Food Drive

The 2019 Food Drive will be held on Saturday, May 4th

Watch out for your food donation bag which will be delivered to your door April 26th – May 1st.

Please place your filled food donation bag on your porch by 10am on Saturday May 4th for pick up by our volunteers.

Donations can also be dropped off at one of our handy depot locations:

• Hamilton Public Library-Locke St. Branch – 285 Locke St. S.
• Blessings Christian Church/Stanley Avenue Baptist Church – 115 Stanley Avenue
• Dundurn Market – 346 Dundurn St. S.
• flo nails aesthetic laser – 141 Locke St. S.
• Pick & Sticks Music – 140 Locke St. S.
• Steel City Surplus – 182 Dundurn St. S.

And new this year!

Sponsored food bags will be distributed for our July 6th
summer food drive June 30th – July 4th

Last year we collected 16,329 pounds of food in support of Mission Services!

Since 2007, 100+ volunteers and supporters have come out each year 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 our net event dollars to Mission Services each year.

SINCE 2007 KIRKENDALL HAS DONATED $20,526 and 126,272 POUNDS OF FOOD

Mission Services relies on the ‘Fill a Bus, Feed a Family Food Drive to help prepare their Good Food Centre for the quieter summer months when the Good Food Centre will have 1,600 visits from families. 

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 2019?

Sponsor – Donate – Volunteer

For more information about volunteering please visit our Volunteer Information Page.

For volunteer opportunities contact Barb Howe at bhowe2@cogeco.ca

Looking for donation ideas?

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

20 400 food hampers are distributed each year.

Many thanks to the Food Drive’s ongoing partners

KNA thanks our generous 2019 Food Drive sponsors

Premier Sponsor

Supporting Sponsors

Contributing sponsors

Many thanks to our Friends of the Food Drive and Off-site Drive locations:

Carol Sekleski

Enchanted Chimney Sweeps

West Town Auto Services

Fortinos, Dundurn St.

Art in the Workplace

McMaster Innovation Park

Blessings Christian Church

St. Joseph’s School

Talka Credit Union Limited

Lyonsgate Montessori School