To ensure we can continue to meet the needs of the community, St. Vincent Place will be holding weekly drive-thru food drives throughout the months of July and August. Every Tuesday starting July 11, from 10am to 6pm, just pull up to our main doors at 222 Albert St. E. and we’ll come to collect your donation. Read More
Category: Announcements
Numbers are up and our shelves are empty
If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, you’ve seen the ever-increasing cost of groceries, so it likely comes as no surprise to you that the number of families visiting our food bank just keeps going up. For example, this May set a record for the number of individuals accessing our food bank at 526. The Read More
Alworth Place Neighbourhood Sale
Thank you to the residents of Alworth Place, who came together for a neighbourhood garage sale and bake sale last weekend in support of St. Vincent Place! This generous group of neighbours donated $590.10! If you’re interested in running a similar event, get in touch with us today at marketing@vincentplacessm.ca
Can you donate cereal?
Our food bank is nearly out of cereal. Donations of regular size boxes would be much appreciated. (Family size boxes are harder for clients to transport home so we prefer the smaller, regular size boxes.) All food donations can be dropped off to our main office Monday to Friday 9:30 to 3:30. Thank you for Read More
Office and thrift store closed for Victoria Day
Our office will be closed Monday, May 22. Whether you’re spending your long weekend at camp, in the garden, or catching up on some binge-watching, we hope you enjoy it!
[RESOLVED] We’re Having Facebook Trouble
*This is now resolved! Thank you for your patience* Please note that we are currently having trouble with our Facebook page, so it is not visible at this time. If you normally stay up to date with what we’ve got going on via Facebook, please check this site daily instead. We will do our best Read More
Order your St. Vincent Place Merch Today!
Show your support for St. Vincent Place with a shirt, hoodie, or hat! Order through our online store, courtesy of SK Group, until Sunday, May 7. Click here to start shopping!
Thank you to all our volunteers!
To wrap up National Volunteer Week, we want to send a special thank you to each and every one of our volunteers, without whom we would not be able to function. Our volunteers put in hundreds of hours every week here at St. Vincent Place. To put it into perspective, if we paid our volunteers Read More
Food Bank Running Low on Food
With a recent sharp decline in the food donations coming in, paired with a sharp increase in the number of clients accessing our food bank, we are currently running low on all items. All donations of nonperishables will be greatly appreciated. We are in particular need of the following items, as they are our staples: Read More
St. Vincent Place Closed Good Friday
Please note that St. Vincent Place offices and thrift store will be closed Friday, April 7 for Good Friday. We will reopen for usual operations on Monday, April 10. We wish everyone a very pleasant Easter!