News & Events

National Volunteer Week (April 24-30) was a time to celebrate all our amazing volunteers who dedicate countless hours of their precious time to serve our neighbours in need.  Our volunteer team consists of over 250 active volunteers that help us out at our main site as well as at our two off-site depots. Volunteers young…

Richmond Food Bank Society – Your Impact in 2021 We are pleased to share the impact of your collective efforts that allowed us to serve our neighbours through yet another challenging year. The increased need for emergency food assistance that we witnessed since the pandemic hit, continued to rise and resulted in a 19% increase…

Happy Holidays! Here is our Holiday Schedule for December 2021 and early January 2022. Please note that our last grocery distribution of 2021 will be Thursday evening, December 23rd from 6pm-7:30pm at our main 5800 Cedarbridge Way location. There will be no grocery distribution on Saturday, December 25th 2021, or on Saturday, January 1st 2022…

From December 1st until December 31st 2021, Peterson is matching donations up to $10,000! This marks the sixth consecutive year that Peterson has generously agreed to match donations during the holiday season to the Richmond Food Bank Society. We are very grateful for this amazing donation matching initiative that doubles the impact of donations for…

Have you ever been confused by best before dates and expiry dates? If so, it’s no wonder – there are many different codes and symbols used in different parts of the world, and their meaning is not always clear. We hope that this post will answer your questions, and help avoid food waste too. Here…