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.

Scroll down to see:

• supermarket drop-off locations
• other drop-off locations
• online supermarket delivery donations

If you are happy to drop off food donations to a store, please see the table below for our food collection point locations:

Location of food donation points	Opening hours	Comments
Tesco Superstore, 209 Lewisham Rd SE13 7PY	0600 – midnight	front of store near exits
Tesco Superstore, Croydon Rd, Beckenham BR3 4AA	24 hrs	front of store near exits
Sainsbury’s Local, 313-315 Kirkdale, SE26 4QB	0790 – 2300	front of store near exits
Waitrose, 1 Southend Road, Beckenham BR3 1SD	0730 – 2200	front of store near exits
Sainsbury’s, 263D New Cross Rd, London SE14 5UQ	0800 – 2200	front of store near exits

Alternatively you can drop off donations to

• Lewisham Foodbank, Hope Centre, Malham Road SE23 1AN
  • Wednesdays 10 am – 12 noon or Fridays 12 noon – 2 pm
• Lewisham Foodbank, Elim Church, 8 – 10 Allerford Road, Catford SE6 2XL
  • Saturdays 10 am – 12 noon
• Lewisham Foodbank, Lewisham Tabernacle, Algernon Road SE13 7AT
  • Tuesdays & Thursdays 12 noon – 2 pm
• Lewisham Foodbank, St James Hatcham, St James, New Cross SE14 6AD
  • Mondays 12 noon – 2 pm
• Conran Estates, 180 Brockley Road SE4 2RR
  • Monday – Saturday 9 am – 6 pm
• The Butchery, 49 London Road SE23 3TY
  • Wednesday – Friday  9.30 am – 6 pm, Saturday 9.30 am – 4 pm & Sunday 11 am – 3 pm
• 25 Manwood Road, Brockley SE4 1AA
  • call Caro on 07971 008252 to arrange delivery
• 37 Girton Road, Sydenham SE26 5DJ
  • call Carol on 07731 846301 to arrange delivery
• 161 Kirkdale, Sydenham SE26 4QJ
  • open 5 – 11 pm Thursdays & Fridays, and 3 – 11 pm Saturdays & Sundays 

DID YOU KNOW… you can also donate food as an online supermarket order!

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