Harvest Festival at Queen Anne's

Harvest Festival is nearly here!

You are all super collectors! Please make this year another incredible year for QAS Donations.

On Wednesday 4^th October we hold our Harvest Festival in the School hall

As we celebrate harvest time and the many good things we enjoy in life, we give thanks for our world and remember in prayer and action those who have less than they need.

Each year we collect for ReadiFood, a Reading based charity providing food and other necessities to those individuals and families who frequently go without enough to eat.

Each year at Harvest, Queen Anne school is one of Readifood’s star donations please help us to make this year another one.

Please could you bring donations any day between now and next Wednesday morning  (Oct 4^th) to your houses, where there will be a collecting box Or crate  in the next few days.

These can then be taken to the hall for the service on Wednesday morning 4^th Oct.

RECOMMENDED DONATIONS:

PRIORITY NEEDS: Tinned tomatoes, tinned vegetables; carrots, peas, sweetcorn etc.  cooking oil, packs of biscuits, tinned meat, pot noodles, , nappies size 5, 6, 7 & 8, bay wipes, baby shampoo, baby soap, baby lotion, nappy rash cream, long life or UHT milk, 40s tea bags,  Basmati rice, rice pouches, cartons of juice, drinking squash, coffee.

SPECIALIST FOODS NEEDED: Dried noodles, dried lentils, dried couscous, plain flour.

General foodbank needs are: Tinned fruit, tinned & instant potatoes, tinned ready meals, rice- 500g & 1kg bags, baked beans, soup (tins and cuppa), cooking sauces, tinned fish, cereal, tea, coffee, sugar, cereal bars, sweet & savoury biscuits, tinned & dried pulses, packet desert (custard, angel delight), sandwich spreads, jam, plain flour, gluten free items, vegan items, crisps & toiletries.

Though we do not actively request fresh items,  we will accept some items, if in date and have a few days of shelf life remaining. We also take many different long life items, so please do call us if you are unsure as to whether we will accept them.

We currently have a large stock of pasta and gluten free pasta, so we are not in need of pasta donations, thank you. Please go to our home page to see how we are donating surplus pasta to be added to food aid parcels in Ukraine.

We are unable to accept donations of baby milk. This is under UNICEF guidelines to foodbanks in the U.K

We also give out: Toiletries

Urgent Food needs are; Tinned vegetables, tinned fruit, tinned/instant potatoes, tinned deserts, tinned ready meals, (chilli, curry, chicken in white sauce, meatballs etc) biscuits, crackers, baked beans, chopped tomatoes, cooking sauce, rice, cereals, tinned fish, tinned meat, spreads, nappies, shampoo, toothbrushes, tea, coffee, long life milk, soup.