2026 Food Drive

Monday, November 23, 2025 — Sunday, December 13, 2025

Our 10th Annual Food Drive

The 2026 holiday season marks the 10th year that The Moore Group has coordinated a food drive to support William Whyte School, which is a K-8 school with approximately 250 students located in the William Whyte neighbourhood at Powers St and Manitoba Ave.

We created this Food Drive in 2017, after learning that the school’s hot breakfast program was already running out of supplies by mid-November. We decided to take this school under our wing, and over the years we have delivered truckloads of food to the school during the last week of school.

Initially, our goal was to supplement the in-school breakfast program with breakfast items like oatmeal & cereal, but thankfully the program now has steady funding. Since 2024, our focus has switched to gathering non-perishable food items, which volunteers at the school assemble into hampers to send home with kids that need extra support to get through the holiday break.

The Wish List

We are collecting non-perishable foods like:

Pantry staples like cereal, oatmeal, pasta and rice
Non-perishable proteins, like canned tuna, canned beans, powdered milk and peanut butter
Sources of vitamins, like juice, canned soup, dried fruit

But everything helps.

Why William Whyte School?

We learned about the need for donations for this breakfast program back in 2017, in an article in the Free Press sharing that the school’s need for food had outstripped its funding by the middle of November. Real estate has seasonal cycles, and we have more spare time during the fall and winter, so we decided to put our resources to work helping these kids. We believe that caring for one another is part of our shared responsibility and we are grateful to have a seasonal business that lets us take on this huge task year over year.

William Whyte School now receives adequate funding for the in-school nutrition program from the provincial Universal School Nutrition Program. Additional donations, like the food items donated through our Food Drive, are sent home with the families that need it most. Our donations are very much appreciated by the William Whyte School community.

At The Moore Group, we acknowledge that we operate on Treaty 1 Territory and the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline and Nehethowuk Nations, and on the homeland of the Red River Metis. We recognize the unique relationship between communities and food, and in the spirit of generosity and reciprocity, this food drive is one way we can come together to support one another.

How does the nutrition program work?

William Whyte School provides their kids with a hot breakfast every school day, but they also provide snacks, lunches, and hampers to families with a combination of purchased food and food they receive from Manitoba Harvest.

When a student isn’t bringing a lunch to school or returning to school after going home for lunch but not having eaten, the school will provide a lunch.

Many kids rely heavily on the food they eat at school so instead of being a restful celebration, winter break can be a particular challenge for many of these kids. Our donations are primarily used to create large hampers to send home with the kids that will need extra support over the winter break, while the school is closed.

How does the food drive work?

Every year we partner with local businesses across Winnipeg who volunteer to host a donation spot. Our goal is to make it easy for Winnipeggers to find a drop-off spot nearby their home or work. We are so grateful to the businesses that partner with us to make that happen.

Once the spots are organized and the bins are dropped off, our job at The Moore Group is to do our best to spread the word and encourage donations! You can see some examples of coverage in the Winnipeg Free Press and CBC Radio. In 2024 we were so honoured to receive a letter from the mayor appreciating our efforts!

At the conclusion of the donation period, we gather all the donations from the drop-off spots, and then our REALTORS® meet to drive the donations down to the school. It usually takes about 5 or 6 vehicles to deliver everything.

How can I help?

Please drop off your non-perishable food donations to any of the drop-off spots listed below, or bring it to any of our open houses.

Cash donations are also greatly appreciated, with a tax receipt provided by the Children’s Heritage Fund. Please make a cheque out to Children’s Heritage Foundation and in the memo of the cheque note that it is for William Whyte Community School, and mail to:

The Winnipeg School Division
Admin #1 Building, 1577 Wall Street East
Winnipeg, MB R3E 2S5

Collection Locations

Donations can be made at any of the following locations from November 23rd to December 13th, 2026.

Drop-off locations will be updated soon!

Donations are also accepted at all of our Open Houses from November 23rd to December 13th, 2026.

Open Houses are posted on instagram at @themooregroup each Friday!