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Our Daily Bread - The Bishop of Derby's Harvest Appeal 2024
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Our Daily Bread - The Bishop of Derby's Harvest Appeal 2024
Responding to food poverty in our local areas.
Many of our churches collect food for their local food bank and provide venues for them.
Yet more run breakfast clubs, lunch clubs, community pantries, shops and other food-poverty projects.
These services are needed because too many people have to make stark choices and face going hungry.
No-one should go hungry. Ever.
This year, please join Bishop Libby in giving generously to projects across Derby and Derbyshire that support those facing food poverty.
> See more information about this year's Harvest Appeal
The impact of the Covid pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, combined with common, challenging life experiences such as bereavement, illness, unemployment and family breakdown, has seen an increasing reliance on food banks.
Difficult choices are having to be made in households: whether to pay bills or buy food, parents and carers going without food themselves to ensure their children have enough to eat.
It is a scandal that in the 21st century, people across Derby and Derbyshire are going hungry and children don't have enough to eat. Systemic change is needed so households can be financially resilient and help themselves.
But in the meantime, we continue to resource projects supporting those who face hunger in our own communities.
As followers of Christ we pray every day our Lord’s prayer, ‘Give us this day our daily bread’.
As we pray this, we are reminded of our connection both to God and to one another. The Lord's Prayer commits us to sharing God’s gifts, especially food, so that nobody goes hungry – and to sharing the good news of God’s love in Jesus, the ‘Bread of Life’.
Supporting the various local foodbanks, kitchens, and food hubs across the length and breadth of our diocese, we want to live out The Lord’s Prayer, responding to real need, expressing our solidarity together and, at a time of Harvest Festival, our deep gratitude to God.
Money given to the Bishop’s appeal will be distributed amongst local providers across the whole county, including:
Derbyshire Peak and Dales:
Glossopdale Food Bank
High Peak Food Bank and Zink, Buxton
Jigsaw Food Bank, Matlock,
Belper Food and Community Hub
Ossie's Kitchen, Ashbourne
Creswell Breakfast Club
East Derbyshire:
Trussell Trust food banks at South Normanton, Chesterfield Loundsley Green, Long Eaton and Sawley, and Clay Cross
Bolsover Freedom Community Food Bank
Chesterfield – Gussie’s Kitchen
Kirk Hallam – Every One Eats
Derby City and Mercia:
The Padley Centre – Padley Pantry
Nourish - Food for those in need, including hot meals for those living in Derby who don’t have access to cooking facilities as they are in temporary accommodation
Derby Food 4 Thought Alliance
Swadlincote – South Derbyshire CVS Food Bank
Thank you for your support.
