Food Drives

Huge shout out to this awesomely generous community for their support in providing food to those in need. You rock!

We usally hold several food drives per year, and benefit from many others.

Our major event is in December, when we have run “Fill The Trailer” aka “Stuff the Trailer” for several years. With the help of local radio and businesses, a large portion of our income comes from this. Event schedules cover entertainment, refreshments and friendly competition to increase donations.

Many community businesses, organisations, and schools run food drives for donation to the Foodbank.

Community Events such as Logger Sports have traditionally asked for food donations* in place of the cover charge.

The Brown Bag food drive* is run in fall with local church organisation, Church of the Latter Day Saints. Brown paper bags are dropped off by volunteers at local households with some info on the campaign, and after a week or so, volunteers pick up the filled bags. Proceeds are distributed evenly between 3 organisations: the Church, the Salvation Army, and us. Volunteers are crucial to the success of this food drive, and are provided by all 3 of the benefitting groups.

Many local stores have collection bins for customer donations on an ongoing basis.

*Please check expiry dates before donating.

Previous events:

Fill the Trailer Dec 2017

Thank You to All Who Had a Food Drive this Season (2016)

  • School District 47
  • City of Powell River Food Bank Swim
  • Sheridan Dance Academy
  • Powell River Chorus
  • Town Centre Mall
  • Laughing Oyster Restaurant
  • Assumption Church
  • Church of Jesus Christ of the Later Day Saints
  • Image One Salon and Spa
  • Powell River Living Magazine
  • And other too numerous too numerous to mention.
  • Thank you also to folks who donated to our renovations:
  • Rona Building Supplies
  • Canadian Tire
  • Pete’s Plumbing
  • Augusta Recyclers
  • And…the wonderful Powell River Firefighters!

Thank you to our community!! Your donation of Q Card Points purchased 26 turkeys for the Food Bank in December 2017,

Radio Thon Fill The Trailer

Thank You…To…

  • Kim Wall, Bobby Fields, and everyone at Coast FM
  • Donna Stobbart and the crew from City Transfer
  • Steve Wadsworth, Manager and all the wonderful staff at Safeway
  • Terry Peters, Fire Chief and all the Powell River Firefighters
  • Powell River Loggers Sports
  • Dave Formosa, Mayor and the City of Powell River
  • Patrick Brabazon and the Powell River Regional District
  • Gita May Nielsen and Dennis and the Menaces
  • Powell River Living and The Peak

Special Thanks to the former board of the Food Bank, in particular, Dave Garling and Diane McKendrick, and a Special Posthumous Remembrance to Gina Kendrick for her decades of selfless volunteering to help people in our community.

A big thank you to the current board and all the wonderful volunteers! We couldn’t this without you. Thanks to Debbie Dee for her leadership.

And of course…to the wonderful generous people of Powell River….we cannot begin to thank you enough for caring about your community. Thanks to you we work towards no one going hungry at this time of year, or at any other time of year….