Nominate SOFEA as your Charity of the Year

Nominating SOFEA as your Charity of the Year is a unique opportunity to unite your teams behind an inspiring cause and demonstrate your company’s commitment to making a difference.

Thinking ahead to your 2025 Christmas Appeal – nominate SOFEA!

Please consider nominating SOFEA for your organisation’s Christmas Appeal.

Regular volunteering

Do you have 3 hours to spare each week? You could support our operations in Didcot or Milton Keynes, in our warehouses or at our community larders. We also have opportunities to support our teams through administrative task, research, prospecting and marketing. Sign up via our FareShare portal to find out more.

Corporate volunteering

We accept group bookings of volunteers across both our sites. Click here for more information.

Skills based volunteering

Do you have skills that you think could benefit a department at SOFEA? We’re always looking for skilled volunteers that could add value to our operations and increase out impact. Click here to learn more.

Organise a fundraising event

We always keen to hear from anyone that would like to fundraise for SOFEA. Our supports have run marathon’s, gone on epic pilgrimages, walked and hikes incredible distances or even ‘air walked’. Whatever challenge you’ve decided to set yourself, please consider raising funds for SOFEA along the way.

Email hello@sofea.uk.com to find out how we can support you.

Leftover Currency

Did you know you can donate your leftover travel money to SOFEA? Do you have a drawer or jam jar, filled with foreign coins, left over travel money from previous holidays? Would you consider donating that forgotten currency to help fund a good cause? It’s easy to donate your leftover holiday cash; Simply fill out the charity exchange form and send it along with your currency to our Datchet office. We will exchange all currency, coins and notes, foreign and domestic, and donate the exchange value plus 5% extra to SOFEA.

Find out more about donating your leftover currency to SOFEA via this link.

Download a SOFEA Charity Exchange form here.

Easy Fundraising

Help us get 2025 off to a great start for SOFEA by signing up to support us for FREE on #easyfundraising.

You can raise donations whenever you shop online with over 8,000 retailers including John Lewis & Partners, eBay, Argos, M&S and more at no additional cost to yourself. Plus, once you’ve raised your first £5, easyfundraising will double it!

Sign up today, it will make a BIG difference to us this year.

Legacy Giving

If you are at a time in your life that you’re consider creating or updating your Will to include a gift to SOFEA, we strongly recommend that you speak to a solicitor to ensure that your wishes will be carried out as you intend.

If you would like to leave a gift to SOFEA, you will need the following details:

Registered charity name: SOFEA
Registered address: 1E Trident Business Park, Didcot, OX11 7HJ
Registered charity number: 1155783

If you have remembered SOFEA in your Will, we’d love to hear from you. Not only will this help us make plans for the future, but it also means we can thank you properly for your support. You can give as little or as much as you like, knowing that the gift you leave behind will be supporting generations to come. Anything you tell us will be confidential and not legally binding.

Make an introduction

Is there someone you think we should meet that would help us? Get in touch and let us know! Email: hello@sofea.uk.com

Surplus Food

Does your organisation have surplus food or gifts in kind that could be redistributed to our 10k beneficiaries throughout our network of Community Larders and Community Food Members? Please get in touch with our Food Sourcing Officer, Andy Evans, by emailing him at Andy.e@sofea.uk.com to find out how your organisation could directly impact on our beneficiaries.