“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other. ”
We envision...
...a Weymouth in which every family is able to sit down to dinner together at night no matter their financial struggles, in which all our elders have enough food to stay active as long as they can, and where we've woven together the kind of caring community that ensures nobody is forgotten in their time of need.
Who we are
Our mission is to end hunger in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
The Weymouth Food Pantry is an independent 501(c)(3) charity. The Pantry provides free groceries to approximately 3,610 people in Weymouth at any given time, between 60 and 115 families per service day, 450 and 600 families each month, and distributes about 350,000 pounds of food per year and growing. In a community where 1 in 10 residents struggles to afford food, the Weymouth Food Pantry offers food assistance and education through a variety of avenues: at its pop-up pantries, through grocery delivery to our home-bound elders and people with disabilities, at the farmers market, in local schools, and through teaching basic home gardening skills.
Our history
The Weymouth Food Pantry was founded in 1987 thanks to a small group of concerned citizens. This group then formed The Weymouth Council for the Hungry, which in turn created the Weymouth Food Pantry. The pantry opened its doors in the old school house at the Church of Immaculate Conception on Broad Street with a little food on its shelves and a lot of love in its heart. Since then, and thanks to a generous community, it has grown to serve many, many more Weymouth households in need of supplemental or emergency food.
