Food Drives and Food Collections

Why Organise a Food Drive?

1 in 4 households with children currently face food poverty. Hosting a food collection in your workplace, school or community centre is a brilliant way for everyone to get involved and help make a difference in our local communities.

What food?

Ideal foods are long-life, cupboard staples: packets of rice, pasta, grains, pulses, tins, jars, long-life milk, fruit juice & squash.

We cannot accept alcohol. 

For more info download the  City Harvest Food Drive Guide 

How to do a food drive

Hosting a food drive in your school, your workplace, your local community centre is a brilliant way to make everyone feel involved in helping out local communities.

At City Harvest we are always really grateful for the long shelf-life products, pastas, rice, grains that make such a vital part of a complete meal to go alongside the fruite and vegetables that we deliver to our community partners every week.

We’ve made hosting a food drive for City Harvest as simple as possible. It really is just a case of getting touch with us via email or phone, and we will look after the rest for you.

So, first of all decide on the dates that you want to hold your food collection. This is toally up to you. It could be four days, one day, a week or a month. Whatever is going to work for you, your school, your work place. Then you will need to decide where you want your food collection to be. We would recommend somewhere with a high footfall. So, maybe a staff canteen, maybe a reception area, somewhere where you can have some boxes on display and somewhere you know that people are going to see it and not forget about it.

Once we have the details from you we will be able to support you with a downloadable asset pack, which will have lots of marketing materials in which you can use as much or as little of as you want. 

The ideal types of food to cellect at a food collection are the long shelf life products that you would usually find in your cupboards. So, rice, pasta, tins, baked beans, tins of soup, tin vegetables, anythign that’s going to really help go a long way in creating a meal with some of the other fresh produce that we deliver.

Location

If you are based within the M25, all we ask is that you fill up a minimum of three large boxes (see video) of food and we will come and collect them from you for free.

If you are outside the M25, we ask for a minimum of 25 boxes, but we can also happily arrange a collection from you and help you with that.