# Common Table — community food collective

> A community food collective: a free pantry, hot meals, a growing club and snack packs for schools.

*Community food collective*

## Nobody in our neighbourhood eats alone.

A free pantry, hot meals four nights a week, a growing club and snack packs for local schools — run by neighbours, for neighbours.

![Nobody in our neighbourhood eats alone.](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/hero.svg)

[Donate](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/donate) · [Volunteer with us](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/volunteer)

*Last year*

## What your support made possible

### Meals served

48,200

Hot, sit-down and free.

### Families at the pantry

1,900

Choosing their own groceries.

### Grown in the garden

620 kg

By kids and volunteers.

### Volunteers

310

Giving 21,000 hours.

*Programs*

## Four ways we feed the neighbourhood

### Community pantry

Groceries chosen with dignity, twice a week.

![Community pantry](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/program-1.svg)

[How it works](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/programs)

### Grow club

A schoolyard garden where families learn to grow food.

![Grow club](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/program-2.svg)

[Join in](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/programs)

### Hot meals

Four nights a week, one long table, everyone welcome.

![Hot meals](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/program-3.svg)

[See times](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/programs)

*Coming up*

## Join us at the table

### Harvest swap

2026-10-10

10:00 – 13:00

Grow club garden

Bring what your garden grew too much of; take what it did not.

![Harvest swap](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-2.svg)

[Harvest swap](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/events)

### Soup night fundraiser

2026-10-24

18:00

Common Table kitchen

Five soups, one long table, all proceeds to the winter pantry.

![Soup night fundraiser](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-1.svg)

[Soup night fundraiser](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/events)

### Volunteer orientation

2026-11-07

09:00 – 12:00

Main hall

Two hours to learn the ropes, meet the team and pick your shifts.

![Volunteer orientation](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-5.svg)

[Volunteer orientation](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/events)

[All events](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/events)

*Voices*

## From our table

### Samira

I came for groceries the winter I lost my job. Now I run the Tuesday pantry shift.

Volunteer since 2023

### Mr. Delgado

The snack packs mean nobody in my class is hungry by lunch.

Grade 4 teacher, Lakeview School

### Frank

Best soup in the west end, and you get to sit with your neighbours.

Thursday regular

### Aisha

We send our surplus bread here every night. Nothing goes in the bin anymore.

Eastside Bakery

### Tom

My kids learned where carrots come from. So did I.

Grow club family

## $25 feeds a family for a week.

Monthly gifts let us plan the pantry, not just hope for it.

![$25 feeds a family for a week.](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-1.svg)

[Give monthly](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/donate) · [Give once](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/donate)

## Stories from the table

One short letter a month: what we cooked, who helped, what we need.

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*Follow along*

## This week at Common Table

Instagram

@commontable.example

[This week at Common Table](https://instagram.com/)

![](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-1.svg)

Soup's on!

![](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-2.svg)

Tomatoes, finally

![](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-3.svg)

Tuesday pantry crew

![](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-4.svg)

Bread from Eastside

![](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-5.svg)

Garden day

![](https://t-charity.clearcms.app/media/photo-6.svg)

Holiday tables