News & Events

Richmond Food Bank Society – 2022 Year in Review We are pleased to share the impact of your collective efforts that allowed us to serve our neighbours through yet another busy year. The increased need for emergency food assistance that we witnessed since the Covid-19 pandemic hit continued to rise. In combination with increasing food…

We are looking to add new members to the Richmond Food Bank Society’s Board of Directors. We care greatly about adding Board members that will help in the Society’s mission to be a caring organization that provides food assistance, advocacy and related support for community members in need.  Our aim is to have diversity on…

2023 marks the Richmond Food Bank’s 40th anniversary. On March 6th, 1983, the Richmond Food Bank opened its doors to its first clients. 20 families were served that day at Howard de Beck School. Since then, we’ve moved around Richmond, including The Public Works Yard on Lynas Lane and two locations in Steveston. In 2007,…

We will be introducing a Seniors Only (55+) Distribution on Thursday mornings from 11am-2pm. Roughly 24% of the people we serve are seniors and we recognize how difficult it can be for some of the older clients in our community to stand for long periods of time. We hope that this will help make accessing our…

Happy Holidays! Here is our Holiday Schedule for December 2022 and early January 2023. Please note that we will have an extended grocery distribution on Thursday December 22nd. There will be a morning distribution from 11am-2pm  and an evening distribution from 5pm-7:30pm at our main 5800 Cedarbridge Way location. This one time extended distribution is…