Community Christmas Meeting | Supporting Glen Innes Food Bank
Schedule
Fri Dec 12 2025 at 03:30 am to 04:30 am
UTC+13:00Location
Kohimarama Yacht Club (KYC) | Auckland, AU
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Share in the Season and join us for a holiday date with the Glen Innes Food Bank on Friday 12 December. Join us for Christmas cake and the chance to meet a few of the wonderful volunteers who coordinate the Glen Innes Food Bank.
An RSVP is appreciated (to help us plan the Christmas cake!) but not required. RSVP to [email protected] or online:
https://www.brookevanvelden.nz/christmas_community_meeting_supporting_the_glenn_innes_food_bank
If youβd like to help stock the Food Bank shelves for the holiday season, please feel free to bring along any non-perishable food items.
The Glen Innes Food Bank is proudly run
by volunteers and provides a
much-needed place for struggling
families, who live locally, to come for a
food parcel once other avenues of help
have been exhausted. Any
non-perishable food item will help
support our most vulnerable across the
Christmas period.
Glen Innes Food Bank - About Us
The Glen Innes Food Bank has been successfully operating for over 35 years after having been originally started by a Glen Innes Community constable, Arnold Dickey, who saw the need for such a service when he was stationed at the adjacent G.I Police Station.
It now operates as an independent financial entity in close partnership with the Glen Innes Citizens Advice Bureau and is run entirely by volunteers most of whom are also volunteers at the Citizens Advice Bureau.
This partnership allows food parcel recipients access to other services offered by the CAB such as budgeting advice, family court navigators and legal advice amongst others.
The Glen Innes Food Bankβs aim is to be able to provide food to people who are experiencing temporary extreme financial difficulty to help them get back on their feet as quickly as possible.
The Food Bank relies entirely on donations of both food and funds from generous organisations and individuals who recognise the community benefits the Food bank offers and are therefore keen to give their support.
In recent years we have seen an increasing demand for food parcels and we anticipate giving out about 2,000 food parcels to families this year.
Each parcel has a retail value of about $100 most of which is donated to us but we do need to buy additional items from time to time. We also need funds to cover our running costs including the costs of running our van we use for food collections.
We are most thankful to everyone who is able to support us and it is only through this support that we can continue to operate.
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Where is it happening?
Kohimarama Yacht Club (KYC), 80 Tamaki Dr, Kohimarama, Auckland 1071, New Zealand, AucklandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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