Reading Food Pantry

10/12/2026

🍁We are closed today due to the holiday, but we will be open tomorrow night, 10/13, from 6:30-7:30 to neighbors with last names beginning K-Z. See you tomorrow! 🍂

10/09/2026

Want to pick up some delicious home-made bread and support our pantry neighbors at the same time? Gillian Taglieri, one of our volunteer cooks, is an amazing baker and is offering an option on her order form to donate a loaf to the pantry. Today we distributed the loaves people donated during the previous pop-up to some lucky pantry neighbors. Her next event is Monday, October 12, so scan the QR code and get something for yourself and order an extra loaf for our pantry neighbors!

10/09/2026

Check out the Bargain Box at the Church of the Good Shepard! They have a new entrance to their store on Woburn Street. Hours are Friday, 10am-3pm and Saturdays, 10am-1pm to shoppers and donors. Wednesdays from 9am-11am to donors only.

10/08/2026

Please read this important message from our Director, Simone Payment, that appeared in our September E-Newsletter. If you don’t receive our newsletter, but you would like to, please email us at [email protected]. Thank you!

09/30/2026

Once again, Stop & Shop has generously chosen the Reading Food Pantry as the beneficiary of their “Bloomin’ 4 Good Program”. The Pantry will receive $1 for every specially marked $11.99 “Bloomin’ 4 Good” bouquet sold during October 2026 at these Stop & Shop locations:

25 Walkers Brook Drive, Reading MA
265 Main Street, North Reading MA

Thank you for supporting the Reading Food Pantry!

09/30/2026

Thank you to our generous community! We are able to help so many people because of you! Here is our October Current Needs List.

For your convenience, please click on the link below and you will be directed to our Amazon Wishlist. Your donations will be delivered directly to our door:

https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/readingfood-pantry-august-2025-reading/2IAL6UP0JI3WF

If you prefer to donate monetarily, please click on this link and you will be directed to our website’s “Donate” page where you will find links to our Venmo and PayPal, as well as our address where you can send a check:

https://www.readingfoodpantry.org/donate-1

We have collection bins at both Market Basket and Stop & Shop, so if you are grocery shopping and would like to donate, here’s an easy way.

We are open every Wednesday from 4:30pm-6pm for Donation Drop-Off.  We are located at 6 Salem Street and our door is in the back parking lot of the Old South United Methodist Church. 

We would like to invite anyone in Reading who needs help with food, whether just for a few visits or for longer, to come visit us Monday nights from 6:30 to 7:30 or Friday mornings from 10:30 to 11:30 at 6 Salem Street. We are here to help!

Thank you!

09/30/2026

Here is our 🍂October🍁calendar. Please note that we are closed on Monday, October 12th, for the holiday, but we will be open on Tuesday, October 13th, from 6:30pm-7:30pm. We’ll see you soon!

09/25/2026

If you're looking for something to do on a rainy Saturday, come say hi to us at our table at the Olde Redding Faire!"

Rain or shine, the Olde Redding Faire goes on! Join us inside the First Congregational Church of Reading on Saturday, September 26th, 10am-2pm. Enter from Sanborn Street or the Town Hall Parking lot.

09/24/2026

The residents at Reading Woods had a yard sale and generously shared the proceeds with us! Longtime pantry volunteer, Pat Hanscome, brought the donation with her when she came to pack groceries for the pantry neighbors she delivers to on Wednesdays. We thank Pat and everyone at Reading Woods who organized, contributed, and donated to their event!