Building a stronger Cobequid Region
Opportunities, events, and tools to connect, learn, and support our community.
Community Soup Program
Our soup program brings people together to cook, share, and support the community. Volunteers and participants help create nutritious soups for local freezers, building skills, connections, and a stronger, more food-secure Cobequid — one ladle at a time.
Soup Socials
Hands-on, community-focused cooking sessions where participants chop, stir, and simmer soups for local freezers — connecting people, skills, and good food.
Pop-Up Market
Our monthly Pop-Up Market, held the last Wednesday of each month at Knox United Church from 3:30–5:30, offers fresh fruits and vegetables, Stone Hearth Bakery bread, and dried goods. In partnership with the Mobile Food Market, we provide low-cost, dignified access to quality produce in a fun, welcoming space. Cash, debit, and credit accepted.
Give a little, get a ladle
The Cobequid Food Security Network often partners with the Pink Piano Cafe & Lounge in Lower Sackville. Stop by to learn how to cook up some tasty treats, which you’ll get to take home with you! Entry fee is a donation to Beacon House. Keep an eye on our Facebook for the next date!
Resources
Food Programs
Freedom Kitchen and Closet
Freedom Kitchen Serves free meals every Monday from 4:00-5:30pm from their location outside of Knox United Church.
567 Sackville Dr, Lower Sackville, NS
(902) 865-9216
freedomkitchencares@gmail.com
www.freedomkitchensackville.com
Bedford/Sackville Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels delivers fresh meals and friendly interactions to those in Sackville-Bedford and surrounding areas who are unable prepare nutritious meals for themselves.
Souls Harbour Rescue Mission
Souls Harbour Rescue Mission provides food and clothing, shelter, and life-changing programs to neighbours living with poverty, homelessness and other life challenges.
Square Roots Sackville
Square Roots connects perfectly healthy produce that doesn't meet the cosmetic standards of grocery stores to community members in need. This produce is diverted from being reploughed into fields or wasted in landfills and becomes part of healthy, nutritious meals for Canadians.
5907 Gorsebrook Ave, Halifax, NS
squareroots@enactussmu.ca
www.squarerootssmu.ca
Gateway Food Bank
Gateway Food Bank provides creative and dignified access to food for all.
10 Beaver Bank Rd, Lower Sackville, NS
(902) 865-3731
sackvillegatewayfoodbank@gmail.com
Beacon House Food Bank
Beacon House aids families and individuals across the Bedford/Sackville/Fall River/Hammonds Plains area confronting financial adversity due to job loss, reduced work opportunities, health setbacks, emotional or physical hurdles, and a spectrum of life's trials that hinder their capacity to secure fundamental necessities for themselves and their loved ones.
470 Cobequid Rd, Lower Sackville, NS
(902) 864-3025
www.beaconhousens.org
Memory Lane Family Place
Memory Lane Family Place provides preventative programs and services to children and families in our community that are strengths-based and promote healthy family development.
22 Memory Lane, Lower Sackville, NS
902-864-6363
www.memorylanefamilyplace.ca
Opportunity Place
Opportunity Place supports those looking to find and maintain meaningful employment. Through their programs and services, they are helping people achieve their career and educational goals.
108 Cobequid Rd. Suite 100 Lower Sackville, NS
902-864-7520
staff@opportunityplace.ca
www.opportunityplace.ca
The POSSE Project
The Peer Outreach Support Services & Education (POSSE) facilitates non-judgmental Harm Reduction and Human Rights training for youth and young adults ages 15-35 to provide peer support, crisis intervention, harm reduction street-level outreach, services and education while fostering communities of care.
10 King St, P.O. Box 141, Windsor, NS
902-799-0752
info@posseproject.ca
www.posseproject.ca
Food Navigators and Supporters
Cobequid Community Health Board
The Cobequid Community Health Board (CCHB) is an advisory Board of the Nova Scotia Health Authority. They consult with the Cobequid community on health needs.
Halifax Public Libraries-Sackville Branch
Halifax Public Libraries is a Canadian public library system, serving residents of Halifax in Nova Scotia. It is the largest public library system in Nova Scotia.
636 Sackville Drive, Lower Sackville, NS
www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/locations/sackville-public-library/
Sackville Heights Community Center
Once an elementary school, the Sackville Heights Community Centre, offers a gathering space to those in the Sackville area of all ages.
45 Connolly Road, Sackville, NS
902-869-4764
fm@myshcc.com
www.myshcc.com
HRCE-Schools Plus
SchoolsPlus is a confidential, free service available in every school in Nova Scotia. Our goal is to build positive relationships between families, schools, and communities.
45 Connolly Road, Sackville, NS
902-464-2000 ext. 2331
schoolsplus@hrce.ca
www.hrce.ca/students/student-services/schoolsplus
IWK Health Center
IWK Health is dedicated to providing quality care to women, children, youth, and families in the Maritime provinces and beyond.
5850/5980 University Avenue, Halifax, NS
902-470-8888
www.iwkhealth.ca
Nova Scotia Health
Nova Scotia Health provides health services to Nova Scotians and some specialized services to Maritimers and Atlantic Canadians. They operate hospitals, health centres and community-based programs across the province.
90 Lovett Lake Court, Suite 201, Halifax, NS
1-844-491-5890
www.nshealth.ca
Department of Opportunities and Social Development
The Department of Opportunities and Social Development helps people live more independent and healthier lives by providing a range of social services. They work together with organizations across the province to administer social programs, including employment support and skills training, income assistance, affordable housing and youth and family supports.
Barrington Tower, 5th Floor, 1894 Barrington Street, Halifax,NS
1-877-424-1177
https://www.novascotia.ca/government/opportunities-and-social-development
