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Donate food
Our foodbank relies on your goodwill and support.
Over 90% of the food distributed by foodbanks in The Trussell Trust network is donated by the public – that’s why your food donations are absolutely vital to our ability to give everyone referred to us a balanced and nutritious three day supply of food.
Our shopping list on the right shows the food items that we need right now.
If you are buying in local shops see the table below for our food collection point locations. Please note, Tesco is for donations purchased in store only. If you wanted to drop direct to us you can do so to our signed location at Wealden District Council (near the top of leisure centre car park) between 9-11 any weekday morning
| Location of food donation point | Opening hours | Comments |
| Tesco, North Street, Hailsham | 0600 – 2200 | Food purchased in store only – exit |
| Waitrose, Vicarage Field, Hailsham | 0730- 2000 | wall beyond checkouts |
| Nationwide, 1 George Street, Hailsham | 0900-1700 | Check days when open |
| Hailsham foodbank, 4 Market Square, Hailsham | 0800-1500 | Mon-Fri (call first to check open) |
| Asda, The Quintins, Hailsham | 0800-2200 | Wall beyond checkouts |
| Superdrug, The Quintins, Hailsham | 0900-2730 | Near checkouts |
| Co-op Food, Upper Horsebridge Road | 0700-2200 | near checkouts |
| Waitrose, Station Road, Heathfield | 0700-2200 | wall beyond checkouts |
| Co-op Food, High Street, Heathfield | 0700-2200 | wall beyond checkouts |
| Iceland, High Street, Hailsham | 0900-1700 | entrance to store |
| Sainsburys, Station Road, Heathfield | 0700-2200 | wall beyond checkouts |
| Co-op Food, High Street, Horam | 0700-2200 | |
| Ripe Village Stores, Church Lane, Ripe | 0900-1700 | Mon-Fri (close 1300 Sat) |
| Hellingly Community Hub, The Drive | 0900-1700 | In foyer |
| Kings Church, Station Road, Heathfield | 0830-1500 | Mon-Fri |
| Tesco Express, South Road, Hailsham | 0600-2300 | Near exit |
| One Stop, High Street, Polegate | 0700-2200 | |
| Chris Bartholomew, South Street, East Hoathly | 0800-1700 | Mon-Fri |
PLEASE NOTE: SHOPS MAY HAVE REVISED OPENING TIMES SO DO CHECK WITH EACH STORE.
We always welcome donations and promise to use them to provide help to people in crisis. Occasionally we send food to other nearby foodbanks to support their work particularly if they experience shortages. This ensures your donations go to help people wherever in the UK they are.
BANKUET
If you don’t necessarily shop locally or sometimes forget to pick up a donation then do go to https://www.bankuet.co.uk/hailsham where you can buy a food parcel that contains only the items we need the most and it gets sent direct to us.
FOR COMMON GOOD
We are often short of toiletries, household goods such as washing tablets and certain size nappies. You can choose an item from our registry and it gets sent direct to us. Find our registry at https://www.forcommongood.co.uk/apps/giftregistry/find?name=Hailsham+foodbank.
BANK THE FOOD
To have our most up to date list of most wanted items download the BanktheFood app onto your phone.
Please contact us if you have any questions about donating food.