Happy holidays! Here is our holiday schedule for late December 2024 to early January 2025. Please note that there will be NO grocery distribution from Monday, December 23rd, 2024 to Saturday, December 28th, 2024. During this week, our office will be open from Monday-Friday 9am to 3pm. Our first grocery Read more…
Happy holidays! Here is our holiday schedule for late December 2023 to early January 2024. Click here for a PDF version of the schedule. Please note that there will be NO grocery distribution from Monday, December 25th, 2023 to Monday, January 1st, 2024. During this week, our office will be Read more…
We will be introducing a Seniors Only (55+) Distribution on Thursday mornings from 11am-2pm. Roughly 24% of the people we serve are seniors and we recognize how difficult it can be for some of the older clients in our community to stand for long periods of time. We hope that this Read more…
Happy Holidays! Here is our Holiday Schedule for December 2022 and early January 2023. Please note that we will have an extended grocery distribution on Thursday December 22nd. There will be a morning distribution from 11am-2pm and an evening distribution from 5pm-7:30pm at our main 5800 Cedarbridge Way location. This Read more…
Happy Holidays! Here is our Holiday Schedule for December 2021 and early January 2022. Please note that our last grocery distribution of 2021 will be Thursday evening, December 23rd from 6pm-7:30pm at our main 5800 Cedarbridge Way location. There will be no grocery distribution on Saturday, December 25th 2021, or Read more…
“The COVID-19 vaccine is saving lives. Vaccines do more than protect the people getting vaccinated, they also protect everyone around them. The more people in a community who are immunized and protected from COVID-19, the harder it is for COVID-19 to spread.” https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/plan As COVID-19 transmission rates decrease and B.C. prepares to Read more…
Community Food Resources We often share information about free drop-in meals and other key services available in Richmond, BC. Many of these have been impacted by Covid-19, but there is an up-to-date map of food resources thanks to Vancouver Coastal Health: http://www.vch.ca/public-health/nutrition/food-asset-map Financial Assistance If you have received the CERB Read more…
Happy Holidays! Here is our Holiday Schedule for December 2020 and early January 2021. Please note that our last grocery distribution of 2020 will be Thursday, December 24 from 10 am to 1 pm at our main 5800 Cedarbridge Way location. There will be no grocery distribution on Friday, December Read more…
This Richmond Community Food Access Report – “Food Brings Community” – looks at access to food among vulnerable people in Richmond, BC in the summer of 2020. Included is a summary of key informant interviews with staff and volunteers from church communities that have been providing community food programs for Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2020 – Richmond BC: In order to better serve our clients living in the East Richmond area, the Richmond Food Bank Society will re-open the Daniels Road Depot at Peace Mennonite Church (11571 Daniels Road), effective Tuesday June 9, 2020 – from 3:30pm – 5pm. Read more…