Community Angel Food Runners Program

 This video was taped 4 years ago and some of the statistics have changed (see below)

Community Angel Food Runners is the prepared and perishable food recovery program of the GVFBS. Through the Community Angel Food Runners, we receive quality food donated from restaurants, hotels, cafeterias and schools. We then deliver the food to meal-providing agencies. Food Runner saves 725,000 lbs of food yearly, creating 1.25 million meals for people in need.

For more information on this program please send an email to foodrunners@foodbank.bc.ca

OPERATING HOURS

8:00am – 4:00pm
Sunday – Friday

For a pick up¸ call the Community Angel Food Runners at 604-834-7457.

Food Donor Encouragement Act

In April of 1997, the Provincial Government unanimously passed the Food Donor Encouragement Act. The act is intended to protect donors from liability as they act in good faith to donate surplus perishable food, while ensuring recipients’ rights are protected. The act encourages organizations to make donations of perishable food and provides a valuable source of nutrition to our recipients.

How it Works

Community Angel Food Runners is committed to our generous donors, our recipients, and to the safe handling of all food donations.

• Convenient Pick-Up: Pick-ups can be arranged on a fixed schedule or on an as-needed basis.
   
• Safe Handling: Disposable aluminum containers are provided to donors for the safe storage of food donations. 
   
• Cool Storage: Refrigerated vans are used for all pick-ups to ensure the quality and safety of food donations. 
   
• Quality Inspection: Community Angel Food Runners staff inspect food both at the time of pick-up and again before it is delivered to agencies. 
   
• To Your Door: Quality food is delivered to agencies on the same day it is collected.

Safety and Standards

Community Angel Food Runners and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority have worked together to develop food selection, storage and transportation guidelines for all donors and recipient agencies. All staff directly involved in routing or handling food has completed the Food Safe course. Donor and recipient agencies have an appointed staff contact with Food Safe certification.

TESTIMONIALS

“Lookout has had the honour of working with the GVFBS for over 20 years. Throughout this time. our relationship with them has been essential in allowing us to provide roughly 50,000 meals each year at just one of our sites. Food Runners has been a God-send to our organization. Their staff have always been both polite and courteous and demonstrate a genuine desire to work with us in meeting the nutritional needs of those less fortunate.”

Larry Way
Lookout Emergency Aid Society

"Food Runners regularly pick up surplus food from our kitchen that would otherwise be wasted. The program has enabled Hotel Vancouver to be part of an effort to reduce hunger in our community thus bridging the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Our relationship with the program continues to grow and is one we are proud to support."

Mr. Robert LeCrom
Executive Chef, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver