Add our foodbank to your Christmas list

Greerton resident Pauline Fryer gave generously to Bay of Plenty Times staff Angela Freeman (left) and Nicola Dowdall during this year's first can drive. Photo / Andrew Warner

Bay of Plenty Times staff and foodbank volunteers will hit the streets this afternoon in the second of three can drives to collect donations for the 2014 Bay of Plenty Times Christmas Appeal for the Tauranga Community Foodbank.

About 20 volunteers wearing blue Bay of Plenty Times T-shirts or foodbank badges will knock on doors throughout Bellevue asking for donations of food or personal hygiene products.

The volunteers will knock on doors along Bellevue Rd, Millers Place, Warwick Place, Upland St, Brookfield Tce, Seymour Place and Windsor Rd between 5.30pm and 7.30pm.

This year's can drive in Greerton saw 424 items collected.

If you will not be home or do not wish to be disturbed but would like to donate, please leave the food in a bag on your doorstep.

The final can drive will be held in Tauranga South on Monday, December 8.

As of yesterday morning 5366 items, valued at $2 each, and more than $21,000 had been donated, bringing the total to more than $32,000.

Individuals, families, schools, businesses and community groups donated more than $206,000 worth of food and cash during the past three appeals. A total of $86,496.95 was raised last year, $67,008 was raised in 2012 and $53,169.57 in 2011.