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Thank you to Food Banks Canada and the Walmart Foundation for their generous donation of a new van! Our new van, a Dodge Ran 2500, allows us to pickup more donations and reduce strain on our volunteers thanks to its high box.  It’s a sister van to the Dodge Ram 3500 that Peterson generously donated…

We are thrilled to show off our new van that we were able to purchase thanks to a very generous donation by Peterson! The van, a Dodge Ram 3500, has enormous carrying capacity that can carry three pallets of items at once- saving us precious fuel and reducing the number of trips we need to…

We are very grateful to Peterson for their generous donation of $10 000! This donation was a result of matching funds from the Peterson Donation Drive we announced in November 2017.  More than $11 000 was donated to the Richmond Food Bank in the Peterson Donation Drive, plus 200 lbs of nonperishable food was collected.…

Does your business have excess or close-dated perishable food items?  Want to make sure that they get used instead of being discarded or going into the compost? The Richmond Food Bank will gratefully accept your items! An example of what we received from Shoppers Drug Mart at Richmond Centre We accept perishable food items from…

Loblaw Canada is holding a national food drive throughout the month of December! From 8 December to 24 December, Loblaw stores (including Loblaw’s City Market and Superstore) in Richmond will be accepting nonperishable donations to the Richmond Food Bank. They’re hoping to collect more than 1.3 million lbs of food across Canada for local food…