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Bluebird Storage - Manchester
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97 Brown Avenue
Manchester, NH 03103
Manchester, NH 03103
(603) 232-1868
Give Hunger the Bird
Donating is as simple as 1, 2, 3!
2. Drop It Off
3. We Deliver It
Shelf-stable food and unopened personal care items. The list below is what the pantries ask for most.
Bins are inside the office at every location during normal office hours. No appointment, and you don’t have to be a customer.
Our team weighs each store’s haul and runs it to Families in Transition or Gather, depending on where it came from.
Hunger here doesn’t look like hunger.
New Hampshire is one of the wealthiest states in the country, and the need is still climbing. It looks like a full-time job that doesn’t cover a rent increase. It looks like a kid whose school lunch was the reliable meal of the day, and it’s July. The steepest jumps in the latest Feeding America data landed in Hillsborough and Strafford counties — where most of our stores are — and they hit children hardest.
THE NEED NEXT DOOR
11.2%
of Granite Staters lack consistent access to enough food, up from 10.7% the year before
38,430
New Hampshire children are food insecure - a 6% increase in a single year
16.3%
Child food insecurity in Hillsborough County, up from 14.3%; Strafford County rose to 16.6%
13%
more non-perishable food and personal items moved through the NH Food Bank to its partner pantries year over year
Sources: Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap 2026 (2024 data), as reported by the New Hampshire Food Bank. Rockingham County has the state’s lowest rate at 8.8% — the need in southern New Hampshire is real, and it is uneven town to town.
WHERE YOUR DONATIONS GO?
Two local pantries. No middle step.
We split the drive by geography so non-perishable food and personal items lands close to where it was given. Collections from our Manchester-area stores go to Families in Transition; collections from our Seacoast stores go to Gather.
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MANCHESTER · HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
Families in Transition
Working to prevent and break the cycle of homelessness.
A statewide nonprofit headquartered in Manchester, with additional locations in Concord, Dover and Wolfeboro. Non-perishable food and personal items is one piece of a larger safety net that also includes emergency shelter, housing programs, substance use treatment and case management.
PORTSMOUTH · THE SEACOAST
Gather
Feeding the Seacoast since 1816.
Founded by a group of women determined to feed the families of Seacoast fishermen, Gather is one of the oldest social service agencies in the country — and it now runs some of the most inventive non-perishable food and personal items access programs in the region.
This Year's Goal
Two seasons ago this drive collected 1,600 pounds of non-perishable food and personal items.
Last year we went after 2,000.
This year we’re aiming for 2,200 — and it adds up one bag at a time.
MOST NEEDED FOOD
- Peanut butter
- Canned tuna & chicken
- Soups & stews
- Pasta & sauce
- Rice & dried beans
- Cereal & oatmeal
- Shelf-stable milk
- Canned fruit & vegetables
- Cooking oil
Please skip anything expired, opened, homemade or packaged in glass — pantries have to throw these out, which costs them time they don’t have.
PERSONAL CARE ITEMS COUNT TOO
- Toothpaste & toothbrushes
- Soap & shampoo
- Deodorant
- Toilet paper
- Laundry detergent
- Diapers & wipes
- Feminine hygiene products
Please skip anything expired, opened, homemade or packaged in glass — pantries have to throw these out, which costs them time they don’t have.
Drop a bag at any of our 10 locations:
Bins are inside the office during normal business hours. You don’t need to be a customer.
Bluebird Storage - Bedford
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435 South River Road
Bedford, NH 03110
Bedford, NH 03110
(603) 232-6333
Bluebird Storage - Hooksett
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10 Bursar Road
Hooksett, NH 03106
Hooksett, NH 03106
(603) 210-5661
Bluebird Storage - Hudson
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200 Central Street
Hudson, NH 03051
Hudson, NH 03051
(603) 589-9732
Bluebird Storage - Londonderry
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76 Perkins Road
Londonderry, NH 03053
Londonderry, NH 03053
(603) 404-6977
Bluebird Storage - Hampstead
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664 Rt 111
Hampstead, NH 03841
Hampstead, NH 03841
(603) 489-2855
Bluebird Storage - Epping
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2 Greenlaw Drive
Epping, NH 03042
Epping, NH 03042
(603) 200-0743
Bluebird Storage - Greenland
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125 Ocean Road
Greenland, NH 03840
Greenland, NH 03840
(603) 380-9455
Bluebird Storage - Dover
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64 Littleworth Road
Dover, NH 03820
Dover, NH 03820
(603) 697-1079
Bluebird Storage - Rochester
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201 Highland Street
Rochester, NH 03868
Rochester, NH 03868
(603) 330-2580
Donate today! Every item helps a family in need.
How to help:
Give dollars instead
Both pantries buy in bulk and rescue fresh food, so a dollar usually goes further than a can. At Gather, ninety cents of every dollar goes straight to local hunger relief.
Give a shift
Families in Transition needs volunteers to sort donations, stock shelves and check visitors out. Gather needs hands to turn food into to-go meals and to staff its Mobile Markets.
Both welcome corporate groups.