Heaven’s Kitchen Volunteer Opportunities

Thank you for considering the opportunities to volunteer for Heaven’s Kitchen. During the upcoming summer months, we expect to distribute several thousand meals a week to our friends and neighbors in the Greater Derry area so we can use your time and talents.

Below is a list of key volunteer roles along with a brief description of the tasks for each and the time needed to help with your decision-making process. 

• Drive food truck!
  1. Operate the food truck or our cargo truck for various tasks. I need to submit paperwork to the Diocese to become approved to drive Parish vehicle. 
  2. Food truck is currently on the road from 1:00-5:30 Tuesday and Thursday
• Distribute meals from the food truck!
  1. Either ride along on food truck or drive your own car and meet at our distribution sites to help portion out and distribute meals. The current schedule for this is Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00-5:30
• Distribute prepacked meals to sites.
  1. This task requires use of your vehicle, and it needs to be able to carry large quantities of meals (and SUV or wagon of some kind). 
  2. Currently these meals are delivered on Tuesday and Thursday between 11:00-12:30 but there is some flexibility.
• Help with food prep and cooking of meals.
  1. Currently, this work is being done at the Parish Kitchen on Monday and Wednesday mornings. These days/times will expand with our summer program. 
  2. Anytime between 8:00-12:00 is currently on Monday and Wednesday
• Help with packaging prepacked meals.
  1. Currently we pack about two hundred meals, twice a week on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 3:00-4:30.
  2. Pack the number of meals required each day and help clean up.

• Meet food truck at St Anne at the end of days run to help unload and do dishes.
  1. Need two people to meet the food truck on it is return at 5:30 Tuesday and Thursday. Usually about an hour to an hour and a half.
  2. Task is to help unload truck, dispose of leftovers and trash, wash pots and pans, put away and clean up kitchen.

• Help schedule/recruit volunteers.
  1. This could be a new volunteer opportunity but looking for someone who might keep track of our weekly volunteer needs and that volunteers would contact to fill positions/schedule.
  2. Very flexible hours.
• Help warm up food and stock food truck on delivery days.
  1. Work on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9:00 to about noon helping to heat up food for that day run and to help load the food truck.
• Preparing (labeling) food containers
  1. Very flexible schedule though needs to be done before 3:00 on Monday’s and Wednesday’s.
  2. Place labels and date stickers on top of the meal kit based on the number of meals we are preparing on any given day. 
• Keeping inventory of regular used items, i.e., milk, food containers etc.
  1. Another flexible schedule opportunity.
  2. Looking for someone who can help us manage and track our inventory and create product orders on a weekly basis.

•  Help with distributing food from mobile food pantry (cargo truck)
  1. We use our Cargo Truck to offer a monthly mobile food pantry. This program operates the first Thursday of each month from about 1:30-5:30 with three stops.
  2. At each stop we serve on average about thirty people who will come to the rear of the truck and request groceries based on what we have available. 
  3. This task would be helping to pass out food and or drive the Cargo Truck to each location and back to St Anne.

If interested, please reach out to Jim Carey

• [email protected]
• 603-339-3731

Saint Anne Parish Charitable Outreach attempts to provide assistance to individuals and families that are going through difficult times. There are four principal legs of this ministry:
the St Anne Food Pantry, St Anne Financial Assistance, Heaven's Kitchen, and the Victory Garden.

All four branches of St Anne Parish Charitable Outreach are aimed at providing emergency, short-term assistance, to members of the local area.  A sample of the assistance, depending on the circumstances, may include:

Food Pantry: food, canned products, fresh produce, frozen meats, and toiletries and holiday baskets;
Financial Assistance: emergency support for utilities, oil, gas, propane, prescriptions
Heaven's Kitchen: warm and/or cold meals;
Victory Garden: an opportunity to grow fresh vegetable;

If you, or if you know someone who is in need of this type of emergency, short term assistance, please contact Jim Carey at 603-339-3731 or send an email to: [email protected]

If you would like to support the Charitable Outreach services offered either through the Food Pantry, Heaven's Kitchen, Victory Garden or Financial Assistance by way of a charitable donation, you may do an online gift by click this link, deliver a cash donation directly to the parish offices, or send a check made payable to "Saint Anne Charitable Outreach". 

Donations can be mailed to:
Saint Anne's Parish, 26 Emerson Avenue, P.O. Box 339, Hampstead NH 03841.

Online Donations can be given at:
Saint Anne Parish Online Giving