Supermarkets

All the major supermarkets in York (and some of the smaller ones) have places you can pick up and donate food.  Why not check out the Bank the Food app when you’re shopping and add something the York Foodbank needs to your shop?