2025 Scouting for Food

Date:

Feb 8, 2025

 

Location:

Council-Wide
Utah/Idaho/Wyoming
Utah, UT 84403

 

This year's event will be on Saturday, February 8, 2025.  We hope that this will be a positive experience for your Scouts and one that is very helpful to your local food assistance organizations.

The information provided below is intended to give you the information needed to organize your local food drive and have a successful food drive.

Food Drive Service Participation Opportunities...

  1. February 8, 2025
    1. Smiths food collection
    2. Distribute and collect bags in neighborhoods

 

Unit Assignments...

Contact your District Executive for details about your unit's assignment.

2025 Partners...

  • Bank of Utah – will help publicize the food drive
  • Arctic Circle - will give bags to customers and help publicize the food drive
  • Red Hanger - will give bags to customers, receive donated food and help publicize the food drive
  • KUTV, Channel 2 – will help promote Scouting for Food Drive in conjunction with the Souper Bowl of Caring
  • Smith’s Food and Drug – will allow scouts to be in their store lobbies on February 8, 2025 asking shoppers to purchase items and donate them to the food drive and be a collection site for other donors
  • Young Automotive -
  • Utah National Guard – will provide transportation (where needed) for donated food items, taking them from the Smith’s Food and Drug Stores to the local food pantry/food banks
  • YESCO - donating billboard space
  • Local food pantries/food banks – will provide barrels/gaylords/totes for food collection sites (food pantries/food banks, Bank of Utah locations and other sites, will receive food donations at the pantry location, will pick up these donated food from collection sites as needed

Downloads...

File Name Description
2025 Event Flyer Download, print and share! Download