Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Peter's RC Parish, Calgary

Vincentians with St. Peter's deliver more than 60 food hampers every month.

Other volunteers pack and deliver bread donated by a local bakery, purchase food with donated funds, gather donated food, or pickup and sort food donated by Catholic schools in our parish.

How can you help?

Volunteer: Call 403 288 9040 or email svdp@st-peters.ca

Donate non-perishable food items:

Canned fish & meats Oatmeal (1kg) Peanut butter Granola bars Canned pasta

Canned fruit Canned beans

Donate cash or grocery store gift cards

Use the SSVP envelopes found in pew boxes or in the SSVP Donation Box located in the narthex.

E-transfer funds to treasurerssvp@outlook.com OR set up an auto-deposit. Forms are available

from the SSVP donation box located in the Narthex.

Tax Receipts: Cash and card donations valued at more than $25/year receive a charitable

tax receipt.

If donating by cash or cheque with a SSVP envelope, always include your name and email address.

Donations can be made through pre-authorized bank payments. (Contact SSVP for details.)

Donations to SSVP boost the Building Fund

In 2024, SSVP at St. Peter's purchased $83,000 in grocery store cards through the Building Fund.

This generated $4,150 for the Building Fund.

Another $28,000 in gift cards were donated to SSVP. About 90% of those were purchased through

the Building Fund. This generated another $1,260 for the Building Fund.

2024 Total: $5,410.

Did you know?

Volunteers with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul are called "Vincentians."

St. Peter's SSVP has 70+ Vincentians.
They contribute more than 3,500 volunteer hours a year!

Our Vincentians:

Collect & distribute children's clothing, including winter boots
Deliver healthy emergency food baskets and grocery store cards to families who need extra help
Organize a Christmas food & gift hamper program for 65 low-income families
- Many hamper recipients are referred to us by school principals or social agencies
Organize & maintain our pantry
Pick up food, some of which is donated by stores
Coordinate food & cash donations from parish schools.

Food Rescue

SSVP at St. Peter's collects & shares nutritious, high-quality, free food from food "rescue" programs operated

by Cobs in Crowfoot, Community Kitchens, and the Save On at Huntington Hills.

All of our hampers get bread. Every week, 5-8 families get a special delivery of our extra Cobs bread.
We also share bread with a school in NE Calgary and with Ranchlands Community Association.

We belong to Spinz Around, operated by Community Kitchens. That program provides fresh fruits andvegetables, frozen meats, yogurt, fancy cheese, and sundries like granola bars. All of this food is EXTRA (not "instead of") to our hampers.

Thanks to Save On Foods in Huntington, the families who get extra bread on Thursdays also receive some

other nutritious food, including milk, yogurt, eggs, and cheese.

Pantry Checklist

The food hampers delivered by SSVP at St. Peter's come in four different sizes.

Every hamper includes frozen vegetables, a whole chicken, and ground meat. We also pack fresh carrots,

coleslaw, apples, eggs, margarine, and an assortment of non-perishables.

Many of the hampers we deliver go to families with school-aged children. They receive recess, lunch and post-school snacks, like granola bars, fruit cups, cheese and cracker packs.

Vincentians with St. Peter's deliver more than 60 food hampers every month.

Other volunteers pack and deliver bread donated by a local bakery, purchase food with donated funds, gather donated food, or pickup and sort food donated by Catholic schools in our parish.

​

How can you help?

Volunteer: Call 403 288 9040 or email svdp@st-peters.ca

​

Donate non-perishable food items:

Ca​nned fish & meats Oatmeal (1kg) Peanut butter Granola bars Canned pasta

Canned fruit Canned beans

​​​

Donate cash or grocery store gift cards

Use the SSVP envelopes found in pew boxes or in the SSVP Donation Box located in the narthex.

E-transfer funds to treasurerssvp@outlook.com OR set up an auto-deposit. Forms are available

from the SSVP donation box located in the Narthex.​

Donations to SSVP boost the Building Fund

In 2024, SSVP at St. Peter's purchased $83,000 in grocery store cards through the Building Fund.

​This generated $4,150 for the Building Fund.

Another $28,000 in gift cards were donated to SSVP. About 90% of those were purchased through

the Building Fund. This generated another $1,260 for the Building Fund.

2024 Total: $5,410.

​Did you know?

Volunteers with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul are called "Vincentians."

St. Peter's SSVP has 70+ Vincentians.

They contribute more than 3,500 volunteer hours a year!

Our Vincentians:

Collect & distribute children's clothing, including winter boots

Deliver healthy emergency food baskets and grocery store cards to families who need extra help

Organize a Christmas food & gift hamper program for 65 low-income families

Many hamper recipients are referred to us by school principals or social agencies​

Organize & maintain our pantry

Pick up food, some of which is donated by stores

Coordinate food & cash donations from parish schools.

Food Rescue

SSVP at St. Peter's collects & shares nutritious, high-quality, free food from food "rescue" programs operated

by Cobs in Crowfoot, Community Kitchens, and the Save On at Huntington Hills.

​

We also share bread with a school in NE Calgary and with Ranchlands Community Association.

​​

We belong to Spinz Around, operated by Community Kitchens. That program provides fresh fruits andvegetables, frozen meats, yogurt, fancy cheese, and sundries like granola bars. All of this food is EXTRA (not "instead of") to our hampers. ​​​​​​​

​

Thanks to Save On Foods in Huntington, the families who get extra bread on Thursdays also receive some​

other nutritious food, including milk, yogurt, eggs, and cheese. ​

Pantry Checklist

​

The food hampers delivered by SSVP at St. Peter's come in four different sizes.

Every hamper includes frozen vegetables, a whole chicken, and ground meat. We also pack fresh carrots,

coleslaw, apples, eggs, margarine, and an assortment of non-perishables.

​

​Many of the hampers we deliver go to families with school-aged children. They receive recess, lunch and post-school snacks, like granola bars, fruit cups, cheese and cracker packs.

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We also include toiletries: toilet paper, hand soap, and toothpaste.

​Every St. Peter's hamper includes a grocery store card for $25 or $50.

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Grocery cards purchased through the Building Fund help SSVP AND help St. Peter's Parish pay off the

building loan.

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Canned fish & meats Oatmeal (1kg) Peanut butter Granola bars Canned pasta

from the SSVP donation box located in the Narthex.

This generated $4,150 for the Building Fund.

Did you know?

Many hamper recipients are referred to us by school principals or social agencies

We belong to Spinz Around, operated by Community Kitchens. That program provides fresh fruits andvegetables, frozen meats, yogurt, fancy cheese, and sundries like granola bars. All of this food is EXTRA (not "instead of") to our hampers.

Thanks to Save On Foods in Huntington, the families who get extra bread on Thursdays also receive some

other nutritious food, including milk, yogurt, eggs, and cheese.

Many of the hampers we deliver go to families with school-aged children. They receive recess, lunch and post-school snacks, like granola bars, fruit cups, cheese and cracker packs.

Every St. Peter's hamper includes a grocery store card for $25 or $50.