Loaves & Fishes News and Updates

Volunteer Spotlight – Nancy
May 9, 2025Nancy has been a volunteer at Loaves & Fishes for 28 years! She has been the organizer of our Postal Worker Food Drive for most of that time, which has

No Sun? No Problem! Our Best 5K Ever!
May 9, 2025Nearly 100 walkers and runners showed up last Sunday to support the Pantry and had a blast, sun or no sun! Thanks to our amazing participants and generous sponsors, we

Thank You!
May 9, 2025Mike Coughan of Marquis & Coughlan Insurance Agency in Methuen worked with The Andover Companies Charitable Foundation to provide the Pantry with a grant to help us keep our shelves

Thank you, Alltown Fresh!
May 9, 2025The kind folks at Alltown Fresh in Ayer raised money for Loaves & Fishes during the holidays. They were very excited to present Patty with the proceeds!

Special Visit
May 9, 2025State Senator John Cronin and his team stopped by the Pantry for a tour last week. They were excited to learn about all the ways Loaves & Fishes is working

We Love Our Volunteers!
May 9, 2025April was Volunteer Appreciation Month, but we are beyond grateful to our volunteers every month of the year! We couldn’t do it without you! We celebrated with lunch, chair

Thank you, Holy Trinity Parish!
May 1, 2025A special thank you to Holy Trinity Parish in Harvard, not only for bringing in over 1230 pounds of groceries from their food drive, but also for making, donating, and

Come Visit Us – Last Thursday of the Month
April 1, 2025To make things more convenient for our clients, we’ve introduced a morning open pantry session on the last Thursday of each month. Skip the long Wednesday lines and come grab

Warming Our Heads And Our Hearts
April 1, 2025A client made these colorful hats knowing that our volunteers are out in all kinds of weather, loading groceries into cars at open pantries. She always has yarn with her

New Recipe Bags
April 1, 2025In addition to the usual groceries received by our clients, we’re now giving out Recipe Bags in the first week of the month! In March, the bags contained the recipe