Purolator’s Fill a Red Bag School Challenge

Join the fight to end hunger

By participating in Purolator’s Fill a Red Bag School Challenge, you can help provide emergency food access to families in your community.

Daily Bread Food Bank would like to invite you to join Purolator’s Fill a Red Bag School Challenge! The school that collects the most food by April 17, 2025 (proportional to its student population) will win an afternoon with an ice cream truck parked at their school.* Here’s how the Challenge works:

1. Register your school

Register your school food drive below. Registrants running the drive can be a school parent, teacher, administrator or student, as long as the affiliated school is consenting. Purolator Red Bags and/or Daily Bread yellow bins can be delivered to your school for food collection if requested in your registration form by March 21, 2025. If registering after this date, materials will be available for pickup only from Daily Bread’s head office.

2. Download resources

Download resources to support your drive, including a toolkit with Challenge guidelines and ideas on how to engage your community, a flyer to promote your drive and Daily Bread’s list of most needed items.

3. Run your drive

Collect non-perishable food donations at your school between March 31 – April 17.

4. Arrange to get donations to Daily Bread

Complete the pickup request form below by April 11, 2025, to have your donations collected from April 22-24. Your drive can still be underway at the time of requesting a pickup. You can also invite Parent Council volunteers or members of your school community to deliver your donations to Daily Bread. All food donations being dropped off to Daily Bread directly must be received by 3:00 pm EST on April 17, 2025, to qualify.

5. Stay tuned to see if your school won!

The winning school will be announced by Daily Bread and Purolator on Monday, April 28, 2025.

REQUEST A PICKUP

Thank you for joining the fight to end hunger and helping to provide emergency food access to families in your community.

*The ice cream truck prize for the winning school includes having the truck parked at your school for a two-hour period, either at lunch or in the afternoon. This prize is not redeemable for cash and it must take place before the end of the 2024-25 school year.

Request a pickup

Please submit a pickup request form by April 11, 2025, as part of this challenge. Your collection can still be underway at the time of requesting a pickup; this deadline ensures that Daily Bread and Purolator can collect between April 22-24, 2025.

Your Last Name *

Your First Name *

School Name *

Contact Email *

Contact Phone *

Pick-Up Information

Address of Pick-Up Location

Address Line 1 *

Address Line 2

City *

Postal Code *

Province *

Nearest Major Intersection *

Contact Name at Pick-Up Location

Contact First Name *

Contact Last Name *

Contact Phone Number at Pick-Up Location *

Please provide special parking instructions for a 26’ truck (street parking, loading dock information, etc.) *

Please provide instructions to help the driver access your building (buzzer code, gate access, calling security, etc) *

Are there stairs in your building? *

Requested Pick-Up Date (DD/MM/YYYY) *

Please select a date between April 22-24, 2025.

Estimated amount of food (ie. size and number of bags or boxes): *

Please upload a clear photo (png. or jpg.) of the food collected thus far. *

Click or drag files to this area to upload. You can upload up to 3 files.

Your drive can still be underway at the time of requesting a pickup. This date allows us to ensure the food can be collected between April 22-24, 2025.