Ferndown Community Support feat Ferndown Community Larder and bank

07/02/2026

It's a traffic light of soups and sauces on the cook up here today🚦!

We present:

🥦Broccoli and cheese soup
🥕Curried parsnip soup
🍛Kashmiri curry cooking sauce
🫜Beetroot soup
🥒Asparagus soup (no asparagus emoji, settled for a cucumber 🤭)

All freshly made today ready for our food bank clients to enjoy 😋

We love to fill our fridges and freezers with freshly made soups, sauces, ready meals, prepared veg, (and sometimes desserts too!), wherever possible, and we are so grateful to our supermarkets for their surplus, to you our supporters for your kind donations to help us purchase food, consumables and energy to enable us to provide, and to our volunteers for all their hard work too.

Making wholesome, nutritious food, saving waste and ensuring good minimally processed food reaches those most in need, either through poverty or ill health, is something we care passionately about, and we know it makes a difference to people's health, recovery and wellbeing.

02/02/2026

Our Valentines Quiz night is not far away!

Join us for our Valentines special fundraising and fun quiz night with quizmaster Debbie Stanley! The evening promises fun, mental stimulation and plenty of prizes! Come as a team or on your own and we'll arrange a team for you.

Thursday 12th February 2026, at St Anthony's Church, 8 Pinehurst Road, West Moors, 6.30pm for 7pm start

Just £4 per person, bring your own snacks and drinks, or purchase refreshments here on the night. And remember we'll have our raffle too!

Buy tickets on our website, phone 01202 936121, or email info@ferndowncommunitysupport.org.uk. If you purchase tickets online, we will email you to confirm team arrangements, please check your spam in case it pops in there!

28/01/2026

Please take great care during this bad weather, and please seek help if you need it. We are working with Dorset Council social services and other organisations to offer support to residents needing essentials but unable to safely get them. If you need support, please don't hesitate to get in touch. If you are able to offer help to local residents who might need it, we would very much welcome your contact, both at this time and if you have time on an ongoing basis. Please visit our website, pop in and see us at The Larder, or call us on 01202 936121. Also, we remain open as normal for food bank support currently, staffing permitting - 2-5pm Monday-Friday, 10.30-1pm Saturday

A big thank you to our partners, Dorset Council Social services, emergency services and highways and planning, to name but a few, are all working hard to support residents affected by the poor weather.

10/12/2025

We cant wait to be a part of this, and are so very grateful to all at Ringwood and District Round Table. Come and see Santa tomorrow everyone!

As we take a few days to recharge our batteries (quite literally), Father Christmas & the team at Ringwood & District Round Table would like to say a massive thank-you to our wonderful friends at Hunt Forest Group for again lending us “Rudolph” the tow vehicle for our time with Santa. Without their kind help we’d quite literally be going nowhere (As the actual reindeer are still at the North Pole getting ready for Christmas Eve)! 🦌

We can’t wait to see everyone is Verwood, Burley, Bransgore, Trickett’s Cross, Ferndown & Ringwood next week, when we’ll be spreading some more festive cheer & raising money for Helix Day Service, New Forest Young Carers Service, Ferndown Community Support feat Ferndown Community Larder and bank & Helping Older People New Forest while also collecting your kind FoodBank donations for Hope for Food! ❤️

If you aren’t going to be able to come to see Santa, but would still like to lend a hand, you can still donate online by visiting https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/santas-sleigh-2025 🎅

25/11/2025

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23/11/2025

The fun doesnt stop here! Were honored to be chosen as one of the organisations to be supported, and cant wait to see the community having fun. Thank you Ringwood & District Round Table

22/11/2025

From stollens to snowmen, teddies to tombola's, crafts to coffee, face painting to frankfurters, we had the most special time with you all today at our Christmas Fayre 🎄🥰. Thank you so much to everyone who came and spent time and money with us today, and we hope you all had a wonderfully festive time too! Even Santa Claus and 4 of his elves accepted our invitation to spend time with us and our lovely community of little people, all for free (well, he might have snuck a hot dog or 2 from Dave 🎅🤭).

We owe so many thank you's to this supportive community of individuals and businesses:

- our volunteers, who put in hours of baking, wrapping, crafting, sorting and serving, without whom we wouldnt have this event or FCS
- Santa and his elves - you were magical!
- Meyers Estates Ferndown for you kind sponsorship of the free craft activity room, which was hugely popular!
- Miss honey guinea pig rescue
- Our kind raffle prize donors:
Carpet Barn & The Bed Store
Francesco Hair Ferndown
Ferndown Forest Golf Club, Golf Shop & Toptracer Range
hair and beauty
-hair
Discovery Village Role Play Centre
McDonald's
The Pure Drop, Ferndown
Relax & Remedy
Villain
Nicks Farm
- PPCS Pest Control Ltd for their kind sponsorship and creativity with facepainting!
- and the Ferndown Day Centre team for kindly packing up all their equipment so that we can take over the space.
- our creative stallholders who brought lots of lovely things to buy
- our supporters and community, who came and ate, purchased, celebrated, experienced and supported us.

Thanks to all of you we raised a massive £1975.85, which will go towards Mission Santa Sacks - providing wrapped gifts and essentials to children and young people in East Dorset in difficulty this season. 🎅🥰

22/11/2025

Christmas has landed at FCS! Come and join us at our Christmas Fayre - today, 11-3pm!

20/11/2025

We're busy baking, making and craft prepping ready for all of you to come to our Christmas Fayre on Saturday! Bring the children, bring your friends, bring your family, there's lots to do

🎄Homemade cakes and savory snacks
🎄Facepainting and henna
🎄Storytime with Santa - including FCS's first book launch! (Free, donations welcome)
🎄Miss honey guinea pig rescue
🎄Craft stalls
🎄Huge raffle, tombola, teddy tombola, hook a duck, water or wine
🎄Bric a Brac
🎄Children's Christmas Crafting room (Free - kindly sponsored by Meyers Estates Ferndown)

And all in aid of Mission Santa Sacks, our annual mission to deliver Christmas gifts and essentials to young people in East Dorset in difficulty 🎅🥰

We cant wait to see you!

20/11/2025

We're busy baking, making and craft prepping ready for all of you to come to our Christmas Fayre on Saturday! Bring the children, bring your friends, bring your family, there's lots to do

🎄Homemade cakes and savory snacks
🎄Facepainting and henna
🎄Storytime with Santa - including FCS's first book launch! (Free, donations welcome)
🎄Miss honey guinea pig rescue
🎄Craft stalls
🎄Huge raffle, tombola, teddy tombola, hook a duck, water or wine
🎄Bric a Brac
🎄Children's Christmas Crafting room (Free - kindly sponsored by Meyers Estates Ferndown)

And all in aid of Mission Santa Sacks, our annual mission to deliver Christmas gifts and essentials to young people in East Dorset in difficulty 🎅🥰

We cant wait to see you!

05/11/2025

Are you joining us for our next community cinema evening? We're well and truly welcoming in the cosy season with a fantastical feel good film, and serving up steaming hot chocolate, sweets, and other treats too!

Do join us for a Wonkaful evening, raise vital funds for FCS, and support your local The Barrington Arts Centre community theatre space too

Tickets available on our website or on the night. This cinema session is kindly sponsored by Pest Control Ltd , so please join us in thanking them for enabling us to keep ticket fees widely affordable for all