Meal Box Program

Fresh Food Weekly is a food charity run through The VanDyck Foundation, which is a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency. The Fresh Food Weekly program provides a free, biweekly meal box of fresh and locally-sourced groceries to low-income families residing in the City of Barrie and the Town of Innisfil. We seek to improve food security by creating a reliable avenue to get fresh food into the homes of people who really need it. The ripple effects of the pandemic are impacting everyone - but it's hitting the most vulnerable in our community the hardest. There is an unprecedented need to help those who are struggling to eat on a daily basis and the goal of Fresh Food Weekly is to alleviate this struggle to some degree. Whether they're a single mom working three jobs, have a disability and literally can't work, or are elderly and live alone and have no one to look after them, Fresh Food Weekly improves food security by breaking down every single barrier preventing these people from eating three meals a day.