Working Together

How We Help

Food for Life distributes the food in three ways:


Agencies

We provide a weekly food delivery of non-perishable items to over 40 agencies
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Outreach Programs

Food for Life has established outreach programs in low income neighbourhoods and Halton Community Housing Corporations sites in Oakville, Burlington Acton. Here a trained volunteer coordinator receives food deliveries, promotes the availability of the outreach program to the community and ensures that food is distributed equitably to families and individuals in need.
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Emergency Food

Download the guide:
"If you are need of emergency food in Halton - Where to Get Food in Halton" (PDF).

Agencies

We provide a weekly food delivery of non-perishable items to over 35 agencies:
  • Bronte Youth Centre
  • Carpenter Hospice
  • The Compass Market
  • Compass Point Bible Church
  • Compassion Society of Halton
  • Community Youth Programs Incorporated
  • Eden Community Food Bank
  • Forestview Church without Walls – Hamilton
  • Good Shepherd Centre, Family Services Food Bank
  • Good Shepherd Centre, Women’s Services, Martha’s House
  • Good Shepherd Notre Dame House
  • Grace House Incorporated
  • Halton Lighthouse Emergency Shelter
  • Halton Women’s Place
  • Home Suite Hope
  • Kerr Street Ministries
  • Kings Way Blessing Centre
  • Lions Foundation of Canada Guide Dogs
  • Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
  • Milton Meals on Wheels
  • Mission Services of Hamilton Incorporated
  • Neighbour to Neighbour
  • North End Food Bank
  • Oakville Youth Development Centre
  • Oakwood Public School
  • Peel Family Centre
  • St. Matthew’s House
  • St. Mary’s Food Bank
  • Safe Beds, Canadian Mental Health Association
  • Salvation Army Hamilton Kitchen
  • Salvation Army Milton
  • Salvation Army Oakville Community Church
  • Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Service of Halton (SAVIS)
  • Support and Housing – Halton
  • Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments (STRIDE)
  • Summit Housing and Outreach Program
  • Wesley Urban Ministries Incorporated

ReFresh Foods

ReFresh Foods is a food logistics and redistribution program of Food for Life

ReFresh Foods collects surplus perishable (including fresh & frozen) and non-perishable food products for redistribution to local food banks and social service agencies. Our goal is to reduce hunger in Halton region by collecting surplus perishable and non-perishable food items from the corporate food industry for redistribution to food banks and social service agencies.

ReFresh Foods collects from any of the following within Halton Region (Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Acton and Georgetown )
• food manufacturers
• food processors
• food distributors
• primary food producers

What Can We Collect?

Perishable and non-perishable (including fresh & frozen) quality food items that are:
• close to code
• surplus
• have damaged or mislabeled packaging
• discontinued

Who can participate in the ReFresh Foods Program?

Halton Region food banks and front line social service agencies who provide emergency food to recipients of social assistance including single parent families, families and individuals on disability pension, low-income working families, recent immigrants, seniors and youth. Agencies can contact the Food for Life Executive Director for information on ReFresh Foods membership.

ReFresh Food Member Agencies

Bill Shackleton Place
Compassion Society of Halton
Compass Point Bible Church
Food for Life
Georgetown Bread Basket
Halton Food for Thought
Home Suite Hope
Hope Place Recovery Centres- Halton Recovery House
Hope Place Recovery Centres -Women's Treatment Centre
Kerr Street Ministries
Our Community Cares
Our Kids Network- Acton Hub
Our Kids Network - Aldershot Hub
Salvation Army Burlington Community and Family Services
Salvation Army Milton
St. Alban's Anglican Church - Acton
St. Christopher's Anglican Church
St. Jude's Anglican Church
Wellington Square United Church

ReFresh Foods Advisory Council

The Refresh Foods Advisory Council is comprised of staff and volunteers from each participating member of ReFresh Foods

Chairperson - Lori Brading, Georgetown Bread Basket
Vice Chairperson - Gayle Cruikshank , Halton Food for Thought
Charlotte Redekop-Young, Executive Director Food for Life
Mina Wahidi, Compassion Society of Halton
Esperanza Peacock, Georgie Kearns, Compass Point Bible Church
David Di Sabatino, Kerr Street Ministries
Kelly Guiliani, Our Community Cares - ROCK
Janice Moro, Home Suite Hope
Sheila Slattery-Ford, Our Kids Network- Aldershot Hub
Alison Hilborn, Our Kids Network- Acton Hub
Elena DiBattista, Our Kids Network
Deborah Gatenby, Hope Place Centres
Jeff Johnston, Burlington Salvation Army Community and Family Services
Fred Grigsby, St. Christopher's Anglican Church
Liz Brophy, Bill Shackleton Place
Ron Adams, Wellington Square United Church
Brian Galligan, St. Alban's Anglican Church - Acton
Marisa Prada, Salvation Army Milton

Outreach Programs

The Food for Life Outreach Programs are the primary method to provide fresh nutritious food to hungry people in their own neighbourhoods to help them eat and live better.

