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…
Happy Easter! We are closed on Friday 30 March all day for Good Friday. On Saturday 31 March, our Cedarbridge Way office (10 am to 2 pm) and Blundell Grocery Depot (10 am to 11:30 am) will be open as usual. Our Cedarbridge Way office will be open on Monday Read more…
Both our offices and our Boyd Grocery Depot will be closed on Monday 12 February 2018 for BC Family Day. Our offices will reopen on Tuesday 13 February at 9 am. The next grocery depot will be our Daniels Depot on Tuesday 13 February from 3:30 to 5 pm. The Read more…
Does your business have excess or close-dated perishable food items? Want to make sure that they get used instead of being discarded or going into the compost? The Richmond Food Bank will gratefully accept your items! We accept perishable food items from wholesale and retail businesses, including fresh fruits and Read more…
We’re happy to announce our 2017 December grocery distribution schedule!Our last grocery distribution of 2017 will be Thursday 21 December 6 pm to 7 pm at our Cedarbridge Way location. There will be no grocery distribution from 22 December 2017 to 1 January 2018. The first grocery distribution in 2018 Read more…
Because of a grant from Food Banks BC, we have a new walk-in cooler and freezer! Our new walk-in cooler and freezer greatly expands our capacity to store perishable food, allowing us to accept more fresh fruits & vegetables, dairy items, and even meat! Expanding the donations we can accept Read more…
On Wednesday 21 June 2017, we held our Annual General Meeting. AGMs are required under the BC Societies Act to elect the board of directors for the upcoming year. At our AGM, we re-elected our 11 person board of directors. You can learn about them on our About Us page. Read more…
We held our annual general meeting on Wednesday 15 June 2016 in the Richmond Food Bank. As a NPO in BC and a registered charity in Canada, we are required to hold a meeting of the Richmond Food Bank Society’s members every year. This important meeting addresses several pieces of Read more…
Please note that the final Saturday grocery distribution will be on October 24th, 2026. After this date, the grocery distribution schedule will be as follows:
Main Location (#100-5800 Cedarbridge Way)
Offsite Depots