Flora Hall Donation
Flora Hall Brewery owner, Dave Longbottom, is seen presenting a generous donation to Food Centre Chair, Allison Dingle, in May. Flora Hall is also donating 5% of every take-out meal to the Food Centre. Photo: Peter Simpson.
Face Shields for the Food Centre
Summer student Kevin Chatter and Acting Coordinator, Billy El-Cheikh, try out the face shields presented to the Food Centre by Matt Chiykowski of Conquer COVID- 19. We also received a supply of sanitizing spray and hand sanitizer to … Read More
April Update
We are now serving clients pre-packed food in the former Chapel.
AGM for 2019
The Food Centre’s AGM took place via Zoom on Wednesday, May 27 AGM report, Centretown Emergency Food Centre, 2019 Download PDF version In 2019, the Centretown Emergency Food Centre’s 41th year of service, clients remained our principal focus … Read More
Metro Food Drive
On Saturday and Sunday, February 22/23, McKeen Metro Glebe hosted a food drive for our Food Centre. Thanks to McKeen’s and the generosity of their shoppers, we received about $1,400 worth of food and raised $1,494 in cash … Read More
School Food Drives
The Food Centre has received generous support from all 11 local schools this year, including 7 schools in December. We are very grateful to their students, parents and teachers who make this support happen, as the donations from … Read More
Meet and Greet for Federal Candidates
The Food Centre, along with two Health Centres and our neighbouring Food Centres, organized a very successful Meet and Greet on Wednesday, October 6 for Federal Candidates in the Ottawa Centre riding to give our clients a chance … Read More
Walk for the Centre
4th Annual Walk for the Centre The fourth annual Walk for the Centre, organized by Centretown Churches Social Action Committee, was held on Sunday, October 6. Over 100 walkers came to raise awareness for food security in downtown … Read More
Ottawa Bytown Rotary Club’s food drive
Volunteers from the Ottawa Bytown Rotary Club held another successful food drive for us on September 28 at Loblaws on Isabella, collecting over $1,000 in food and $600 in cash donations. We are very grateful for their generous … Read More
Lenten Food Drives
The Food Centre was the beneficiary of amazing food drives during Lent by Corpus Christi School and by Canadian Martyrs Church. As well, many other CCSAC churches made special contributions to us, and we are most grateful. And … Read More