Foodbank campaigners demanded Clinton Cards donate to the poor yesterday after revelations that the disgraced company’s HQ is only a stone’s throw away from an impoverished council estate where the use of foodbanks has soared.

The stationery shop hit the news this Monday after being forced to pull a Christmas card off the shelves for outrageously listing “10 reasons why Santa must live on a council estate”, which began with “he has a serial record for breaking and entering.”

But soon after Clintons issued an apology and promised an inquiry over the controversial card that provoked outrage across the internet, it was found to be selling a similarly offensive card on its website.

The card, which shows a woman out hunting, reads: “It wasn’t quite the same. Chavs were a lot slower than foxes, but at least no-one complained!”

Streets Kitchen spokesperson Jon Glackin said: “To find out that Clintons of all companies is based just next to Loughton Estate where foodbank use has risen by 50 per cent last year really takes their sneering classist Christmas cards to a whole new level of prejudice and cruelty.”

The group, which runs a website with information on foodbanks and winter shelters for those in need, said the number of people contacting it has been growing daily.

“Perhaps Clintons should enter the period of goodwill properly and not only apologise, but also contribute financially to help those not only increasingly marginalised now, but apparent ‘fair game’ for ridicule for profit,” added Mr Glackin.

Customers and the general public have been taking to social media to express their frustration over the company’s promotion of rude stereotypes and prejudice.

Twitter user Aileen Evans messaged Clintons saying that it “should make generous donations to Foodbank & Shelter, least they can do is to help many homeless & hungry.”

Another user under the alias @AGlesca wrote: “They should withdraw the card, apologise and give a generous donation to a foodbank.”

Clintons was put under administration in 2012 and bought by US stationery American firm Greetings.

Under new management — and with several temp positions paid as little as £4.96 an hour — the company took a whopping £5.6 million in profit last year alone.