This Christmas local organisations and churches are working together to provide and distribute Christmas hampers to people in need.
Many people on low incomes are struggling with the rising cost of living and Christmas can be a particularly difficult time with extra expense but no extra money.
A partnership of local organisations asks local businesses, schools, churches and others to collect items from a list of food needed to make up Christmas Food Hampers. In 2025 these hampers were delivered to approximately 260 families and individuals in Burgess Hill and surrounding villages.
The groups organising the initiative includes Burgess Hill District Lions Club, The King's Church, Burgess Hill Community Food Bank, Burgess Hill Town Council, Burgess Hill and District Rotary and Burgess Hill Youth.
How you can help - deliveries
Once all of the donations we receive are sorted and repackaged, they need to be delivered and we can't do any of this without your help!
If you're free to help deliver the hampers between 11am-2pm on Friday 11 December and/or 12 noon - 3pm on Sunday 13 December, you can sign up for a delivery slot now:
How you can help - donations
Set up a collection point in your place of work, and encourage colleagues to collect items listed. Deliver your donations to The King's Centre by the morning of Wednesday 09 December.
Buy some of the items listed, and drop them into either The King's Church, Town Council Help Point, The Triangle Leisure Centre, or Specsavers Burgess Hill.
List of food
Sugar
Tea bags/Instant coffee
Tinned vegetables – carrots/peas/sweetcorn
Pasta Sauces
Tinned Meat/meatballs
Tinned Fruit
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned custard
Angel delight
Jelly packet
Rice pudding (tinned)
Biscuits
Jam
UHT Milk
Cereal
Chocolate selection box
Tinned fish
Baked beans
Tinned soup
Pasta
Mince pies
Please DO NOT add other items, we want them all to be similar. We are also unable to accept fresh food or items that are passed their best before/use by date. We kindly ask that you please buy products of a nice quality and do not buy value items.