Volunteers needed for city-wide Big Blue Food Drive

St. Vincent Place's Big Blue Food Drive is just around the corner and the organization is asking for your help.

This one-day, city-wide event takes place on Sept. 28 and helps fill the shelves of the food bank for the upcoming winter.

Volunteers are needed for the following roles:  

• driver/runner teams to collect the donations (a total of 50 pairs),
• sorting, packing, and storing the donations once they arrive at St. Vincent Place

More information on these tasks can be found here.

For more information, see the press release below: 

St. Vincent Place is excited to announce that our annual Big Blue Food Drive will be on Sept. 28, and you can help make sure it’s a success! The Big Blue is a one-day, city-wide food drive that helps to fill our food bank shelves for the start of winter. Donors simply place their donations at their curb by 10 a.m. on the day of the event and our volunteers do the rest.

We’re now looking for volunteers who have a few hours to spare to help out with the event. We have several roles we need to fill, including driver/runner teams to collect the donations (a total of 50 pairs), as well as sorting, packing, and storing the donations once they arrive at St. Vincent Place.

More information about what is involved in all of these tasks, as well as the time commitment, is available on our website at www.vincentplacessm.ca/food-bank/big-blue.

For those who want to help out while getting some fresh air, we are also looking for volunteers to help drop off flyers in mailboxes (in their own neighbourhoods or beyond) between now and the event. This is a great way for anyone to help, but especially high school students who need to earn some volunteer hours.

If you’d like to volunteer to help with the Big Blue Food Drive, please complete the form on our website at www.vincentplacessm.ca/food-bank/big-blue. You can also contact Sara at marketing@vincentplacessm.ca or 705-253-2770 ext. 202.