Last week, Port Nelson United held a very special 2 hour food drive in honour of Lisa Stewart who past away in august of last

Most businesses, stores and restaurants have received a recent notification about this week’s Halton inspection Blitz, we want you to know that we are ready

Welcome to February! For January we mentioned that we saw an increase in need for support being the highest we’ve ever seen. This doesn’t excite

Earlier this week, Robin was taking part in the weekly Mayor’s Burlington covid task force and together they make sure everyone is as safe as

We’ve had a lot of interaction with Feed Ontario through Board meetings, Advocacy Committee and communications that will be going to the Provincial government. But

We would like to thank three amazing women – Andrea Florian, Laura Gill and Barb Cote (the Florian Realty Team) for their over-the-top efforts throughout

We just want to remind everyone that we will be continuing our contactless delivery service through the snowy day today. Our drivers will drive slow

Robin Bailey, Executive Director for the Burlington Food Bank has been involved in the food bank & security industry for 12 or 13 years now,

As Robin is usually the first one into the Burlington Food Bank each morning he begins his day by wiping down all surfaces with disinfectant

We recognize that the price of groceries in Burlington has increased substantially recently and we want to help ANYONE that needs help or assistance with

We would like to thank Karina Gould’s office for helping us out with the Canada Summer Jobs program which really helped during the summer with

Looks to be another busy week for us as people are needing our assistance more and more, however we are lucky to have such great

Yesterday we had our largest number of families served in a day – 52 households including 38 in the morning and 14 in the evening

We want everyone to know that we are still open to support anyone that needs food during our regular hours – Monday – Friday: 9:00

This week we received a donation that also included a note from the donor. “A neighbour put up one of the lit-up polar bears on

Thanking our STUDENTS today, welcoming back Samantha Zulian – returning back to help us out. She was our amazing summer student that we were able

We served 180 families last week. We’re glad that people are reaching out now and we are very proud of our volunteers for taking these

We would like to thank people in Burlington that continue to support our efforts and do incredible things here in support of our community. We

We’re thrilled that people are contacting us to arrange for support now as we assembled 36 deliveries on Monday and 33 today – this is

Happy New Year everyone! Thank you for going above and beyond in 2020 to help out. We were able to provide for every family that

Local leaders share their thoughts for the year ahead Roland Cilliers – Burlington Post, Monday, January 4, 2021 Robin Bailey — Burlington Food Bank The

We’d like to thank everyone in Burlington that participated in a food drive or donated to a Burlington charity during 2020. When the City declared

Robin is with Annette, Office Manager at Back On Track Chiropractic and Wellness. For more than twenty-five years, Back on Track has been helping residents

Robin met with Hugh Loomans (President, CEO), Brad Culp (Exec VP and COO) and Jim Seely (GM Transportation) of Sylvite whose head office is here

Robin is with Christine, Emma and Dave Schurman the Chief Operating Officer from First Ontario Credit Union. First Ontario is committed to supporting the communities they

Robin is with Trevor Poczynek today who is part of the ONRestaurants+ Burlington public Facebook group (with 16.9K members). This group (started in March 2020)

Robin is with Audrey from Faith Church who are running a covid-friendly, contactless drive-thru food drive this Saturday Dec 19 from 10 am to noon.

Last Thursday was our busiest day ever – a new record for us at 49 deliveries in the one day. We are thankful that more

Some of you may have noticed our signage at a few bus shelters in town. Pattison Outdoor Advertising donated ad space in Burlington and of

Robin is with Joel Dryburgh from the Sheldon Creek Community group and ALOFT Group Residential and Commercial Painting. The Sheldon Creek community made ginger bread houses

We are so thankful for all of our volunteers at The Burlington Food Bank; InnoFoods a Canadian company based in Coquitlam BC is helping us

To all the generous people in Burlington that have donated food lately… This is the kind of impact you’re having on people in Burlington. (an

Last week we mentioned that the food donations are going out as fast as we get them. Donations are happening through local food drives and

Want to support a local small business and at the same time help the Burlington Food Bank?  Please consider purchasing a vegetable basket from Ryan’s

A couple years ago the Frosty’s Village team (Melissa & Christina (shown here) along with Annie and Leah and Robert) started putting up the same

Robin is with Jen Buchalter, Director of Communications for The Gift of Giving Back. This year they have partnered with the Burlington Centre to run

Going now into December, we wanted to update everyone with some of our stats. We’re here at Eat The Frog Fitness today as they are

Discover ways to support those in need this holiday season. Guests: Robin Bailey, Executive Director, Burlington Food Bank and Jean Longfield, Chair, The Gift of

Thank you to everyone that made donations yesterday on Giving Tuesday! Taylor Moving dropped by and gave us Cheese, Yogurt and Margarine – just great

You can pre-order a Christmas tree (provided by Longos Markets) on Nickelbrook’s website! A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the @burlfoodbank, plus you’ll receive

Feed Ontario released its 2020 Hunger Report today, revealing that even prior to COVID-19 food bank use was on the rise. The pandemic has had

We would like to thank Loblaws for their #LoblawHolidayFoodDrive which began November 26 and runs until December 24, 2020. The Burlington Food Bank is grateful

On top of being busy here at the Burlington Food Bank we are also involved in a variety of other initiatives. Through Feed Ontario, we

Welcome to Karen Roche – the new Fire Chief in Burlington – we are excited to hear about the new appointment and glad to hear

Just looking at our recent stats, and comparing this year’s food donations to last couple years. We felt that since we have missed out on

We’re not proud of this but we hit a new single-day record last week serving 37 families in just one day. We’re happy to be

Thought we’d share a story of what just happened to one of our volunteers. At No Frills picking up some school lunch items and some

We want to thank a donor, Susanne that dropped by yesterday with quite a number of reusable bags that she has been making, she has

The two largest food banks in Toronto released their latest “Who’s Hungry” Report for 2020 yesterday, the Daily Bread Food Bank and North York Harvest. Both are

Welcome to the RED zone Burlington! We implore everyone to follow the guidelines that have been put forth by our health officials. Its important that