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Making Holiday Hunger a Thing of the Past
Easter Food Hampers incoming...Click here for more details....
Click here to read our January 2026 newsletter and see what we've been up to this Christmas!...
After a successful application to the National Lottery, we were excited to receive a generous grant from the Community Fund. This will help us to continue to be able to provide food hampers for local ...
Christmas Hamper Distribution Day 2025. Click here for more information ......
Can you believe it? Christmas Hamper collection day is almost upon us ......
Help Raise Funds for DFS by Supporting the Co-op. Click here for details ......
Read our September Newsletter for an update on how our Summer Hamper programme went. Click here for details....
Week One was well attended by lots of local families who were able to fill their bags with fresh meat, ham, cheese, lots of fruit, vegetables, cereal and a selection of food staples. Click here for mo...
Not much longer until our school summer holiday 2025 food hamper distribution goes LIVE!...
DFS Trustees Karen and John attended the annual cheque presentation evening hosted by Fundraising Friends 222. Click here for more details ......
Cheriton Care Home chooses Dorchester Family Support as its charity partner for 2025! Click here for more details....
Read our latest Newsletter for an update on the Christmas food distribution. Click here for more details....
Huge thanks to all our wonderful donors, volunteers and suppliers for making all this possible! A hugely successful day with well over 200 local families coming through the doors to collect Christmas ...
UPDATE 10/12/24: You've only gone and done it! Thank you so much. We've now had sufficient bags donated to fill with Christmas food and treats. Local families in need will collect them this Saturday!...
Read our latest Newsletter for an update on the summer food distribution and other things that have been happening so far this year. Click here for more details....
It's week 3 of 5 of our summer hamper programme and we've had another very successful and busy morning at Thomas Hardye School. Click here for more on this ......
Dorchester Family Support are so grateful to the Durnovarian Dames who are fundraising for us throughout the year. This is one of their cake sales held at the United Church....
We were delighted to welcome the Mayor of Dorchester to our first morning of food deliveries today. He has kindly chosen DFS as his charity to support this year....
Not long now! Our first summer holiday hamper distribution day is Thursday 25th July....
Free CAP Money Course Saturday 15th June 9.30 - 12.30pm and Tuesday 18th June 2.00 - 5.00pm...
Messy Church is back! FREE family fun, games, craft and food. Come and have some fun and something to eat....
We are one of 2 charities that the Dorchester and Crossways Co-op stores are supporting this year. So far Co-op have donated £1,400 to DFS! Look out for us at the Dorchester store soon 🙂...
With 2024 well and truly underway, we would like to share with our supporters our thoughts about Christmas 2023 and our plans for Summer 2024. Despite various difficulties that we hadn’t anticipat...
Dorchester Family Support is part of the @Coopuk Local Community Fund, to find out more about our project and to choose us as your cause, click here https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/77153...
Following the unwavering generosity and support of our donors, Dorchester Family Support were able to purchase enough food to fill over 310 Christmas hampers for collection by local families in need t...
Thank you to The Works in Dorchester and all their customers! Despite the hard times affecting so many people, several shops in the town supplied us with gifts, books and toys to pass onto our famili...
We are so grateful to Morrisons who have come to the rescue at short notice to ensure that local families in need are able to receive their Christmas Hampers this year....
With your amazing help and generosity and with just two days to go before our hamper distribution day, we have reached our target of 600 large sturdy Christmas themed bags. Thank you all so much....
Huge thanks to our wonderful community who have given so generously, and enabled us to provide much needed food to families within our community needing some extra support during the school holidays. ...
A free course to help you manage your money better with a £20 Co-op voucher reward for attendees who live in DT1/DT2 postcodes or work for the NHS. Choose one of these dates/times: Tuesday afternoo...
Summer Hampers here we come! With less than a week to go until our first summer hamper distribution day of 2023, there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make sure we have the large quantit...
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Dorchester Family Support have been successful in securing a grant from Dorset Council's Household Support Fund. This money will help to buy much needed food parcels for families in need during the su...
£29 will buy a food hamper for a family in need this summer. Click here to watch what Sally has to say....
Dorchester Family Support are thrilled and hugely grateful to have been awarded a £1000 grant from the Dorchester Market Car Boot Fund. John Weir, a Trustee and Treasurer of Dorchester Family Support...
With more families than ever needing our support, we estimate having to provide 300 hampers each week of the summer holidays meaning we need to raise £43,500. Can you help local families in need by d...
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Find information on Cost of Living Support, local Warm Welcome spaces, tasty recipes plus other useful tips to help you save money. We will be adding and updating information on these topics throughou...
Join members of Dorchester Baptist Church to celebrate the New Year with a Barn Dance on Saturday 28th January 2023 from 7.00-10.00pm at the Dorford Centre. Minimum donation £10.00 per person (£5.00...
CAP: A free course to help you manage your money better and to budget, save and spend well. There is a £20 Co-op voucher incentive scheme for all participants who live in the DT1 and DT2 postcode are...
Thanks to the continuing generosity and support of our donors, Dorchester Family Support were able to buy enough food to supply 250 local families with almost 300 Christmas hampers this year!...
Can you help us collect sturdy bags for our Christmas Hamper distribution?...
Dorchester Family Support need to raise funds to buy food for this year's Christmas Hampers. Make an online donation today to help us provide 250 Hampers to local families who could really benefit fro...
189 local families registered to receive a weekly food parcel during the summer holidays....
Come and learn how to manage your money better in these challenging times. We can all do with a fresh look at our finances from time to time, and benefit from tips on how best to make what we have str...
Thanks to the continuing generosity of our Dorchester Family Support donors and supporters we have yet again been able to help a large number of local families during the school summer holidays by pr...
Little Waitrose in Poundbury have kindly donated £200 to Dorchester Family Support. Our treasurer John Weir went to collect the £200 cheque from staff at Waitrose. With the summer holiday distribut...
There's something for everyone. Have a look and share pictures of your creations with us, either here on the website or on our social media accounts!...
Any initiative that helps to tackle holiday hunger is always welcomed by Dorchester Family Support....
Families have been 'blown away' by a big-hearted gift which will ensure they can tuck into goodies and have presents this Christmas. It comes after 200 hampers were distributed to families whose child...
DORSET Council says it is working with local voluntary organisations to ensure no children go hungry during the half-term break. It is also planning to make arrangements for the Christmas and New Year...
