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Meals To Go!
Pressed for time? Order quality meals to keep on hand for those days you just don’t have time to cook. Fresh, local and organic ingredients, at a can’t-beat-it price too! Order from the Rotary Club of Red Deer East Community Kitchen and enjoy quality food even on the run!
Kiwanis Club of Red Deer hosts a different kind of “Survivor”!
The Kiwanis Club of Red Deer is hosting a new FUNdraiser for the Food Bank… a Grocery Gift Card SURVIVOR game! Running November 1 - December 13, with eliminations December 15 - 17 and final draw happening December 18 at JD’s Bar & Grill!
Student blends art with social impact
“Unhampered” is a Food Drive and Art Print Exchange happening at the Red Deer Polytechnic on Thursday, November 7. Bring a donation for the Red Deer Food Bank and choose a student art print to take home.
HungerCount 2024: We were not the only food bank in Canada to run out of food.
Hunger Count 2024 was released on October 28, and the numbers continue to be grim for many Canadians. More than ever, your local Food Bank needs your support. Read about the results and what’s happening at Red Deer Food Bank here.
Red Deer Food Bank in the news.
With all the activities happening at the Food Bank, we’ve had lots of interviews, on-site coverage and stories popping up all over the place — and we wanted to share them all here.
Food Bank receives Co-op Community Spaces grant
Red Deer Food Bank was selected as one of 14 recipients of the 2024 Co-op Community Spaces funding to develop their urban agriculture project.
Miss Teenage Red Deer provides books to young readers through hampers
Miss Teenage Red Deer and founder of Literacy Warriors 24 on YouTube, has a passion for early childhood literacy, and is partnering with the Food Bank to put books into the hands of children in the city this summer.
“Adopt-a-Kid” this summer: Buy lunch.
Nearly 40% of the people who are fed by the Red Deer Food Bank are children. Here is how they are leveraging their 40th Anniversary to help feed children this summer.
Poverty Report Cards: Canada is missing the mark.
The Food Banks Canada Poverty Report Cards are out, and no one in the country is going to win any scholarships. Get our local perspective in Red Deer as compared to the national profile.
Let’s prevent a “Cruel Summer”
We don’t want it to be a Cruel Summer for anyone needing food for their household… and to prevent that, we need your help.