News | North Cotswold Foodbank

26 Aug 26

We’re Recruiting!

Volunteers are the driving force behind our food bank, helping us to get emergency food to people in crisis. We don’t ask for any specific qualifications, but you need to know that there might be some lifting involved, and it’s also really helpful if you have basic computer skills. We are currently looking for volunteers […]

17 Aug 26

North Cotswold Foodbank appoints new Foodbank Manager

North Cotswold Foodbank announces the appointment of a new Foodbank Manager, Roger Guy. Roger will succeed Kevin Carden who, after seven years in the role, will take on a new position as Development Manager where his focus will be on strengthening relationships and forming partnerships with other charities and agencies, to develop the service we […]

30 Jul 26

Newsletter Summer 2026

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2 Jun 26

Thank you to our wonderful foodbank volunteers

This week is Volunteers’ Week, a national campaign recognising the incredible contribution volunteers make to society. So we want to say a heartfelt Thank You to every member of our foodbank volunteer team. Every week our amazing volunteers turn up, sort out donations, stack shelves, pack food parcels and greet the people who come to […]

26 Apr 26

Cheers! It’s tea and cake for our fantastic volunteers

Cheers! That was the mood when volunteers from North Cotswold Foodbank gathered for a tea party thrown in their honour. North Cotswold Foodbank is run almost entirely by volunteers and Foodbank Manager Kevin Carden thanked everyone for their help. “We couldn’t survive without you,” he said. Special thanks went to friends and family in the […]

24 Apr 26

Thank you North Cotswold Rotary

North Cotswold Rotary has come up trumps with a £654 donation used to fund two new iPads for North Cotswold Foodbank. The volunteers who run our outlets at Stow and Bourton are over the moon. There’s nothing worse than trying to get the admin done with a tired tablet that keeps crashing. Now Paula Nielsen-Tickner […]

12 Apr 26

Jo’s a food bank trouper

Former journalist Jo Cooper is celebrating ten years as a volunteer for North Cotswold Foodbank. “I’d written about Trussell Trust (which set up food banks) many times as part of my job, so when the opportunity to join a food bank on my doorstep in Bourton came along in 2016, I didn’t hesitate,” she said. […]

31 Mar 26

Newsletter Spring 2026

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20 Mar 26

1,800 emergency food parcels provided by North Cotswold Foodbank last year

North Cotswold Foodbank provided 1,794 emergency food parcels to people facing hardship in the last year, according to new figures released last week. The parcels supported 480 local households, 44% of which were families with children. The 2025 figures are broadly similar to 2024. However, the increase in food bank need in the Cotswolds since […]

2 Jan 26

It’s toot, toot Tooty goodbye…

…and thanks for everything When Tooty Gibbs set up a food bank in Chipping Campden in 2012, she didn’t think it would be for long. More than 13 years later, the backbone of what became an essential part of North Cotswold Foodbank, is hanging up her green fleece and saying goodbye. Her volunteer mission began […]

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