Burlington Food Bank News

What's Going On at the Burlington Food Bank

Robin Bailey

Update – July 30

Our Food Bank volunteers have been busy and just in the last week we have found that a number of our student volunteers have managed

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 29

Our Food Bank driver has been busy lately going out to pick up the purchases that we have been making recently. Today he was out

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 28

We just received our annual survey request from Feed Ontario asking us for our self reporting of policies and procedures. Feed Ontario is truly supportive

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 27

Right now we are in the middle of our slowest season for the food bank. The deliveries keep going although right now we’ve seen a

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Robin meets with Lisa Lunski

Update – July 24

Today Robin meets with Lisa Lunski, coordinator of the Wellington Square Meal Bag Program. Their Community Friday night social and dinner turned into a three-day

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 23

Today we received a bountiful harvest from our own Garden plots – Thank you Lisa Dubik! BurlingtonTogether’s Grow a Row initiative plans to bring in

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 22

We would like to thank Freshco on Brant Street for stepping up to help us out during the pandemic – every time we’ve called, they’ve

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 21

One of the things that we do at the Food Bank and certainly throughout the covid crisis is to stick to our main mission –

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 20

One of the things that people don’t know about food banks is that we are in the business of trying to put ourselves out of

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 17

Just wanted to let everyone know that we updated our Top 10 most needed items recently as there are a few food drives starting up.

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 16

We would like to thank our Seniors in Burlington who decided to pass along their government cheques of $300 to us here at the Burlington

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 14

As the Pandemic continues we all feel the stress and its effects, at the Burlington Food Bank we try to focus on the positive where

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 13

Since we operate out of a confined space at the Burlington Food Bank we make sure that all of our volunteers wear masks when physical

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Robin Bailey

Update – July 10

Most Food Banks in the past were distributing mainly non-perishable food so we were basically distributing the types of food items you would see in

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