Donate food

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 happy to drop off food donations, please see the table below for our food collection point locations:

Location of food donation point	Opening hours	Comments
Tesco, Altcar Road, Liverpool, L37 8DP	Mon-Sat 06:00-00:00 Sun 10:00-16:00	front of store
Tesco, Hawthorne Road, Litherland, L21 8NZ	Mon 06:00-00:00 Tues-Sat 24 Hours Sun 10:00-16:00	front of store
Waitrose, Three Tun Lane, Formby, L37 4AJ	Mon-Fri 08:00-21:00 Sat 08:00-20:00 Sun 10:00-16:00	at receptionist desk

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.

Please contact us if you have any questions about donating food.

To help ensure that PCP top up on eligible donations, it will become a requirement to explicitly state on the foodbank websites how PCP should be used. by 30 June all  foodbank must state on their ‘donation food’ page.

Tesco and Asda PCOs are intended for food that has been purchased in-store only

Any food that has been purchased in a different store and brought in to the PCP store Should be sealed by the donor and clearly labelled as having purchased elsewhere 

you can also drop off any donations to any of are foodbanks listed on the website 

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