Neighbors Helping Neighbors
The Honey Brook Food Pantry provides a 3-4 day supply of various food items on a monthly basis to neighbors in need within the Honey Brook community. Our mission is to serve them with respect while empowering them toward food security and independence.
Our normal Distribution Days are:
The 2nd Wednesday of the month (10:00 am- 12:30 pm)
The 4th Wednesday of the month (4:00 pm - 6:30 pm)
See our Calendar of Events for each month's distribution dates.
Phone for Hours: 610-273-6102
Or click below to view our Calendar of Events.
Located at Good Food Distribution Center, Door #8
5064 Horseshoe Pike
Honey Brook, PA 19344
Announcements
Tips from the Food Pantry Wellness Tent! This month is a focus on fiber! Click here to read more.
The Honey Brook Food Pantry is open for all normal distributions. The distributions will be utilizing a drive-through format. All clients are to remain in their vehicles. You will be given instructions upon arrival. Food Pantry volunteers will place all items in the vehicles and will maintain social distancing rules.
For those in need of assistance, make sure to check out our Getting Help page here. Lots of phone numbers and helpful tips for those who need it.
Golf Fundraiser on October 12th
Register online to golf: HERE
If the link doesn't work, copy and paste this url in your browser: https://www.golfgenius.com/ggid/awapdj
Become a Sponsor!
Calling all sponsors! If you are interested in one of our many opportunities to sponsor our golf fundraiser, please register here: https://honeybrook.golfems2.com/event/hb-food-pantry-sponsorships
Please note that the Putting Contest Sponsor is no longer available...but we have several other options - please click the link above to check it out!
Rhythm & Brews 2021
Limited Number of Tickets Available! Join us on October 2nd 6:30pm at the Honey Brook Golf Club. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
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Pantry News from the Board Chairman
Activities at the pantry continue at a fast pace as the summer months kick in. Although the flow of clients during our regular distributions has slowed markedly since the dramatic first quarter acceleration, we still served 4% more people than in June last year, resulting in so many text messages like these two….
Words cannot express how grateful we are for the food bank. It has enabled us to eat 3 meals a day. You do such a great job, thank you so much!
Your food bank has blessed my family beyond words. Because of it, my family is eating more vegetables and fruits and less ...well baked goods lol. Thank you for all you do and a big thank you to all the volunteers. Several new government benefit programs have enabled many families to achieve some level of food security without the benefit of our help. Many pantries in the county have seen reductions of up to 50% this quarter and this is certainly good news. It allows us to focus even more on the health and quality of our offering, enables us to meet emergencies within a day and to re-double our efforts to identify and help every family in need. We have also begun to engage our clients in the quest to increase the 1,725 unique families we have registered and served since inception.
WHAT’S NEW??
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During May and June, we surveyed over 100 (anonymous) families to assess satisfaction and unmet needs.
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The overall satisfaction rate of 98% was certainly gratifying as were the 31% making positive “write-in” wonderful comments like: Pantry is Great….Thank you….So Grateful, Bless you….Very Appreciative, Service, Smooth, Well Organized, Needs always met, Love all the Volunteers
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The great majority of families also presented significant medical issues including 42% with high blood pressure and 38% with diabetes and as many respondents requested adult incontinence products as did child diapers
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Our Board of Directors’ recent strategy session fleshed out several plans to address menu selection
adjustments to focus even more on healthy menu options and other needs identified by our clients -
With seed money donated in memory of one of our long-term volunteers, we are in the process of establishing an outdoor “WELLNESS TENT” staffed to provide blood pressure screenings, health education and numerous resources to help meet our clients’ needs at each distribution.
Regardless of what lies ahead….with our incomparable volunteers, supporters and friends, the Honey Brook Food Pantry is well prepared to do whatever is needed to address food insufficiency in the area. The community can be100% confident that we will be there each week with a great supply of healthy food whenever it is needed, especially in emergency situations.
Regards,
Kenneth R Ross, Board Chair
610-291-0067
Honey Brook Food Pantry where donated food and financial support are always needed.
A non-profit 501(c) (3) organization I.D. 47-178665