Part of the Festival Church Project
Festival Park
Ebbw Vale.
NP23 8WQ.
0845 600 77 80
Latest Statistics
This year foodbank Ebbw Vale has seen rapid growth in every area of the project. The following statistics show our achievements to date:
Clients:
Total Clients Fed: 2,400
Partner
Agencies:
Action
for Children
Age Concern
Benefits Office
Blaenau Gwent Domestic Abuse Service
DAFS
Drugaid
Job Match
GOFAL Cymru
Hi! Help Inside
Pension Service
Shelter Cymru
Social Services
Speakeasy Advice
Hafan Cymru
The Wallich
Transitional Support Team
Home Start
Communities First
Community Health Visitors
Church on the Rise
Christchurch
Citizens Advice
The Police
Victim Support
Ebbw Vale foodbank in the press
We have recently received great press coverage about our project.
Recent
stories can be read
at:
Case Studies
Nigel, Foodbank Client
Nigel lost his council home after a fire and has been living in a small flat near Brynmawr.
On the Friday morning before the May Day bank holiday, he discovered he would be unable to access any money as a result of a delay in his benefit.
Benefits staff supplied him with a food voucher to help him out, and Nigel was so desperate for food, he walked the 10 miles from his home to the food bank in Ebbw Vale.
Foodbank volunteers supplies Nigel with two bags of food - a variety of tins, pasta, biscuits and breakfast cereal - as well as money for a bus ticket home and even a lift to the bus stop.
Nigel said "It's helped me a lot. Things are really bad at the moment. I missed signing on because I was ill,"
"It makes you feel good inside. I like to do things for people and it's nice to know that there are people out there willing to do things to help me."
"They have helped me out in every way I could have hoped for. It gives you hope. It's not just the food and the money, it's the fact that someone cares."
