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Welcome to Oxford CEFCEF stands for Community Emergency Foodbank Emergency changes to the running of the Community Emergency Foodbank (CEF) - 19 March 2020Video 1: changes to how you will get your foodVideo 2: information for referring agenciesCEF Trustees have made essential changes to the running of CEF. Our clear priority is to maintain the service whilst ensuring the safety of our volunteers and clients of CEF. Therefore, it was agreed that, for the time being, it was no longer appropriate for people to collect food from our 3 sites at St Francis Church, Holloway; Barton Neighbourhood Centre and Littlemore Baptist Church. During the COVID 19 Crisis all our referral agencies have been sent an electronic referral link to be completed by them. All food parcels will be delivered direct to people's doors. If any referral agency has not received this link, please contact info@cefoxford.co.uk From 1st April a delivery service has been set up for all those who have been referred to us. At the moment this is on a Tuesday and Friday morning. All those referred will be contacted by phone prior to a delivery being sent out. In the meantime we thank our donors for their great loyalty and generosity and our great team of volunteers for their tireless work. In 2019/20 we distributed over 3000 food parcels and we expect this number will rise during this crisis. Please note we still need donations of food. Yours sincerely Jane Benyon CEF founder Jane's WalkOnce again CEF Founder Jane Benyon is doing a sponsored walk for CEF, this time a series of circular routes around Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds. Read all about it here. BBC Radio 4Jane Benyon and the work of CEF were featured on Radio 4's PM programme, looking at how CEF is responding to the lockdown. You can listen to it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p086klpr
Why do we need a Food Bank?
Despite our Welfare system in this country many thousands of people still go hungry through debt, sickness, sudden job loss, addiction, marriage breakdown, or simply delays in receiving benefit. A number of similar projects which have started up in cities all over the country have been amazed to discover this well hidden poverty right in their midst. In 2018 CEF fed 1759 adults and 906 kids, that's 2,665 people in total Radio Oxford InterviewHere is an interview with Jane Benyon, CEF founder, that appeared on Radio Oxford in summer 2012: 
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