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Watch Salisbury foodbank on France 24 International TV News Following enquiries, we would like to confirm that the foodbank centre gives food to clients like this family in used supermarket carrier bags, as if they had been shopping.
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Salisbury area gives more Christmas Boxes than ever before!
The people of Salisbury have donated a whopping 1200.6 kg of food and £123.83 to The Trussell Trust's foodbank.
The recent food collection outside Waitrose was The Trust's largest supermarket collection in 2008 and is equal to 60 emergency family food boxes.
50 Bulgarian children living in poverty are looking forward to dry housing this winter thanks to The Trussell Trust and local retired builder, Mike Hatch.
The Trust repaired 13 badly leaking roofs in Botevgrad Roma Community, helping to make the freezing winter much more bearable for almost 100 people. Mike Hatch gave his time for free, the gypsy community helped provide labour and The Trust co-ordinated the project and provided the materials.
MORE >> Watch our video on Vision News TV here
Building a Bulgarian playground:
Local team gives time for free to bring delight to disadvantaged children.
Local team gives time for free to bring delight to disadvantaged children.
Two weeks of hard labour and sleeping in an orphanage school's gymnasium may not be everyone's idea of a holiday. For Peter Jackson and The Trussell Trust's Neil Emery and Chris Graham, however, volunteering to build an adventure playground for orphaned or abandoned children in Bulgaria was worth it when they saw the children's grins. MORE >>
Bags of clothes to send abandoned Bulgarian children on a summer holiday.
The Trussell Trust, is asking people to donate bags full of re-usable clothes to help raise funds for their annual summer camp. Every year The Trust takes 40 disadvantaged Bulgarian children on a 10 day beach respite camp. With only two months to go until this year's camp, funds are running low, so the charity has come up with an ingenious solution. MORE >>
News Updates
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The Old Mill at Harnham is running a pub quiz in aid of The Trussell Trust on Tuesday 23rd December at 7.30pm, entry £1.50 - bring your friends and your thinking caps!
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Jack and the Beanstalk: Forest Forge Theatre are putting on a pantomime with all proceeds going to The Trust on Fri 9th January 2009 at 7.30pm in Godolphin School's Blackledge Theatre, phone Karen McKeown for tickets 01722 335704
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Our Christmas cards are now onsale, click here to see the two cover designs. These can be bought at ReStore, Salisbury Tourist Information Centre, the foodbank centre and Tutu Pan Pan, as well as mail order. Call
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Tutu Pan Pan, our new joint venture art gallery, opened on Friday 21st November - pop in to 40 Winchester Street and have a look
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6 foodbanks are opening this autumn!
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33 foodbanks are now launched across the UK.
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Huge amounts of harvest food was given to foodbanks across the country - thank you!
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Our annual Christmas Boxes for Bulgaria campaign has now closed, thank you to all who gave so generously - 3,350 boxes from the Salisbury area - a record! Visit our trip blog at http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/trusselltrust/1/tpod.html to see how giving the boxes is going.
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Our new Ebay trading assistant and Amazon books projects are now up and running and looking for volunteers. Call
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