6, Jan 2025 | Uncategorized
BFB Hive has landed! In December we launched our latest project, a community café and kitchen, with a community room which will hold lunch club sessions and community groups, an office space for partner agencies to engage with service users, and a laundrette. The café...
28, Oct 2024 | Uncategorized
When you read ‘Harvest Festival’, what do you think of? Perhaps it’s pumpkins and gourds, maybe it’s gratitude and giving, or possibly the shortening days ahead. At Bassetlaw Food Bank, the Harvest Festival period is full of generosity. Each year local churches,...
13, Jun 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s not every day that you see one of your star volunteers and staff members on TV! But last Friday we had the chance to see volunteer, Nancy, and Operations Manager, Ellen, on the big screen. To mark National Volunteer’s Week, Bargain Hunt premiered a special...
8, May 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s an exciting time for Bassetlaw Food Bank’s ‘Grow It, Fix It’ project. The team are busy planting seeds and have currently planted 27 species of fruit and vegetables including multiple varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, spring onions, potatoes and...
12, Sep 2023 | Uncategorized
If you’re a follower of our social media pages then you might have noticed that, as part of the ‘Grow It, Fix It’ project, we have an apiary. This is an area in which beehives are kept. Amazingly three of our trustees are beekeepers, so we’re picking up tips and...
30, Jun 2023 | Uncategorized
Our latest venture, ‘Grow It, Fix It’, is an allotment, orchard and white goods repair project for local residents, based in Manton next to the Food Hub. We have several community allotment plots, a polytunnel, a fruit tree orchard and apiary, and a workshop and...
21, Apr 2023 | Uncategorized
April 2023 marks 10 years since Bassetlaw Food Bank was established as a charity. What was born from the desire of caring community members to support Bassetlaw residents dealing with food insecurity has continued with its core mission and has expanded in other ways...
23, Mar 2023 | Uncategorized
Did you know that over 90% of the food sent out in emergency food parcels is donated by residents, community groups, and businesses in Bassetlaw? All donations make an incredible different to those dealing with food insecurity. At present there are more food,...
27, Feb 2023 | Uncategorized
The Bassetlaw Community Shop was established in response to the cost-of-living crisis. The aim is to support the rural areas of Bassetlaw which are disproportionately affected by the increased cost of food, fuel and energy bills due to barriers such as living in a...
16, Jan 2023 | Uncategorized
Since September 2021 we have been running a Lunch Club and in May of 2022 we relocated from Worksop to the Harworth and Bircotes Town Council as there was greater demand for sessions. Then in August, thanks to funding from The Wheatcroft Fund, we employed a Lunch Club...
