Annual Impact Report -2025
For close to 40 years, the London Food Bank has been helping our community share its food resources — neighbours helping neighbours through times of challenge, uncertainty, and hope.
In 2025, that spirit of compassion and generosity continued to shine brightly. Together with donors, volunteers, community partners, businesses, and supporters across our city, we worked to ensure that thousands of individuals and families had access to food and support when they needed it most.
This report is a reflection of that shared effort. Behind every number is a person, a family, a volunteer, a donor, or a caring act that helped strengthen our community. We remain deeply grateful for the trust and support that make this work possible, and hopeful in the knowledge that London continues to be a community that shows up for one another.
In 2025 we distributed 67,322 hampers of emergency food. This relates to helping 199,251 individuals on an aggregate basis.
14,339 different households, or 38,043 different people were helped in 2025.
9% of London’s population currently relies on assistance from the Food Bank
An average of 5,610 households or 16,604 individuals per month receive help directly from the Food Bank or our satellite locations.
HIGHLIGHTS - Clients at the Food Bank
HIGHLIGHTS - Agencies we Help
We helped over 50 different agencies and over 100 different programs with direct food support, harvest bucks gift cards for food purchases, or direct program/food purchases.
This includes the homeless lunch program (ie 519Pursuit, YOU), assisting school breakfast and lunch programs (ie VON, Investing in Children) , and direct agency support for food programs (ie MOWL, Salvation Army, Paul’s Place.)
A total of 38% of food was distributed to other agencies. This includes - 18% of food donations directly to other agencies, and 20% through satellite locations. During City Wide Food Drives, this number increases to 60% of donated food goes other agencies, 40% is distributed at the London Food Bank.
60% of purchased food went to other agencies through the Harvest Buck and Gift Card Distribution programs
Volunteers - Citizens in Action
There are over 4000 people currently on the volunteer database.
on average, 75-100 volunteers come every day to the Food Bank to assist with the operations.
Our Volunteers do everything! They serve clients, they sort food, they pack the hampers, they answer the phones, they drive and pick up donations. The can do anything!!
52,000 plus hours is the amount of time that volunteers helped in the operations of the food bank throughout the year. INVALUABLE - That is over $1.5 million dollars of service!
Food - Getting Fresher
a total of 3.6 millions pounds of food was received by the London Food Bank. This is up 2% from the year previously
60% of the donations were FRESH or FROZEN, including fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk dairy, products, bread and meet.
Produce donations alone were 979,000 pounds or 27% of all food donations.
We are growing. We have a greenhouse, gardens, and working on a container growing (Farm in a Box) to grow the freshest of foods.
We are reclaiming and reducing food waste. Through the Community Refresh program, we pick up from 51 retail stores
HIGHLIGHTS - Financial Snapshot
Just over $15 million dollars of support from the community was given in 2025.
Of this, 65% were in kind donations of food, worth over $9million.
London’s citizens, businesses, groups and foundations donated over $4million.
Just under $15 million dollars of expenses were directed towards community needs.
Of this, over 88% of all expenses were directed towards food and food purchases. (9% on programming, 2% was spent on administration, 1% on fundraising.)