Host a Food and Fund Drive

Virtual Food Drive

Forget the hassle of a trip to the food bank for your next food drive… create a food drive without the heavy lifting and delivery to the Foodbank using our Virtual Food Drive, and maximize your donation time. For every ₦5000 donated, the Foodbank provides a family size pack of food and non-food items for a family of 7.

You can make a difference in your community by hosting a Virtual Food Drive for your friends, family members, or coworkers.

Who can set up a Virtual Food Drive?

Anyone can host a Virtual Food Drive. Corporate partners can create “customized” Virtual Food Drives that incorporate their logo and conduct competitions between departments in organizations.

Starting a Virtual Food Drive is easy!

  1. Register to create a Virtual Food Drive page.
  2. Personalize your page.
  3. Invite friends, family or coworkers to join!

If you have any questions, email us at contactus@lagosfoodbank.org

Traditional Food & Fund Drive

Individual donors could go the extra mile to create fundraising events around special occasions such as birthdays, weddings and anniversaries. This could mobilize friends, families and co-workers to donate food items, non-food items and clothing materials to a drop off point which would ease conveying of items to the foodbank.
Food drives could also be set up in work places – a box could be stationed at a particular location for a period of time where coworkers can drop off items and then the items could be conveyed to the foodbank afterwards.
All you have to do is let us know your preferred food drive dates, a fundraising goal, and if you would like to include our logo and/or image for a flyer.

Plan Your Food Drive:

What Kind of Items can be donated?

  1. Cereals – Rice, Maize/corn, Breakfast cereals, Garri
  2. Roots and Tubers – Yam, Potato.
  3. Legumes – Beans
  4. Dairy – Milk, Yoghurt drink
  5. Protein – Fish, Meat, Eggs
  6. Canned food – Sardines, etc
  7. Fruits and vegetables – (Properly packaged)
  8. Household Items – Toothpastes, Toothbrush, Detergent, Soaps, Toilet Paper
  9. Clothing materials – New/Gently used clothes

What supplies will you need for the Food Drive?

You are welcome to collect your donations in any type of box or container or sack for ease of transportation.

How will you transport your donations to the Food Bank?

We have trucks which we use for pickups for donated items from various locations to enable ease of delivery on the part of our donors. However, pick up options are subject to size of donation per time especially 1000kg and above. Otherwise, we encourage donations to made directly to our storehouse/warehouse.
Note: Pickup requests must be made at least one week prior to the desired pickup date for items more than 1000kg by contacting us via email at contactus@lagosfoodbank.org.

After Your Food Drive:

Where will you bring your donations?
The food bank office which is open on Mondays-Fridays, 9:am -6pm.

How will you know how many meals you were able to provide?
When you drop off your food and fund donations, we will have staff or volunteers on hand to help you unload, weigh the food and calculate any funds donated. We’re happy to take photos too!

We would also encourage you to tag us on your social media posts during your food drive as well as
send us pictures and videos of the moments!