2025 Great Food Sort Challenge

Great Food Sort Challenge is an annual fundraising and sorting event hosted by The Food Bank. The 2025 event is taking place January 23, 24, and 27. Over these three days, 30 teams compete against each other to sort the most amount of non-perishable food. This event is a great team-building opportunity that also helps us organize the influx of donations that we get over the holidays.

Registration is now full. Support your favourite participating team by donating to their fundraising page.

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2025 Group Schedule

Date	Sort Time	Group 1	Group 2
Thursday, January 23	10:00 AM	Serenia Life	BMO
	11:45 AM	Aire One KW	Region of Waterloo
	1:30 PM	Challenger	Serenia Life
	4:00 PM	Allianz	Associated Engineering
	5:45 PM	Henry Walser Funeral Home	Conestoga College

Friday, January 24	10:00 AM	CJ Brubacher	Unifor Local 1106
	11:45 AM	Travers Law	Cornerstone
	1:30 PM	Steed & Evans	Steed & Evans
	4:00 PM	Royal LePage Wolle Realty	Century 21 Heritage House Ltd
	5:45 PM	The Snethillee Family Packers	MTE Consultants

Monday, January 27	10:00 AM	Little Mushroom Catering	BDO
	11:45 AM	OpenText	OpenText
	1:30 PM	Conestoga Meats	WRPS
	4:00 PM	Clean & Tidy	TN Real Estate Group
	5:45 PM	MNP	MNP

Thank you to our 2025 sponsors!

Presenting sponsor

Warm Up sponsor

Cool Down sponsor

Champion sponsors

Fuel sponsor

A look back at the 2024 Great Food Sort Challenge!

This year’s Great Food Sort Challenge raised an incredible 136,787 meals for people struggling to afford to put food on the table in Waterloo region.

The eighth annual event took place January 25, 26, and 29 and brought together 28 teams for some friendly competition to see who could sort the most food and raise the most meals in support of The Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Over the three days, 268 people sorted through 68,655 pounds of non-perishable food (166 watermelon bins), and together, the teams, representing 23 local businesses, raised $18,075.30. Since 2014, the event has raised more than 775,000 meals for people in need in Waterloo region.

Congratulations to our 2024 winners:

Most food sorted: MTE Consultants – Fruits (3,267 pounds)
Most stylish food sorters: Conestoga Meats – Notorious P.I.G.s
Most spirited food sorters: Unifor Local 1106 – Super Solidarity
Most meals raised (combination of funds raised/food sorted): Blendtek – Boxers 1 (12,465 meals)
Most funds raised (individual): Steve Zinger ($5,110.50)

For most meals raised, Blendtek – Boxers 1 receives a team lunch (for 10) donated by Chick-fil-A Catering! Plus, each person receives a bottle of Chili Oil donated by Crafty Ramen.

For raising the most funds through their fundraising page, Steve Zinger receives Crafty Ramen’s new line of ‘Heat & Eat’ Ramen donated by the restaurant’s Kitchener location.