Do you think pubs are the right place for foodbank collections?

[dottypotter]

I noticed a local pub was collecting for the foodbank and asking for advent calendars to be donated.
Do you think pubs are the right places or dosent it matter?

Do you think they will get many contributions?

I would of thought supermarkets were best as people are doing their shopping there.
The pub often puts on it's social media it's collecting too.
I don't know it's just seems odd to see a pub advertising these things.
Maybe it's just me?

I run a food bank, I’d happily partner with one of the local pubs if they were willing. Maybe that should go on the to do list for next year!

I’m currently buying hundreds of boxes of mince pies and little selection boxes; can’t see any issue at all with advent calendars. Most of our beneficiaries are not Christian so we tend to go with slightly more generic chocolates but I don’t understand the problem.

Our local pub is the collection point for toys for children at Christmas. I’ve ordered my toys from Amazon and will be popping them in the box soon. They very helpfully did a list of age appropriate toys for old fogeys like me.

Many advent calendars aren't actually cheap, things like lego and minecraft and other specialty ones. Even if it's only cheap ones though why do you have an issue with them trying to do something good, maybe it won't work, but what's your problem with them even trying?

I really don't get why you are arsed enough about this to be posting about it.

Ds school runs a donation thing every Christmas and we go through the list and tick things off the categories, we’ve bought some advent calendars to put in this year!!
Didn’t realise this might be a controversial donation 😂

The more donation points the better imo, even better would be actual donation buckets - people can get way more generous when pissed!
Okay let me just say, even better than the above would obviously be that they weren’t needed at all. But here we are.

I don't really see your point? Just because the pub is collecting, that doesn't mean the supermarket won't have collections as well. It's not an either/or thing. The pub collections will be an additional thing, not the sole source of food bank donations. The food bank won't have chosen the pub as a collection point - the pub will have decided to have a collection for the food bank. It will be in addition to other things the food bank already does to gather donations.

Pubs do charity stuff all the time, especially community local type pubs with regular customers.

Why?

You're being very weird about pubs.

Have you never been in one?

As many places as possible I guess. I mean I'm not about to go round to the pub with a bag of groceries but it may be convenient for some. A toy drive might be better.

What, exactly, is your problem with any of this?

A pub is running a charity collection. This has zero impact on you. It doesn't matter if you don't understand how it works. Just carry on with your day and stop being weird about a totally normal thing.

Yes, advent calendars can be bought cheaply. So can a bag of pasta or a tin of beans, but there are still people who need to use food banks for those, so why do you think they'd have money to spend on advent calendars? Jeez. It's a nice thing for a kid who doesn't normally get nice things. Nobody's telling you that you've got to take part in any of this.

I personally hate donating to food banks in supermarkets, my thought process is I have to remember to get extra in my tesco shop- to name but one supermarket , then i have to remember after paying to take it out of the bags and put in trolly ( have forgotten more than once) so adding to Tesco's profit, when i'd far rather give the money as i believe Tesco should supply at cost, or supply a discount / whole sale price for bulk purchases meaning foodbank gets more. So i donate to a foodbank directly who i ring every couple of weeks to ask what's running low. but because of storage space the one i donate to doesn't really want things like chocolate. I'd happily donate in a pub/ local business as i can add items i had at home that i don't need- I'm not going to bring them with me to Tesco to put in their trolly.

I also occasionally help supply a woman who cooks meals for those who can't, some homeless, she delivers to a whole load of people in the area she lives in, so she will let people know eg there is a pensioner with two cats and no cat food, a man living rough could use some toiletries, funnily enough last year she said she would hand out any spare chocolate santas or advent calenders people had.

Don't kids from families needing food banks deserve them?

There goes somebody who doesn't understand why so cheap to people with food is still unaffordable luxury to those without the basics

Well clearly the pub that knows its customers thinks otherwise and the foodbank that understands its clients would welcome them, so maybe just accept that sometimes other people know things you may not?

Our local does this and gets lots of donations.

a pub seems the ideal place - people spending money on non essential items - compared to a supermarket where many shoppers will be closely monitoring what they spend.

Why not?? Surely anywhere that the community comes together is a good collection point?

A pub is as good a place as any

One thing to watch out for with Advent calendars is that the food bank needs a bit of time to work out what it’s got, and then to distribute on the days that clients come in. So if you want to give an Advent calendar, do it asap, ideally today

Pubs are everywhere. I am currently sat in a library. Libraries are often drop off points (not sure if this one is - it's only tiny. Many libraries have limited opening hours.
There are 4 pubs in a 3 minutes walk radius.
So if all the pubs were collecting - that's 5 places I can choose from.
Isn't that convenient?
Yes.....it is.