A Christmas message from Sheila Johnston, Richmond Food Bank President: Your donations, gifts, and volunteer hours are essential to providing reliable year-round service as we receive no public funding. With your support, our volunteers give grocery assistance to 1350 to 1450 people in a week. During our distributions we also Read more…
The annual BC Thanksgiving Food Drive is just around the corner and our volunteers are busy preparing for this year’s food drive that will take place between September 14th-18th with collection day on Saturday the 19th. Get involved in this province wide initiative with your kind donations and help bring hope Read more…
A big thank you to the staff at John M.S. Lecky UBC Boathouse for offering the RFB team a boat to practice for the Steveston Dragon Boat Festival.
About 20 paddlers including RFB staff, volunteers, friends and family gathered at the UBC boathouse every Thursday evening for the last couple of months to practice for the annual Steveston Dragon Boat Festival that was held on August 22nd 2015 in Steveston.
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Thank you to Sinfully the Best Chocolates for their very generous donation of $2000! Sinfully the Best employee (C) presents a $2000 cheque to RFB office manager Judy Ying Sun (L) and RFB volunteer Don (R) Sinfully the Best held a raffle for a large chocolate bunny during Easter and Read more…
Thank you to the Richmond Cosom Floor Hockey Association (RCFHA) for their generous donation of $300 to help our neighbours in need. The RCFHA held a 50/50 draw during their season-ending playoffs on Sunday 1 March 2015 and donated their part of the 50/50. They also collected two boxes of Read more…
Thank you to the Richmond Auto Mall and the Dealerships of the Richmond Auto Mall for their generous donation of over $15 000 and non-perishable food items! The Richmond Auto Mall holds an annual Food Bank fundraiser with the dealerships and the general public. You can learn more about their Read more…
Thank you to the St Paul’s Catholic Church Knights of Columbus for their generous donation. Pictured here with RFB office manager Judy Ying Sun (centre) is Lorenzo Ranada, Grand Knight, (right) and John Ty of the Knights of Columbus St Paul Parish (left). We’re blessed to have the support Read more…
Thank you to the congregations of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Parish, Beth Tikvah Synagogue, St. Anne’s Anglican Parish, and Our Saviour Lutheran Parish for organizing the Multi-Faith Food Drive last month. Their hard work and the generosity of the community brought in over $2000 and 1200 lbs of food Read more…
Thank you to the Ismaili Muslim Community of Richmond for their generous donation of 100 boxes of food- over 3000 lbs of food! The Ismaili Muslim Community collected the food during their Ramadan Food Drive. This is the second year in a row that they have held a food drive Read more…
Thank you to the Richmond Chinatown Lions Club for their generous donation of $5000 to help our neighbours in need. The donation was presented to a contingent of RFB staff and volunteers at the Lions’ annual Appreciation & Installation Night on Saturday 14 June 2014. The Chinatown Lions are long-standing Read more…