Donate Food & Household Items

High Needs List

Our Foodbank has a good supply of many food, hygiene and household items, however there are some specific items that we are in need of. Please see below:

Food:

  • Tinned ham/corned beef
  • Tinned fruit
  • Cooking sauces
  • Long life juice/squash
  • Jams and spreads
  • Tinned vegetables
  • Tinned sweetcorn
  • Tinned fish
  • Sweet and savoury biscuits
  • Christmas chocolates and selection packs
  • Custard
  • Nuts
  • Rice pudding
  • Sponge puddings

Kitchen and hygiene items:

  • Roasting trays (large)
  • Deodorants
  • Laundry liquid/tabs/powder (small packs)
  • 2-in-1 shampoo

Please note:

• We do not accept furniture
• We are currently not accepting clothes, shoes, accessories, bedding or crockery

How to donate

Donations can be dropped off at our Foodbank at Dacre House, 19 Hillfield Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4AA – Monday-Friday 10am-1pm. Additional hours on Wednesdays 4pm-6pm. (Closed on Bank Holidays). For large donations, please contact 01442 250969 or foodbank@dens.org.uk.

Alternatively, you can drop food items in the Foodbank crates after the checkouts at these supermarkets:

Hemel – Tesco Extra Jarman Park (in-store shoppers only), Sainsbury’s Apsley Mills, Sainsbury’s Woodhall Farm

Berkhamsted – Tesco Metro (in-store shoppers only), Waitrose

Tring – Tesco (in-store shoppers only)

Please note: Tesco collection points are intended for food that has been purchased in-store. Any food that has been purchased in a different store and donated at a Tesco should be sealed and clearly labelled as having been purchased elsewhere.

Fundraise

Click here to donate today

By making a financial donation, you can help towards the preparation and distribution of food parcels to struggling local families who are relying on a Foodbank to see them through the next three days.

Keep In Touch

By submitting your details, you are subscribing to receive emails from DENS about our services and ways you can support us.