Our annual operating budget is about $420,000 / year. Our biggest expense is the cost of distributing the food hampers which includes staffing, rent & utilities, vehicle fuel & insurance and food purchases. As you can imagine, it takes a large effort to collect, warehouse and distribute hundreds of tons of food, supervise over 50 volunteers, assemble thousands of hampers every month and coordinate the events that the food bank has each year to raise food, resources and awareness.

The Surrey Food Bank is roughly the same size as a neighborhood Safeway store. Sadly, the difference is that there is a gap in the services we are able to provide. Unlike Safeway, come Monday we often don't know what we are going to have available for our food line. Food and cash donations always fall short of the need.

All funding comes directly from our community. We do not receive government assistance to operate any part of the organization.

If you are interested in donating money or items in kind a tax receipt will be issued for amounts over $10.00.

Food donations can be made at all major grocery chains and firehalls in our community. We distribute over three million dollars worth of food annually.

Your support of our events is greatly appreciated. Click on this link for an incomplete wish list of our needs.

We do not solicit door-to-door for food or money.