{"id":55,"date":"2016-12-20T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ablewelladvice.org.uk\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2024-08-29T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T22:14:26","slug":"food-bank","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/?page_id=55","title":{"rendered":"Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"two_third\">We are a distribution centre for the Black County Food Bank, enabling us to offer support to local people who are experiencing temporary difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons that people may need to access our Food Bank include: benefit delays, sanctions, temporary reductions in income, debts or setting up home after a period of homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>To receive help from the Food Bank, you will need to obtain a Food Bank voucher. If you need help to do this please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/?page_id=22\"><strong>Ablewell Advice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Food Bank relies on donations from the public. We welcome donations of non-perishable food items, toiletries (including nappies)\u00a0 and pet food. Please see our list of current shortages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AblewellAdvice\"><strong>on Facebook<\/strong><\/a> for details of items we are in need of at the present time. Donations can be brought to our offices during out opening hours (Mon, Weds, Fri 10am \u2013 2pm, Sat 11-1pm) or delivered to Methodist Central Hall in Walsall by arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Food Bank opening times are:<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday 10am \u2013 2pm<br \/>\nWednesday 10am \u2013 2pm<br \/>\nFriday 10am \u2013 2pm<br \/>\nSaturday 11am &#8211; 1pm<\/p>\n<p>If you have a BCFB voucher and are seeking help outside of these hours a list of alternative local Food Banks can be found here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackcountryfoodbank.org.uk\/\"><strong>www.blackcountryfoodbank.org.uk\/<\/strong><\/a><br \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_third last\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ablewelladvice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Foodbank-1.jpg\" alt=\"foodbank-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Foodbank-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Foodbank-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<div id=\"framed_box_15c5a1e54e012bdad74e4fff89ac438b\" class=\"framed_box rounded aligncenter nomargin\" style=\"border-color:#e01f77;\">\n\t<div class=\"framed_box_content\">\n\t\t\n<h2>Current food bank shortages&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>* Tinned meat<br \/>\n* Tinned fruit<br \/>\n* Tinned puddings<br \/>\n* Cooking sauces (like pasta sauce)<br \/>\n* Jam<br \/>\n* Shower gel<br \/>\n* Shampoo<br \/>\n* UHT milk<br \/>\n* Fruit juice<br \/>\n* Mashed or tinned potato<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"framed_box_space\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/533"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablewelladvice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}