Our New Location

The Fredericton Food Bank

Fredericton Community Services Inc cares for our community, the environment and is working towards developing additional services to help assist our clients towards self-sufficiency addressing some of the root causes of poverty.

We are responding to health decline, basic food needs and inability of more families finding it difficult to meet their nutritional requirements.

In seven months the Food Bank has served 6,240 food hampers, a 12.8% increase over this same period last year.

The needs are growing. The community is being challenged to ensure there is enough food for all. What can we do???

Our solution after carefully evaluating the needs of our clients and the greater Fredericton Community the Food Bank will purchase and move to the former Green Village Garden Centre located on 686 Riverside Drive. The new location is an ideal opportunity to develop additional services to help assist our clients towards self-sufficiency addressing some of the root causes of poverty.

The new facility will provide ample warehousing on site and private confidential administration space with plenty of parking. The new location is accessible by bus and will improve service to our clientele on both sides of the river. The Food Bank will continue to serve persons with limited mobility and other traveling challenges with the MOBILE SERVICE.

(The Food Bank serves a 50 kilometer radius from the city’s boundaries with a population of approximately 124,000 people. )

In time we hope to develop new  services which could include a buying club, a community kitchen and community gardens. Using Food as the Opportunity to reach people, the new Food Center will focus on teaching, showing by example, using the experts as facilitators, cooking affordable fresh food, recycling, composting, teaching about the ecology and how to grow sustainable foods. We hope to assist in developing life skills, building self-esteem and reducing hunger in a positive and sustainable way.

Quote: “Using food as an opportunity to create an environment in which people come together to solve a variety of problems related to food – or, stated more positively, a place where people can 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.” – “The Stop Community Food Center” Davenport, West, Toronto, a leading example www.thestop.org. (In Every Community a Place for Food” June 2010)

The Food Bank will take ownership of the new property by the end of August. The purchase of this property is made possible in part through a bank mortgage, corporate donations to our “Building Fund”, applications to foundations and grants…. And the unwavering support of our generous and caring donors and volunteers.