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2023 HungerCount

Food Banks Canada have released the 2023 HungerCount, showing record breaking usage figures and a level of growth that food banks are struggling to keep up with.

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BC Food Costing Report

Earlier this year, the BCCDC released the Food Costing in BC 2022 report with the aim to encourage action towards addressing food insecurity

Upcoming Events

Dec

37th Annual CBC Food Bank Day

Kick off the holiday season by supporting food banks across BC and enjoying special programming all day!

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Dec

Santa Clause Parade & Christmas in the Park

Join in the festivities from 4pm to 8pm at Memorial Peace Park. Santa parade begins at 6pm

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Dec

Firefighters for Families

Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows firefighters will be at locations across the cities today collecting food and toy donations

Food Drive Protocol

In March 2020 food drives were cancelled due to the pandemic. Thankfully today we are once again able to host food drives but in order to do so must follow Health & Safety protocol.

We ask you to work with us to ensure your food drive happens in a safe manner and is delivered to the food bank in such a way that it can be handled efficiently.

Following are some simple steps you can take to make your food drive a success and help those in need.

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Call the Friends in Need to schedule your food drive and provide the following information. What are your dates? What is the organization hosting the food drive? Who is the contact person with their contact information? What is the location?

Arrange to pick up or have dropped off a donation bin for the collection of non-perishables. It will have our sign and "MOST WANTED LIST" attached to give your participants (donors) an idea of what we need. To be safe, when handling the donated food, wear a mask and gloves.
Take pictures of your participants and the bounty you collect. We like to shine a light on your efforts by posting on Facebook.

Assess the amount of food collected and arrange for delivery or pickup.

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When dropping off, you must schedule a date and time as we are still in a lockdown and protocol must be followed. Whoever is delivering the donations to the food bank, use the back-bay door of Unit #8, 22726 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge. Best access is off 119th across from the bowling alley.
Gloves and a mask must be worn by all when dropping off the donations. Our staff and volunteers will be there to assist with the unloading.
Food collected will be weighed and recorded.
If you have scheduled a time for pickup, please stage your donations in one location, protected from the weather, and our team will pick them up, take them back to the food bank where they will be weighed & recorded.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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