Can you help us re-stock our storerooms to ensure that hundreds of vulnerable people can access vital food and nourishment?
Our annual Harvest Campaign brings together our community in a shared effort to support those most in need. We have launched this year’s campaign with a renewed sense of urgency. For the first time in a long while, our food stores have run completely out of some of the essential food items need to provide daily meals for the people we support.
This year’s appeal is a direct response to the unprecedented demand for our services. The campaign aims to replenish our storerooms, ensuring that hundreds of vulnerable people have access to vital food and nourishment as the colder months approach.
“We have never seen such a high demand for our food services. This year, the need is greater than ever, and for the first time in a long time, we’ve had moments this summer where our shelves of items like baked beans and tinned vegetables were completely bare. We had to purchase urgent supplies to provide a varied and balanced meal that day to people in need, and that’s a wake-up call. We rely on the generosity of our community to help us ensure no one goes hungry. Our Harvest Campaign is more crucial than ever.”
Denis Tully – CEO, Emmanuel House
Food provision at the Support Centre and Winter Shelter
Emmanuel House operates a homelessness Support Centre and the Nottingham Winter Shelter. We provide over 150 breakfasts and 120 lunches weekly at our support centre. We anticipate providing around 4,000 breakfasts and 4,000 dinners at our Winter Shelter, which reopens in October. These meals are a lifeline for people who are homeless and are often the first step in their journey towards moving on from the trauma of homelessness.
What to donate to our Harvest Campaign
We are calling on the community to help by donating essential non-perishable food items. To avoid food waste, we have put together a list of our most-needed items:
Ingredients
- Granulated sugar
- Jars of cooking sauces
- Herbs and spices
- Stock cubes
- Instant gravy granules
- Baked beans
- Tinned meatballs and meat
- Tinned tomatoes
- Tinned veg
Breakfast
- Individual porridge pots
- Cereal – Weetabix, Shreddies, Coco Pops, cornflakes, rice crispies, muesli
- Marmalade
- Strawberry and raspberry jam
- Peanut butter
- Marmite
- Chocolate spread
- Long life semi-skimmed milk
Snacks
- Biscuits
- Snack bars
- Cereal bars
- Pot noodles
- Instant pasta pots
- Greggs vouchers
Drinks
- Instant coffee
- Decaff coffee
- Decaff tea
- Hot chocolate
- Orange and blackcurrant cordial
- Cartons of juice
- Fruit and herbal teas
Where to donate to our Harvest Campaign
- Please bring your non-perishable food donations to Emmanuel House Support Centre, 53-61 Goose Gate, Hockley, Nottingham, NG1 1FE between Monday to Friday 9:30am to 4:30pm.
- You can order non-perishable food from our Amazon Wishlist and it will be delivered straight to our door.
- You can order supermarket vouchers for us to buy fresh food. When purchasing the gift cards, please use the following for the ‘recipient information’:
Recipient name: Emmanuel House
Email address: donations@emmanuelhouse.org.uk
Address: 53-61 Goose Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1FE
- If you’d like to make an online supermarket delivery, please get in touch so we can let you know what we’re most in need of that week: donations@emmanuelhouse.org.uk
If you have any queries about your donations, please get in touch: donations@emmanuelhouse.org.uk
If you are a food supplier or hospitality business, please get in touch to discuss any other items or services you could help us with.
How your group can support our Harvest Campaign
Please let us know if you’d like to borrow one of our branded donation bins for your shared spaces. Unfortunately, we can’t collect donations so we’d really appreciate it if you could bring them all to the support centre.
School support
If you are a school or college, please consider sending our Harvest Bingo or harvest poster through your school newsletter or apps, or put a poster up on your school noticeboard.
Business support
If your business or organisation would like to arrange a collection amongst colleagues, clients or employees, please consider sending our harvest leaflet through your staff WhatsApp groups or send it through your Slack channels.
Faith or community group
If your faith or community group would like to arrange a harvest collection, please consider including the information in your newsletter or putting the poster up on a noticeboard. We’d welcome any social media shares.
FAQs
No, due to our staff capacity and limited transport, we’re unable to collect food donations. If you are struggling, why not club together with friends, family or colleagues and make a group donation. We also have an Amazon Wishlist that enables you to order items online that will be delivered to Emmanuel House by courier. You can also order food online from other retailers and ask for it to be delivered to us.
Yes, please get in touch and we’ll provide you with a list of items we specifically need for that week.
Unfortunately, due to food hygiene regulations, we can only accept food that has been cooked in a kitchen that is registered with the Food Standard Agency and can provide a food hygiene rating certificate.
Unfortunately, we’re only open during the week. Please get in touch and we’ll see if we can make alternative arrangements through our charity shop.
Yes, but please get in touch and we’ll provide you with a list of items we specifically need for that week: donations@emmanuelhouse.org.uk.