An outreach program is located in a neighbourhood community within Halton Region where food from Food for Life is delivered and distributed to individuals in need. Food for Life Outreach Programs are established within neighbourhoods often in conjunction with a community partner – a church, Halton Community Housing Corporation and or a community agency (ie. Halton Multicultural Council). A community member serves as the Outreach Program Volunteer Co-ordinator. The co-ordinator is responsible for managing the Food for Life Outreach program in a specific community and to ensure the program’s objectives are met.

Programs may be held in a community room, a church, or community agency. An outreach program provides clients in need with direct access to fresh food within their neighbourhood where transportation access to food is a barrier. The food is delivered by the Food for Life truck and is generally distributed one of three ways to clients:

  • Self serve; where clients come in and make their selection from tables where the food is displayed
  • Bagged; where the volunteers divide the food into containers, and the clients then come and collect their container
  • Bagged and delivered; where the volunteers divide the food into containers, and then deliver the containers to the clients

Burlington

  • Applemead Co-op
  • Bill Shackleton Place
  • Don Quixote Co-op
  • Faith Christian Reformed Church
  • Fassel
  • Halton Children’s Aid Society Outreach - Burlington
  • Halton Mosque
  • Halton Multicultural Council - Tuesday
  • Halton Multicultural Council - Friday
  • Longmoor Seniors Outreach
  • Maple Crossing
  • Nelson Co-op
  • Nelson 24/7 Outreach
  • North End Food Bank
  • Our Community Cares
  • Pinedale Seniors Outreach
  • Prospect Outreach
  • St. Luke’s Anglican Church
  • Tansley United Church
  • Walkers Landing Outreach
  • YEP Program, Rethinking Employment, On Track

Oakville

  • Arts Arthouse (St. Aidan’s, Clearview Christian Reformed Church ,YMCA, Church of Incarnation)
  • Birch Glen Co-op
  • Glen Oaks Co-op
  • Halton Multicultural Council
  • Kerr Seniors
  • St. Hilda’s Anglican Church
  • Sheridan Woods/Clearview Christian Reformed Church
  • North Oakville Summer BBQ Outreach
  • Wellington Outreach
  • YEP Program, Rethinking Employment, On Track

Milton

  • Halton Children’s Aid Society Outreach – Milton
  • Milton Bible Church
  • YEP Program, Rethinking Employment, On Track

Acton

  • St. Albans Anglican Outreach
  • Halton Children’s Aid Society Outreach – Acton Our Kids Network
  • YEP Program, Rethinking Employment, On Track

Georgetown

  • St. Albans Anglican Church, Glen Williams

Donors & Sponsors

Food for Life recognizes cumulative giving on our website and in our Annual Report. Donations over $1,000 are listed below. For a complete list of 2010/11 donors, please see our Annual Report.

Benefactors

Patrons

Supporters

Contributors

United Ways

Vehicle Sponsorships

Food Donors

Food for Life thanks all of our generous food donors who help feed our community every day.

In 2011 Food for Life presented the Golden Apple Food Donor Awards recognizing food donors who contributed over 10,000 pounds of food to our programs in the last year. The Award Recipients are as follows:Sobeys Distribution Centre, Ippolito Food and Produce, Bayshore Vegetable Shippers, Fearmans Pork, Gordon Food Services, Sodexo, Cobs Bread, Whole Foods, Goodness Me, Longos, Costco Burlington and Oakville and Wallace & Carey. The following list recognizes all food donors which contributed throughout the year.

Food for Life Food Donors

ReFresh Foods Food Donors

  • Alasko
  • Allison's Farm Market
  • Bakery Delight
  • Bayshore Vegetable Shippers
  • Brandt Meats
  • Canada Dry and Motts
  • Costco – Burlington
  • DeJong's Dairy
  • E.D Smith
  • Faith Christian Reformed Church
  • Fearmans Pork
  • Food Bank of Waterloo
  • Food Banks Canada
  • Fresh Food Box
  • Georgetown Bread Basket
  • Gordon Food Services
  • Halton Crime Stoppers
  • Halton Food for Thought
  • Halton Fruit Tree Project
  • Holiday Inn Burlington
  • Holiday Inn Oakville
  • Ippolito Food and Produce
  • Johnson Machine Company
  • Kerr Street Ministries
  • Loblaws Superstore-Milton
  • Millard’s Refrigeration
  • Mississauga Food Bank
  • Ocean to Ocean
  • Ontario Association of Food Banks
  • Radha Soami Society Farm
  • Reckitt Benkiser
  • Rona MS Bike Tour
  • Roseland Produce
  • Second Harvest
  • Sodexo Canada
  • Sobeys Distribution Center-Milton
  • Starbuck Coffee Company
  • Sysco Canada
  • Voortmans
  • Wallace & Carey
  • Weston Bakeries