The Holidays at the GFB!
Join us this December for the 2025 Holiday Season. We have a busy month jam-packed with events, fundraisers, prizes, and festivities!
Did you know?
The Golden Food Bank serves over 200 households a month. We’ve distributed over 2,000 hampers in 2025 to more than 700 households. In a town of 4,000, that’s a considerable number of our neighbours that are relying on us.
The Golden Food Bank is a nonprofit charity that relies on community support to run its programs. We do not receive on-going or core government funding, meaning we rely on your donations to keep the doors open, the lights on, and our community fed.
Want to get involved this December? Here’s what we’ve got going on!
CPKC Holiday Train
Join us at the CP Parking Lot (opposite 7-11) on Tuesday, December 16th at 8:30pm to welcome in the HOLIDAY TRAIN!
Live music featuring the Barenaked Ladies. We have cookies, we have hot chocolate, we even have Santa!
Cookies and hot chocolate are available by donation to the Golden Food Bank, so please bring some cash!
Always wanted to ride the Holiday Train? Now’s your chance!
Donate to our Virtual Food Drive for a chance to win tickets to ride!
The Golden Food Bank has two tickets to give away, and we want to share them. The lucky winner will receive two tickets to ride from Radium to Golden!
Every $5 donation gets you an entry into the draw.
Winner picked December 15th. (Winner is responsible for transport to Radium.)
Entry by donation here: https://bcvfd.foodbank.bc.ca/fundraiser/goldentrain
Holiday Dinner 50/50
This year, the Golden Food Bank aims to provide Christmas Dinner for 100 local households in need. Neighbours who otherwise would be going without.
This is no small feat, and we need your help! We’re running a 50/50 Raffle to raise funds for the Christmas Dinner Kits. Winner announced Christmas Day!
The raffle goes live on December 8th. Purchase your tickets here: https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/goldenfoodbank
Recipe of the Week Meal Kits Gift Cards now available at the GFB
Not sure what to buy your kid’s teacher? That colleague you pulled in Secret Santa? Great Aunt Nora? We have the answer!
Gift one of our hugely popular Recipe of the Week Meal Kits. These super-affordable, Hello-Fresh-style meal kits are available to the whole community!
Not only is it a thoughtful (and delicious) gift, but it’s also a gift that gives twice:
One $25 gift card gives the recipient a meal and provides a meal kit to a local family in need.
Visit us at GFB to pick up your gift cards.
Kicking Horse Opening Day Gondola
Want to be the first to reach the mountain top and shred 4,000 vertical feet?
KHMR has announced their annual Opening Day Gondola Raffle, and all funds raised will be donated to the Golden Food Bank.
The winner gets to:
Pick 5 buddies to share the first gondola
Skip the lift lines for the rest of the day
Enjoy lunch at the award-winning Eagle’s Eye Restaurant
Best way to kick off the season!
Every $5 donation gets you an entry.
Entry available Nov 21 – Dec 4 (10am).
Draw on Dec 4 at 11am; winner contacted by email.
Enter here: https://bcvfd.foodbank.bc.ca/fundraiser/khmr2025
Virtual Food Drive
Every year, we run a Virtual Food Drive (VFD). You can run one too!
We use VFDs to raise funds to purchase food instead of relying on physical donations. Why? Because GFB buys in bulk through partners, and we receive discounts from certain retailers and wholesalers. This means our dollar has increased buying-power!
Physical food donations also require a lot of staff and volunteer capacity to sort through.
If you’d like to run a Food Drive for us, consider a Virtual Food Drive instead. Staff support is available to help set up your page, create digital media, and produce QR codes to ensure your VFD’s success.
You can visit our Virtual Food Drive here: https://bcvfd.foodbank.bc.ca/team/gfbs
Visit our Fundraising & Food Drive Guide at this link: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613e5dc6bf1d446167a1ea59/t/69214c41bb6e332d068de117/1763789889700/Copy+of+2025+GFB+Holiday+Fundraising+Guide+%282%29.pdf
Massages for Meals!
Unravel Therapeutics are running a 12 Days of Giving campaign, with the chance to win massage therapy! Donate to enter here:
Element Therapeutics are offering a chance to win one of two 60 minute massages. Draws will happen on the 24th and 31st of December. You can enter by visiting page here: https://bcvfd.foodbank.bc.ca/participant/360/436/
The Golden Collective are offering a chance to win a 90 minute massage and a ten-class pass! Donate to enter here:
Golden-Field RCMP Annual Pack-A-Cruiser Event
Our local detachment will be in the Save-On-Foods parking lot on Friday, December 12th from 6–8pm. Your challenge? PACK the cruiser!
Cash and gift-card donations are accepted too.
If you would like to support the RCMP’s fundraising efforts for the GFB, you can visit their food drive here: https://bcvfd.foodbank.bc.ca/team/goldenrcmp
New team members!
You may have heard: we said adieu to some of our beloved staff members this year, and welcomed some new team players into the fold.
Monica De stepped into the role of Executive Director on September 2. She’s no stranger to the organization, having served two consecutive terms on our board. Monica brings extensive experience in both the public and nonprofit sectors, most recently as the program coordinator for the Rocky Mountain International Student Program (SD6) and as literacy coordinator with the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy.
Joining her is Tamara Holmes, our new Program Manager, who brings a background rich in community programming, food service, and education. Tamara previously coordinated Local Food Matters’ Weathered Wisdom Project and has been a familiar face at community fundraisers such as Farm-to-Table dinners and United Way events.
Missing our Harvest Dinner?
Save the date for May 8, 2026 and keep your eyes peeled for more info about our Spring Gala!
