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Just like your local grocery store, The Storehouse food pantry offers customer-choice shopping.  We are organized into 5 departments - meat, produce, deli, dry goods and bakery.  We also have a Check-In station where you are greeted when you sign-in, and Check-Out stations where we bag your groceries and carry them out and load them into your car.  We strive to provide the best customer service possible.

Since opening in 2020, we have provided home delivery service to the elderly and people with disabilities in Charles City.  We currently maintain 9 routes, with volunteers delivering shelf stable groceries and frozen meats twice a month. 

We have partnered with Central Virginia Health Clinic since 2020 to provide a mini-pantry that is restocked twice each week.  CHVS works with their patients to teach healthy-choice shopping.  The Storehouse also partners with Samaria Baptist Church and Mr. Pleasant Baptist Church to help stock a Blessing Box, providing shelf stable foods that are available to the community 24/7.  Blessing Boxes offer a great way to provide emergency food assistance.

Dedicated volunteers work by appointment to help feed clients who need food outside of operating hours.

Every Tuesday starting at 9:30, volunteers arrive to go through each piece of donated food items we received.  Volunteers check ‘use by’ dates for compliance with USDA standards for food pantry distribution, discarding items that do not meet the standards.  In addition, volunteers review and sort all of the produce, ensuring that only the freshest of donations will be made available to our customers.

While ‘processing’ of all of the donated items is underway, other volunteers stock shelves of all the foods purchased from Feed More as well as with other dry goods donated through our vendor partnerships.

We are continuously seeking ways to raise funds to support our many services.  Some of our fundraisers include Brunswick stew sale, fish fry and yard sales.  These efforts take a lot of planning and coordination, but we always have a good time.  All proceeds are tax deductible and go directly to fund our programs.

Every Friday starting around 9:30, volunteers come together to sort and organize all of the many non-food donations we receive each week.  We pass along these clothing and households items to our pantry customers each week.

Our wonderful team of van drivers work a minimum of 4 days a week picking up donations from our Retail Partners and other vendors.  They travel to Henrico, Prince George, Chester, Williamsburg and New Kent to keep our food supplies full.

Not all food that we receive at the pantry is suitable for human consumption.  In addition, we often have an abundance of bakery items left over from our pantry day that will not be suitable to save for the next upcoming pantry.  Since these items are not suitable to feed people, we pass them along to our partner farmers to feed their livestock.  This is a great way to ensure as little as possible goes to waste.

The food pantry has a lot of plastic waste; all of the pallets of food we purchase from Feed More are wrapped in plastic for safe shipping.  We also have torn and discarded plastic bags.  We recycle all of this plastic through the NexTrex, and in return get lovely park benches.

Each year, The Storehouse works with the community to make approximately 250 Christmas Bags for all of its customers.  This fun project started in 2020 and has grown significantly since then.  Several community groups work throughout the year collecting and making hand-sewn gifts for the bags.  It’s a wonderful way to appreciate our customers.

Jackie retired in 2017 with more than 35 years of public service, helping communities complete much needed local projects in RVA and the Raleigh, NC areas.  On April 1, 2020, Jackie worked with other like-minded volunteers to create The Storehouse, a non-profit community food pantry in Charles City County, VA.  Working with others, Jackie has grown The Storehouse to include partnerships with the local non-profits to include the health clinic, the public school system and several farms.  Jackie is extremely grateful to the many partnerships and giving hearts that has made The Storehouse thrive; without them none of this would be possible.  Jackie, a.k.a. Garden Girl loves spending time in the garden with the birds and a good book.