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Feed the People Kingston

Everybody Eats

Feed the People is a volunteer-run meal program in Kingston. Every day of the year, holidays and bad weather included, we bring nutritious food to unhoused neighbours at Belle Park. People are hungry now, so we feed them now.

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Two volunteers embrace at the Feed the People welcome table at Belle Park, beside trays of prepared food and a handwritten welcome sign

We're urgently looking for volunteers

The numbers we're seeing in Kingston's unhoused community keep climbing, and we need more hands to keep up. If you can cook, drive, serve, or lead a day, there's a spot for you.

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What's going on

Kingston is under a declared food insecurity state of emergency. More people are showing up hungry than there are places set up to feed them. There's no kitchen at the park, so every meal that reaches Belle Park is prepared off-site and carried in, usually by a volunteer with a full pot and an hour to spare.

The Feed the People pop-up canopy and supply tent set up on the gravel lot at Belle Park, with trees behind

What we do

We cook and we hand out food at Belle Park. A busy service means feeding well over a hundred people, all of it prepared off-site and carried to where people already are.

  • A hand-lettered welcome board at Belle Park naming the day's serving team, with a note reading: Feed the People is self-funded and volunteer. We serve what we can afford, we do our best and with love.Four community members pose together with a custom motorbike, one wearing a red clown nose
  • A big group of volunteers gathered around a buffet table loaded with sandwiches, bread and cake inside the Belle Park tent
  • A hand-lettered whiteboard listing the day's lunch: chicken noodle soup, Caesar salad, sandwiches and dessert, with the serving crew's namesA volunteer on her porch holding up two big bags of home-baked ginger snaps and chocolate chip cookies

No intake forms, no questions about whether you've earned it. If you live in Belle Park and you're hungry, there's a plate. That's solidarity, and we mean it.

Three ways to pitch in

  • Cook or carry

    Make a big-batch meal, or lend a hand moving food and setting up at the park.

  • Give

    We run entirely on donations. Every dollar turns into food.

  • Spread the word

    Talk to your neighbours, show up, bring somebody with you next time.

We meet the people where they are

Everybody eats. People are hungry now, so we feed them now.

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