About Neighbour to Neighbour Centre

At Neighbour to Neighbour Centre, we understand and care about the many challenges that families face in our community today and have been working to help Hamiltonians in need for almost 40 years. From our emergency food bank to educational and family supports to our Community Food Centre, Neighbour to Neighbour uses preventative measures and strategies to alleviate the burden of poverty in Hamilton.

We feed, educate, counsel, refer, and support. We have a small team of staff and an amazing group of volunteers providing front-line service.

We do this by offering programs and services that our community has identified as critical to them, such as:

• literacy support to children in grades 1-4 and math support to children in grades 5-8.  Recognizing that literacy and numeracy are both fundamental skills essential to student’s success.
• N2N’s Hamilton Community Food Centre is a welcoming and safe community space offering food and tool building programs to all ages and stages. Programs like garden club, youth kitchen and community meals bring everyone together to grow, cook, share, and advocate for good food.
• N2N offers emergency food to a growing 1700 families every month through in person shopping and home delivery to seniors and people with mobility challenges.
• The Hamilton Community Garden Network (HCGN) program is run by N2N to sustain and expand the garden community in Hamilton and support Hamiltonians to use gardens to build the community, enhance the environment and promote wellness.
• N2N Family Services works in collaboration with community partners to offer wrap around supports such as settlement services, utility subsidy programs, family and financial counselling, legal services, housing settlement, to name just a few.  Our Community Counsellors speak in 8 different languages.