Summer is such a wonderful time in Canada – great weather and longer days mean more fun outdoor activities, weekends away, BBQs and much more. However, for many Canadian Food Banks (and other charitable organizations), donations tend to drop off in summertime as compared to the winter months. To help Read more…
The Mylora Executive Golf Course will be hosting a Richmond Food Bank Week to support the many programs and services that we offer here at the Richmond Food Bank Society. The event will be held from Sunday May 5th 2019 and will run until Saturday, May 11th from 10am-4pm. Representatives Read more…
Thank you again to Richmond Auto Mall! The proceeds of their annual donation drive were $32, 000 and over 860 lbs of food! We can’t thank the Richmond Auto Mall enough. The Richmond Auto Mall has held an annual donation drive for over a decade! Since they’ve started, the Richmond Auto Read more…
Happy Holidays! Here is our Holiday Schedule for December 2018 / January 2019. Please note that our last grocery distribution of 2018 will be Saturday, December 22 from 10 am to 11:30 am at our Richmond Baptist Church Depot. There will be no grocery distribution from December 23 2018 to Read more…
The Richmond Food Bank is pleased to announce that we have joined Community Food Centres Canada’s Good Food Organizations program to showcase our commitment to offering impactful community food programs based in principles of health, empowerment, and respect. With over 175 other Good Food Organizations and 10 Community Food Centres Read more…
We are very excited for the upcoming BC Thanksgiving Food Drive, on Saturday September 15 2018. Started in 2009, the BC Thanksgiving Food Drive has collected more than 10 000 lbs of food each year in Richmond alone. All food collected in Richmond goes to help Richmond residents going through Read more…
Our new grocery distribution depot opened at the Steveston United Church located on 3720 Broadway Street is growing and reaching out to more and more neighbours in need from around the west Richmond area. It has been two months since we opened a grocery distribution depot at the church facility and there has already been a (more…)
Our 2018 Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday, June 20th 2018 at our main site located at #100-5800 Cedarbridge way. Our Auditor from Reid Hurst Nagy presented the audited financial statements and it was reassuring to know that we had a healthy financial year in 2017. Hajira Hussain presented Read more…
Thank you to the Ismaili and the Shia Muslim Community of Richmond for their generous donation of over 700 lbs of food! The Muslim community from the Ismaili Community Centre & Jamatkhana and Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre, ran a Ramadan Food Drive at their respective mosques and collected non-perishable food items Read more…
The Richmond Food Bank turned 35 this March- we officially opened our doors in March 1983 at St Alban Church! We were originally planned as a temporary source of support during an economic downturn. However, the need only grew. We served 20 families the first day with grocery hampers. Today, Read more…