September Top Needed Items

Pasta and sauce
Peanut butter
Soup
Cooking oil
Jam

Other Needed Items

Frozen Meat (including Halal Meat) Please drop off directly to Food Bank (33914 Essendene Ave)
Fresh Produce Please drop off directly to Food Bank (33914 Essendene Ave)
Rice
Canned meats
Cereal
Beans
Period products
Size 5 and 6 diaper
Sugar
Chickpeas
Diced tomatoes
Coffee beans
Dry red lentils
Atta (South Asian Wheat Flour)
Besan (chickpea flour)

Thank you for donating food!

We are so thankful for you and for thinking of those in need while you shop for your family! These participating stores generously offer space to collect food for the Food Bank. Feel free to shop for our most needed items and then drop the food in the Food Bank bin by the exit. Thanks so much for feeding our community! Click on the map for directions!

Archway Food Bank
Archway Community Services
No Frills
Superstore
Save-On-Foods
Otter Co-Op

Share your passion of helping your community by sharing your event with your friends and family! Did you know that your friends are more likely to participate because of the passion they see in you? Share that passion where ever you share your life – online blog, social media, life milestones. Together we are able to feed the hungry, and impact lives of those in need to a greater degree so that those who are facing poverty are able to take the needed steps towards flourishing.

There are many ways to share your passion by raising money, these include:

If you have a business, offer an incentive
Participating in Toys for Tots Christmas Breakfast
Crowd Funding
Host a party (birthday, Christmas, housewarming) and have guests bring a donation instead of gifts.
Set a goal to celebrate

How would you like to make a difference in Abbotsford?

Tell us about it!

*PS – We believe in engaging our friends and family in making a difference in our community as apposed to knocking on the doors of people we don’t know. Please refrain from door-to-door solicitation 🙂

Your dollar goes farther at the Food Bank!

Bulk buying means we can have double and sometimes triple the buying power.

We love partnering with schools, businesses, families, and groups to raise food and funds for the people in our community that need it most! Please let us know how we can support your efforts.

Want to get creative? Here are some ideas!

Host an event where Food is the payment
Host a party (birthday, Christmas, housewarming) and have guests bring food instead of gifts
Provide people in the community, organization or church with grocery bags to fill and return with
donated goods.
Give prizes for creativity or for greatest amount of food collected.
Do a one item food drive (i.e. pasta drive)
Update people on the progress of the food drive throughout your drive via Facebook, e-mail etc.

Tell us about it!

*PS – We believe in engaging our friends and family in making a difference in our community as apposed to knocking on the doors of people we don’t know.
Please refrain from door-to-door solicitation 🙂