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GARDEN TOOL DRIVE in partnership with NB Community Harvest Gardens – May 7-18! Click here for more details.
We’re moving Monday, May 28th and WE NEED YOUR HELP:
Please NO CLOTHING DONATIONS during the month May while we prepare for our move.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AT THE NEW LOCATION
Monday through Friday – 8:30AM – 3:00PM
- Food sorting, food labelling and stocking of shelves.
- Small carpentry projects.
- Some painting projects.
- People to train to be greeters for May 28th.
- Interviewers/Intake of clients on open days.
- Administration skills – answering phones, receipting, general office tasks
- Construction of community gardens.
- Communications Committee looking for new members.
- Events Committee looking for new members for “Sneak Peek” and “Fall Open House” events.
- Funding Grant/Proposal writers needed.
Click here to download our Volunteer Application Form. For more information, please email us at foodbank@nb.aibn.com or call us at 459-7461.
Other Volunteer Opportunities:
C and B Garden Plots – This will be the 3rd year that C and B Gardens has hosted a garden specifically for the Fredericton Food Bank. We are seeking help from volunteers – Individuals, Groups of any kind and Local Businesses – preparing the soil, planting, weeding and harvesting. We at C and B Gardens have the opportunity to give back to the community by providing the space in our garden area for the growing of fresh produce for the Fredericton Food Bank. Our first meeting is schedule for Sat. May 5th at 6PM – for more details please check our website www.candb-gardenplots.ca/ffb.html The garden location is www.candb-gardenplots.ca
NEW LOCATION DETAILS – Opening Day: Monday, May 28, 2012
Who Benefits? The 2,500 individuals who visit us monthly, 36% of whom are children.
What’s Changing?
- No more line-ups in the parking lot! Clients will no longer have to stand out in the elements
- Real meeting rooms with wheelchair accessibility! Our interviewers can now conduct their client’s assessments in privacy – and not in an open space or our kitchenette.
- All our food can now be stored on-site reducing our handling by 50%!
- Ergonomic shelving and storage system means no more back-braking lifting for our staff and volunteers!
Why? This is about serving our community and feeding it for growth and sustainability. Most importantly though, it is about treating people in a manner that maintains dignity, challenges inequality and builds community.
How? Having a location that is bright, spacious and can accommodate the growing need for this type of service in ourcommunity.
What we Need? Fredericton Community Services accepts donations of food, clothing, hygiene items, baby items, small household appliances, books, school supplies and other items that can be given to someone in need. The primary use of Fredericton Community Services is for emergency food hampers. The average client can access the food bank once per month for food. Each hamper contains approximately a 3-4 day supply of food including fresh milk, eggs, produce and bread as available.
About the Fredericton Food Bank – The Fredericton Food Bank has been serving the Fredericton region since 1984. As time has evolved, so to has our role in the community. As such, we are changing to reflect our modern community and becoming a “COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE”
A Community Food Centre is a place where people come together around a good meal, learn how to grow, cook, and choose healthy food; and find inspiration to work towards change by the powerful persuasion of good food.
Our new food centre will maintain emergency food programs, but will complement them with a range of capacity-and skills-building programs. Increasing food access and equity, reducing social isolation, and improving health and food skills is certainly our goal for the future. More information will be posted in the near future.
