Welcome to The Colchester Food Bank
The Colchester Food Bank is located at 49 Esplanade in downtown Truro, NS (entrance off Forrester St), serving hundreds of Truro and Colchester County families each and every month. In 2015, 21,763* persons were served -- 6,634 of them were children. Of those, 361 people were first-time clients who had never visited the food bank before.
Colchester Food Bank is a not-for-profit agency that receives no government funding for its day-to-day operations, relying on its generous donors to help provide food for those in need. We have two employees, Executive Director, Mary DeAdder and Coordinator, Darlene DeAdder, as well as dozens of dedicated and hard working volunteers. The food bank also has a 15-member volunteer Board of Directors.
In 2015, staff and volunteers prepared 9,791 food boxes, totalling 529,395 pounds of food.
*Number of persons served includes repeat clients who visited the food bank more than once in 2015.
Some families may use the food bank once or twice while others need help on a monthly basis.
Colchester Food Bank is a not-for-profit agency that receives no government funding for its day-to-day operations, relying on its generous donors to help provide food for those in need. We have two employees, Executive Director, Mary DeAdder and Coordinator, Darlene DeAdder, as well as dozens of dedicated and hard working volunteers. The food bank also has a 15-member volunteer Board of Directors.
In 2015, staff and volunteers prepared 9,791 food boxes, totalling 529,395 pounds of food.
*Number of persons served includes repeat clients who visited the food bank more than once in 2015.
Some families may use the food bank once or twice while others need help on a monthly basis.