Any Foodbank volunteers?

[Tobythecat]

Ive started buying a few things every week for the food bank and i was wondering if it was better if i bought multipack items like chocolate biscuit bars, sachets of hot choc so they could be divided to help more people in need. Or do they not split multipacks of indivudually wrapped items?

Also, what sort of things do you wish people donated more of?

You're best to ask your local food bank as they're all different in terms of policies and needs.

For my local one they don't split packages of anything, and at present are happy for any stock at all.

My nearest food bank will only split multi packs if the individual internal packets each have a best before date.

This cancels out things like large boxes of teabags containing undated inner sealed foil packets.

Each bank will have their own policies, so it's best to ask them.

I run one and personally I would only split industrial packs of toilet roll and kitchen roll. I'm not about to hand a 32 roll pack of Charmin to one person rather than splitting it into bundles of 4 for lots of people. We don't tend to work on the 3 day policy some of the larger banks give though, they may be more inclined to split larger packets down.

That said we do packs for the homeless which we do split stuff like down into individual/immediate use (otherwise some will be discarded as a burden to carry/potentially stealable).

In a nutshell, check with your local foodbank!