The Food Pantry will be closed Tuesday June 25 and Thursday June 27. Our Lady of Fatima church will be hosting their Summer Adventure Program from Sat June 22 through Thursday June 27.

Deb and Terry Kenney are donating the proceeds of their Walk For Hunger camapign to The Sudbury Food Pantry! The walk is May 5, 2019.

You can support them and The Pantry Here: http://support.projectbread.org/goto/terryanddebkeeney

Thanks Deb and Terry!

The Sudbury Community Food Pantry celebrated its 27th anniversary in 2017. The 89 volunteers, contributed 6,351 hours, in order, to serve our clients. Your commitment and dedication has enabled us to aid people who are struggling financially by providing them with wholesome food and personal care items that promote healthy living and doing so in a manner that respects their dignity. I have heard on numerous occasions from my peers in other towns that clients of their pantry have described the Sudbury food pantry as a place with a friendly and welcoming environment.

From coordinating the volunteers, monitoring the pantry answering machine, stocking the shelves, picking up from: donation boxes at Sudbury Farms and Shaw’s, purchases from The Greater Boston Food Bank, delivering them to the pantry, distributing the food, registering the clients, taking cardboard to the landfill, to processing the food collected in the various food drives and deliveries from the GBFB, you have enabled The Sudbury Community Food Pantry to become an exceptional organization.

2017 was a year with surprises. With the economy growing day by day and the unemployment numbers low, we expected the amount of people seeking help from our pantry would be down, considering 2015-2016 were flat. To our surprise The demand was up sharply, starting with January which was almost as busy as November which is traditionally our busiest month. In 2017 we served 909 different families an increase of 6.8% over 2016 and we had 3,105 client visits an increase of 9.95%. over 2016. (see graph below) We added 394 new clients in 2017 while 336 no-longer needed our services.

You can download our full report here.

Read his post here.

The Sudbury Community Food Pantry celebrated its 26th anniversary in 2016. The 93 volunteers, contributed 6,351 hours serving our clients. Their commitment and dedication has enabled us to aid people who are struggling financially by providing them with food and personal care items that promote healthy living and doing so in a manner that preserves their dignity. I have heard on numerous occasions from my peers in other towns that clients of their pantry have described the Sudbury food pantry as a place with a friendly and welcoming environment.

From coordinating the volunteers, monitoring the pantry answering machine, stocking the shelves, picking from: donation boxes at Sudbury Farms and Shaw’s, purchases from The Greater Boston Food Bank and delivering them to the pantry, distributing the food, registering the clients, stocking the shelves, processing the food collected in the various food drives and deliveries from the GBFB, our volunteers have enabled The Sudbury Community Food Pantry to become an exceptional organization.

2016 was not a year without its challenges. We scrambled to get enough turkeys for Thanksgiving as the after effects of 20 million turkeys being euthanized because of the avian flu in 2015, meant there were fewer eggs laid. We were however able to obtain 112 Turkeys and 60 large roasting chickens.

There are definite signs of the economy improving and stabilizing as the number of clients we served was down 13.9% from 2014 and up 2.2% from 2015 and client visits down 11.8% from 2014 and down 1% from 2015. We added 370 new clients in 2016 while 351 clients no longer needed our services. This is consistent with the drop in unemployment numbers and the jobs report.

You can download the complete report here: The Sudbury Community Food Pantry 2016 A Year In Review