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Your money makes a difference
Times are hard. Demand for food from Nourish remains very high. At the same time, our food donations have fallen significantly and to make up the shortfall we are having to purchase more food. These extra costs come on top of the charity’s operating costs, which are all rising too.
We need your financial support. It does make a difference. Please donate to us if you can.
Make a donation now
All donations are welcome. Large or small, regular or one-off, they all help us to support local people in crisis.
Please give what you can.
Regular donations help us to be more sustainable and cost-efficient, and to plan for the future. Please give regularly if you can.
Other ways to donate
There are other ways you can support Nourish, from selling your unwanted items on eBay to playing TW Lotto.
Text Giving
Text FOOD5 to 70085 to donate £5 as a one-off
Text MEAL5 to 70085 to donate £5 a month
If you want to give more, replace the 5 with the amount you wish to donate, eg FOOD20 or MEAL30
If you don’t want to receive further text contact, add NOINFO at the end of your text
Text Giving Terms and conditions
Text donation is an easy way to give. With this service the money is taken from your mobile phone account or pre-pay balance and paid to us by your network provider.
Nourish Community Foodbank will receive 100% of your text donation. You may also be charged for one text message each time you text us at your network provider rates. The charge will show on your bill.
If you would like to remain completely anonymous to Nourish Community Foodbank, please add NO INFO at the end of your text.
Our text-to-donate service is powered by Donr, a tech-for-good organisation that builds technology to handle the challenges charities face and inspire their fundraising efforts. Donr’s website can be found here: https://www.donr.com/
When you donate via text, you’ll receive a reply from Nourish thanking you for your donation. This text will include a helpline number for Donr – if you have any questions regarding your text donation, contact Donr by email at hello@donr.com or phone 0333 4444 777 or visit their FAQs page at: https://www.donr.com/information-for-charity-supporters
Please ensure you spell the SMS keyword MEAL5 or FOOD5 carefully, and that you enter the correct shortcode (70085). Always get the bill payer’s permission. You must be 16 years or over to send a text donation.
Nourish Community Foodbank cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any mobile telephone network or line, system, server, mobile provider or otherwise which may result in any text being lost or not properly received.
Your donation may be eligible for Gift Aid. Donr may contact you on the mobile number you used to give you the opportunity to add Gift Aid to your donation. If you visit a webpage to submit your details you may incur charges from your network provider, as with any mobile browsing.
If you access the Internet from a mobile phone you may incur data charges. Please ensure that the connection you use is secure and take reasonable security precautions when clicking any URL or filling in any mobile web form that we might send to you.
Please don’t try to donate using this number from outside of the UK. If you donate using this service from a UK mobile outside England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, you may incur additional network charges.
Play TW Lotto
Sign up to TW Lotto, choose Nourish as your charity and 50p of every £1 you play goes straight to us. A further 10p goes towards other local good causes.
Donate through Payroll Giving
Payroll Giving is a way of giving money to charity and the taxman gives a little too, so for every £1 you give, HMRC donate another 25p. Employers use specialist agencies like Charities Trust, Charitable Giving, Benevity or Charities Aid Foundation to organise it. Ask your employer how you can support Nourish tax efficiently.
Donate via PayPal
Make a quick and easy one-off donation from your Paypal account or payment card
Sell on eBay and donate
When you sell on eBay, nominate us as your favourite charity and donate a percentage of the final selling price to Nourish.
Donate as you shop
Nominate Nourish as your cause and when you shop online at your usual websites we get a small percentage, at no cost to you.