Get involved
How you can help
There are four ways to be useful to The Neighbour’s Table. Start with the one that fits.
Pick one, and do it.
The work needs three things: students who will hold a named role, farms willing to answer one question, and food banks that collect fresh produce with their own vehicles. Here is where you fit.
The Neighbour’s Table is a student-run nonprofit. Each chapter is a club of its own school, run by its students under a Teacher Advisor. Our work sits under UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, and everything on this page serves it.
Start a chapter
If you are a student and your school has no chapter, start one. Get the principal’s written approval and a Teacher Advisor first. A chapter aims for 8 to 12 students and may start with 4.
Start a chapter
Take a named role
A chapter has six: Chapter Lead, Deputy Lead, Outreach Editor, List Builder, Follow-up Clerk and Records and Hours Clerk.
Join a chapter
If you run a farm
If you have produce that will not sell, write to us. A chapter will give you the contact of an organization that collects it, free, and you arrange the date with it directly.
For farms
If you run a food bank
Tell us in writing which area you can collect from and what volume of fresh produce you can take. Once you confirm, chapters in that area can introduce farms to you.
For food banks
What the work actually needs
Students, a Teacher Advisor, farms and food banks. Time in a room at lunch, once a week.
