Can you help?
If you would like to donate items for those in need in the area, the Foodbank helps local people in crisis. The Bognor Regis centre opened in 2012. The church community has since then been a collection point for donations and during the Covid crisis, provided the hall for use by the Foodbank.
Thanks to the volunteers from Bognor Regis Methodist Church who sorted and took items to the Foodbank every week and were involved in promotions and posters to share with attendees and the local community.
Please note from October 31, 2025, any items for the Foodbank should be taken to alternative collection points as the church building off Waterloo Square will no longer be able to collect items.
Westergate Methodist Church is also a collection point, and on Fridays between 12pm and 2pm is open to those in need of support from the Foodbank.
Bognor Regis Foodbank moved to St Wilfrid’s Church in the autumn of 2025.
Find out more at the Bognor Regis Foodbank website and follow its updates on its Facebook page.
What does a Foodbank do?
The Foodbank provides three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to them in crisis. It is part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, which works to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The Bognor Regis Foodbank is a project founded by local churches and community groups, working together towards stopping hunger in the local area.
More details about Bognor Regis Foodbank
Donate food to the Bognor Regis Foodbank. The website and the charity’s Facebook page publishes lists of food that is particularly needed that week. For example, tinned fruit, pasta sauces, tinned soup, tinned potatoes, pasta, and so on.
Donate money to help the Bognor Regis Foodbank
Directions and opening times for the Foodbank. Note, in Autumn 2025, this moved from its location on Argyle Road to The Hope Centre, St Wilfrid’s Church, Ellasdale Road, Bognor Regis, PO21 2SG.
Foodbank vouchers are needed to access help from the centre. Information on how you can get the vouchers. Everyone who comes to the foodbank for emergency food needs to have a valid foodbank voucher.
During the pandemic, BRMC hosted the local foodbank
While operating from the hall at Bognor Regis Methodist Church, Bognor Foodbank distributed food to 4,976 people in our community, including 1,803 children under 16. We continue to encourage all in church and community to support the work of Bognor Regis Foodbank who seek to both offer emergency food parcels and support people out of crisis, and as part of the Trussell Trust network lobby local and national government on issues of poverty and injustice in our society.
Hannah, Project Manager at the Foodbank, said: “Having the Church Hall space has been an incredible blessing, and has ensured the continued distribution of food parcels to so many people in our community who have been in crisis during the pandemic. Thank you for responding so immediately and continually to the need. We are so grateful for offering the space, and how flexible you continued to be as we all navigated the various twists, turns and delays experienced as the government have looked to ease or amend restrictions.”
July 2021
Purpose Fulfilled: Foodbank
November 2020 update