Could You Donate Harvest Goods For The Homeless?

Each year CHESS Homeless collect food items during the Harvest season. These are used for meals for our service users in our main sites and move-on properties if needed, as well as to rough sleepers in the 8 Essex districts that we cover with our Outreach Team. On average, we need to feed around 88 service users and more each day.

We understand that these are difficult times for everyone, and during the past 2 years we have seen a steady decline in donations for Harvest so if you are able to support us in this way we would be very grateful.

Any of the items below would be most welcome and help us to keep a supply of food available for current service users and rough sleepers alike. You can download the following shopping list HARVEST donations 2025 (3)

WE DON’T NEED Baked Beans or Pasta – thankyou!

Harvest Shopping List


Food Items
  • Coffee
  • Biscuits
  • Sugar
  • Squash
  • Juice & Other Drinks
  • Small Bottles of Water
  • UHT semi-skimmed Milk
  • Pot Noodles
  • Biscuits
  • Crisps
  • Breakfast & Snack Bars
  • Canned Meats (Hotdogs, Meatballs etc)
  • Tinned Sweetcorn/Peas
  • Sauce Jars (Curry/Pasta etc)
Hygiene / Cleaning Items
  • Washing-up liquid
  • Bin Bags
  • Shampoo
  • Shower Gel
  • Anti-bac wipes
  • Green food recycling bags
  • Tissues
  • Deodorant