If you are struggling to feed your family, you can always get support from your local food bank. Here are the food banks in your area and their opening times:
Rhondda
Acts Community Church – Food Bank
Monday: 10am-12pm, Tuesday: 11.30am-1.30pm and Friday: 1.30pm-3pm
236 East Road, Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF43 3DA
Email: actschurchuk@gmail.com
Hope Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Wednesday: 10am-12pm
Unit 1-2, Dunraven Street, Tonypandy, RCT, CF40 1AN (Accessible via the bottom car park)
Email: info@rhondda.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 07928 451 374
www.rhondda.foodbank.org.uk/locations
Blaenycwm Chapel – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Friday: 2pm-3pm
Wyndham Street, Ty Newydd, CF42 5BT
Email: info@rhondda.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 07928 451 374
Salvation Army Pentre – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Thursday: 10.30am-12pm
Carne Street, Pentre, RTC, CF41 7LQ
Email: Donna.sass@salvationarmy.org.uk
Call: 07425486759
www.salvationarmy.org.uk/pentre
3D Church Williamstown – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm
Arthur Street, Williamstown, CF40 1NE
Email: info@taffely.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 01443520730
Cynon
Gateway Church Cymru – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Friday: 10.30am-12pm
281 Cardiff Rd, Aberaman, CF44 6YA
Email: info@merthyrcynon.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 07427 537 437
Cornerstone Church Centre – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Monday: 10am-12pm
Sion Terrace, Cwmbach, CF44 0AS
Email: info@merthyrcynon.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 07427 537 437
St Donat’s Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Tuesday: 11am-1pm
Aberdare Road, Abercynon, CF45 4NY
Email: info@merthyrcynon.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 07427 537 437
Cynon Valley Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Thursday: 10.30am -12pm
The Lighthouse, 369 Fernhill, Mountain Ash, CF45 3EW
Email: info@merthyrcynon.foodbank.org.uk
Call: 07427 537 437
www.facebook.com/cynonvalleychurch
Salvation Army Aberdare – Food Bank
Tuesday: 2pm-3pm and Thursday: 12pm-1pm
Wind Street, Aberdare, CF44 7ES
Email: Aberdare@salvationarmy.org.uk
Call: 01685886145
www.salvationarmy.org.uk/aberdare
Ramoth Christian Centre – Food Bank
Ramoth, Davies Row, Hirwaun, CF44 9SS
Email: Ramothcc@outlook.com
www.ramoth.weebly.com/further-information
Taf
Pontypridd – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 9.30am-4pm, Tuesday and Thursday: 9.30am-11.30am, and Saturday: 10am-12pm
The Riverside Day Centre, Nile Street, Treforest
www.pontypridd.foodbank.org.uk/locations
Bethel Baptist Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Thursday: 10.30am-12.30pm
Bethel Baptist Church, Heol Miskin, Pontyclun, CF72 9AJ
Carmel Baptist Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Friday: 10:30am-12pm
Carmel Baptist Church, Bridgend Road, Llanharan, CF72 9RD
www.taffely.foodbank.org.uk/locations
The Rock Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Saturday: 10am-12pm
Rock Community Church, Old Infants School, High Street, Gilfach Goch, CF39 8SH
https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-a-foodbank/taffely
Salem Baptist Church Food Bank
Saturday: 10.30am-12pm
Salem Ln, Church Village, Pontypridd, CF38 1PT
Ebenezer Church – Trussell Trust Food Bank
Monday: 10.30am-12pm
Heol Johnson, Talbot Green, CF72 8HR
www.facebook.com/ebenezertalbotgreen
If you need to access a food bank in the Cardiff area, you can find out more, here.
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This piece is from our tenant magazines that you can read online. If you’re living in RCT, you can read our valleys magazine or if you’re living in Cardiff, you can read our y bae magazine.
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