The Sorrento Food Bank proudly serves the communities of:
Balmoral, Blind Bay, Eagle Bay,
Notch Hill, Sorrento & White Lake
To our Community Members,
We at Sorrento Food Bank would like to reach out to you, our community. The Sorrento Food Bank has a huge food drive in September that we need many volunteers to execute successfully!
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, organizes a food drive all across Canada. We collect food in Sorrento and Blind Bay which is all then donated to the Sorrento Food Bank. This fundraiser has been running for many years and with few volunteers.
The Thanksgiving Food Drive is a huge event for us! Over 2000 pounds of food is collected to restock our shelves, and by September, we really need it!
What we are proposing is for “Friends of the Food Bank” to adopt their street and maybe one other to distribute paper bags, one week, and then collect them the next week full of food donations to bring into the Food Bank! Most people know their neighbors, know if they are permanent residents or away, and this inside information would be very helpful! Not to mention we have friends, kids or siblings that live on other streets that also would be interested in participating in this event!
We truly feel we could cover so many more streets and areas if we had more community members helping us out!! Many hands makes light work for everyone, please consider becoming a “Friend of the Food Bank” to support us in this event.
If you are interested in supporting us in this worthy event, please forward your name, email address and phone number to the Sorrento Food Bank.
sorfood@shaw.ca or give us a call 250-253-3663
The Shuswap Fire Departments boot drive at Village Grocer brought in $2,586 in cash donations and 290lbs of food! Thank you to all who donated to the Sorrento Food Bank this year, wishing you all a happy holidays and New Year!
The Christmas train this year featured the Barenaked Ladies which raised $1,500 in cash donations as well as 780lbs of food! WOW
We send a BIG thanks out to White Lake New Horizon for their donation of $650.
We would like to thank the Eagle Bay Community Association for their generous donation of $500.
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Thanksgiving Food Drive! We collected 5622.40 pounds of food with 7% waste so far. There was also $1,325 in cash donations. A special thank you to Aquatech Marine for their $500 donation!
We thank the Eagle Bay Fire Department for their latest food drive! They collected $1,575 in donations and 667 pounds of food!!
Any inquiries for the Sorrento Food Bank Board of Directors can be directed to:
Email: sorfood@shaw.ca Phone: (250) 566-3694
and the most qualified member of the board to address your inquiry will respond on our next business day!