Pupils and staff at Exwick Heights Primary School, part of our Trust are delighted to be the very first school to have taken up the challenge of providing Exeter Foodbank with some artwork for their new home in Cowick Street. 

Members of the Art Club at the school put brushes to paper and created some colourful paintings for the foodbank to put on display. The foodbank’s new venue is brilliant but with white walls and grey floors throughout, it did need some cheering up!

Exwick Heights has a thriving Art Club and places a real focus on creative, as well as academic, education. In previous years pupils from the club have entered the Young Artist's Summer Competition run by the Royal Academy of Arts.

Exeter Foodbank was started in 2008 to help local people, many of whom had been affected by the financial crisis and the subsequent downturn in the economy. It is funded by local churches and community groups, working together to stop hunger in the local area.  

Since its opening the foodbank has grown to provide three client sessions a week at the Foodbank Centre and they have over a hundred volunteers involved in running every aspect of the foodbank.

Mrs Gemma Wills, Headteacher at Exwick Heights Primary School said:

“I am so proud of all the children that created a painting to be displayed at the new foodbank premises. It’s so touching to be told that the volunteers and clients at the food bank have loved seeing their work on display.”  

Moira Marder, CEO of the Ted Wragg Trust said:

“It’s lovely to hear that pupils at Exwick Heights have demonstrated such kindness in brightening up the new foodbank building. The work that Exeter Foodbank does is so important and it’s great to see Exwick Heights working with them to strengthen the community.”