Download our Impact Report 2025! Download our Impact Report 2025! Click Here 2025 marked a significant shift for MK Food Bank – not only in how people accessed our services, but also in how we show our community who we are. While overall need fell by 14% the balance between our services continued to evolve. […]
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MK Marathon runs a host of running events here in Milton Keynes on the 3 – 4th May, and we have been lucky enough to have several fundraisers help us with our cause. Whether its running the 5k, Super Hero fun run, Marathon relay, Half or Full Marathon – the MK Food Bank team will
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Fancy a challenge! Our latest appeal is for families and friends across Milton Keynes to help support MK Food Bank with this fun challenge, and you could win a fantastic sweet hamper kindly donated by M & M Supplies! All these donations will help our low stock levels to make sure everyone who needs food
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Calling all budding chefs: MK Food Bank Teams Up with The Holiday Inn Milton Keynes Central to find the MK’s next Young Food Champ. MK Food Bank was delighted co-host the MK Food Champ final competition with the team at The Holiday Inn, Milton Keynes Central, that challenged local young people from years five to
MK Food Bank celebrates new Corporate Partnership with Holiday Inn, Milton Keynes! MK Food Bank is delighted to welcome our new corporate partners from Holiday Inn, Milton Keynes! After seeing our Ops Manager Louisa at MKBLP event reaching out to business leaders across the board, she appealed to the small but mighty group about wrapping
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With our supporters’ base growing we have had a number of schools, companies and individuals asking about fundraising opportunities for MK Food Bank, which got us thinking. MK Food Bank is not just about food donations, we support local communities and charities as well as vulnerable families with 400+ food parcels distributed weekly, and more
Numbers, statistics, data. I’m literally surrounded by them.. We’re experiencing a cost-of-living crisis that’s getting worse every day and I’m trying to find a way to tell you about it. My desk is littered with scraps of scribbled calculations, I’ve three spreadsheets open and I’m having to google once again how you work out a
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Refugees in Milton Keynes As the country reels from the escalating cost of living crisis, I wanted to focus today’s blog on a more uplifting story. One that is all about solidarity, collaboration and the well-known global unifier that is football! Early in March, four men turned up at the Food Bank warehouse in Kiln
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Why fuel poverty + food poverty is threatening the most vulnerable By Louisa Hobbs, Operations Manager MK Food Bank Every day MK Food Bank volunteers speak to dozens of individuals and families who need emergency food. There are many reasons why people find themselves in the horrible, scary situation of being unable to buy food for themselves and
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At MK Food Bank, we’ve felt the impact of this unusual year. The number of people needing emergency food parcels has gradually dropped from an all-time high in 2020 but the longer-term financial impacts of the pandemic have contributed to our overall distribution being around 34% higher now than at this point pre-pandemic. Against this backdrop we
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