Food Drive

Thank you Kirkendall!
Our 10th Annual Fill a Bus, Feed a Family Food Drive has been a huge success!

Together we’ve donated 109,577 lbs of food and $14,126 in support of Mission Services

See photos and videos of our 2017 Food Drive here!

Event info

Each year 50+ volunteers come out to support this great community event. Thanks to the generosity of the City of Hamilton, the HSR and ATU Local 107, volunteers cover the streets of Kirkendall in an HSR bus, picking up food collection bags left on doorsteps along the way. Donations are brought back to McMaster Innovation Park, our host location, to be organized before they’re loaded onto a Mission Services truck. Businesses, organizations and residents of Kirkendall also come together providing support to cover our Drive expenses through sponsorships and donations. Their generosity not only covers our expenses but also allows us to donate net event dollars to Mission Services each year.

Mission Services relies on the ‘”Fill a Bus, Feed a Family” food drive to keep its shelves at their Good Food Centre stocked for two months of the year. That means the Drive provides food for over 1,600 families and households who visit during this time period. In fact the “Fill a Bus, Feed a Family” Food Drive is Mission Service’s largest community driven food drive.

The Kirkendall Neighbourhood Association’s ‘Fill a Bus, Feed a Family’ annual food drive gives us enough food to stock the shelves at our Good Food Centre for almost two months. As a result, well over 1,000 families have access to healthy food to maintain a good diet while they are facing financial or employment challenges. This is an incredible gesture of generosity and community building. We are honoured to call the Kirkendall neighbourhood our friends and allies in the fight for food security in Hamilton.

How can you get involved in 2018?

Sponsor – Donate – Volunteer

Looking for donation ideas? Choose items from Mission Services wishlist

Mission Services aims to use healthy food to challenge inequality and build community.

Mission Services’ Good Food Centre is open 5 days a week and serves over 800 families each month

• 6,000 children in Hamilton rely on food banks each year
• 10,607 hampers were distributed by Mission Services last year
• Mission Services estimates distributing 106,070 food hampers over the next 10 years

Many thanks to the Food Drive’s ongoing partners

KNA thanks our generous Food Drive sponsors and donors

Premier Sponsor

Supporting Sponsors

Contributing sponsors

Friends of the Food Drive

Stanley Avenue Baptist Church, Chris Dunn, Enchanted Chimney Sweeps, Carol Sekleski, West Town Auto, ProCare Athletic Therapy , Paul and Maria Doesburg

Words of thanks from Mission Services’ Good Food Centre visitors:

“This is one of the only places where I can get fresh fruits and vegetables. That’s a real treat for my grandsons. ‘Grandma, apples!’ they’ll cry. And if there are any cookies in the hamper, oh my goodness!” – Vickie, grandmother

 “I never had to use a food bank before, and I almost didn’t want to ask for help. Ironically, I used to always be the one saying we needed to donate. . . It really takes the edge off when you can’t afford to look after your own kids. It also helps to keep them healthy, and for that I am very thankful.” – Sara, mother of two

 “When you donate or buy food for someone, you’re doing an incredible thing. You’re feeding someone who needs it. I don’t know what we would do without people like that. They make an incredible impact on our community.” – Ngozi, Good Food Centre visitor