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Barrie’s Garden Centre Annual Easter Egg Hunt

We are holding our 12th annual Easter Egg Hunt at Barrie's Garden Centre. We will be providing a free Photo Booth, free Easter Egg Hunt, $5 paint a pot and a $65 Fairy Garden workshop. The event begins at 10am and ends at 2pm. Due to the expected volume of customers...

BIG THANK YOU

We would like to express our tremendous appreciation for everyone's generosity. We collected 173 000 pounds of food. This will go a very long way in helping families who are struggling with unimaginable hardships. We are overwhelmed with joy for being  a part of...

Christmas Food Drive

The Christmas Food Drive is underway. Our goal is 150 000 pounds of food for the month of December. Usage of the food bank continues to climb. We distribute 70 000 pounds of food each month. Dona tons can be made in any.grocery store or various drop boxes around the...

York University Barrie Campus Faculty of Education Students

Our faculty of education class from York is excited to help the Barrie Food Bank with a food drive! Our goal is to collect at least 70 pounds of food with the hope of collecting even more! We are excited to give back to our community by providing some basic...

Tim Hortons Food Drive November 13 to 23rd

The Barrie Advance is distributing Tim Hortons brown paper food drive bags inserted into their paper on November 13. Tim Hortons guests are asked to fill the bags and drop them into the Food Drive bins located inside Tim Hortons restaurants. The goal for Barrie and...

Feet For Life is doing a food drive

Feet For Life located on 88 Blake Street is collecting non-perishable food in November and December. Members of the public and clients can drop off donations upon visiting. Call 705-812-2272 for more information about services and hours.

Thank You! The Thanksgiving Drive Was a Huge Success

During the month of October the generous businesses, churches and citizens of Barrie donated a total of 159 408  pounds of food! Our original goal was 145 000 pounds. Because of your generosity we well surpassed our goal. Thank You from the bottom of...