• Do you need help
    with making ends meet?
    We can help you get the help you need
    by discussing your circumstances to get
    an emergency food referral and
    a development plan
    GET HELP
  • Let's bring
    change together
    Work with Crescent Food Bank to bring food
    to the tables of each and every household.
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  • Partner with us
    to bring about change
    Help us achieve our goals and work on pooling
    our resources together to make poverty abolished.
    LET'S WORK TOGETHER
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Mission Statement

To prevent or relieve food poverty by providing food aid and relief goods

Respect

We affirm the dignity and contribution of participants, donors, partners and volunteers

Compassion

We always uphold and protect the integrity of the people served by the food bank, we put their wellbeing above everything else

Justice

No one should face hunger and poverty, we are motivated by the desire to ensure a more just society

Community

We believe change comes from working together, regardless of background. We should share the responsibility to support one another

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Help us advance our mission by partnering with us to share your skills, services and products or refer at need individuals to us.

 

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We believe change comes from working together, help us achieve our mission of wiping out hunger and poverty from our community by sharing your time with us.

 

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Need Help?
Get in Touch Now

You can get in touch with us directly, by referral from one of our partnering agencies or get in touch to learn more about how our partners could help you.
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Our Impact

With our community's support we are able to enrich many lives:

I am crying when I opened the front door and see so many things, thank-you!

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19977

People Helped

699195

Meals Provided

6568

Parcels Delivered

116

Tons of Food Distributed

Food Poverty Facts

Learn more about the food insecurity in Bolton & UK and the way its citizens struggle.

Bolton

Under 37% of Bolton's children are living in poverty, struggling to eat and attending school without socks and underwear.

Youth Poverty

DWP placed Bolton in the top ten boroughs where young people under the age of 16 are living in both relative and absolute ‘poverty’

Poverty

In Bolton, 28% of people are living in absolute low income households, placing eighth in the country

BAME

Sustain UK estimates that 8.4 million people in the UK are living in food poverty, with BAME, disabled and older people worst affected.