Pennridge FISH

10/23/2026

We are excited to be at Hilltown Fall Fest this Sunday from 4-7pm!

🍂 MEET A FALL FEST VENDOR: PENNRIDGE FISH! 🍂

This Fall Fest, you can have fun while giving back to our community! We’re excited to welcome Pennridge FISH Food Pantry to Hilltown Fall Fest as they help support local families in need. 🧡

🎁 ENTER TO WIN A FALL FEST RAFFLE BASKET!

Stop by the Pennridge FISH table for your chance to win a festive basket!

🛒 How to enter:
❤️ Make a $5 monetary donation, OR
🥫 Bring a donation of non-perishable food items!

Pennridge FISH will also be collecting much-needed food pantry items to help local families, especially as we head into the holiday season.

Some of their most-needed items include:
🍂 Boxed mashed potatoes
🍂 Stuffing mix and gravy
🍂 Canned soups and cranberry sauce
🍂 Canned yams or sweet potatoes
🍂 Applesauce
🍂 Pancake mix and syrup
🍂 Hot cocoa mix and holiday baking supplies

Every donation makes a difference! Stop by their table, support a wonderful local organization, and you might even take home a Fall Fest basket! 🎃🎁

📅 Sunday, October 25
⏰ 4–7 PM
📍 Fairhill Road Park — 1823 Fairhill Road, Hilltown Township

10/20/2026

For those who will soon be asking, here is our holiday foods needs list. 🙂 This list will work for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
For Thanksgiving, we make these foods available on the shelves as a special choice for families planning their holiday meal, and for Christmas we pack a special bag of food that includes items to make a fun, holiday breakfast! If you would like to hold a holiday food drive for us and need information, please contact Paige at 215-257-7616 or [email protected]. Thank you!
Our holiday food Amazon wish list can be found here....https://a.co/0fT1x6gQ

10/19/2026

Food donations have been running low at FISH this season and as we are moving into the holidays we are asking for community support for the food pantry. We accommodated 375 household visits to the pantry in September alone. If you can hold a food drive for FISH at your school or business or in your neighborhood, let us know! Thank you, as always, to our incredibly generous Pennridge community!! Here's a little list of our most pressing current needs...

10/16/2026

Please come out and see us at the Hilltown Township Fall Festival on Sunday, October 25th! Bring a food item to donate to our food pantry and receive a chance at our Cozy Autumn raffle basket! Hope to see you there!

10/14/2026

Colder days are ahead!
The Perkasie Borough Police Department is teaming up with Pennridge FISH to collect hats, gloves, and scarves for local children ages 0-16!
Please drop off donations at the Perkasie Police Department or Pennridge FISH, or shop our Amazon Wish List here: https://a.co/0g2VG0bh
Thank you for supporting our Pennridge community and the Pennridge FISH holiday giving program! ❤

10/10/2026

Just a heads up that we will be giving our volunteers a little rest on Monday, October 12th, but will reopen the pantry on Wednesday, October 14th a 3:00pm. Please feel free to email us at [email protected] if you have an emergent need.

10/10/2026

I would like to update the community on the status of the folks we have been helping who were recently displaced in Perkasie. We assisted 7 people altogether with hotel stays; one person for only one week, and the other 6 people for 3 weeks straight. We are also assisting another person who wasn't able to stay in Quakertown as it was too far from their work. They are unhoused at the moment, but we are helping with food, etc.
(On top of these original 8 individuals, we have also been supporting a young couple who has been trying to attain housing for five months.)
I want to thank the Pennridge Community for stepping up to donate enough funds to cover nearly 3 weeks of hotel stays. This is an amazing testimony to the caring community in which we all reside.
Unfortunately, that funding has come to an end and the 6 individuals will now be effectively street homeless as of early next week.
The cost for keeping someone in the least expensive hotel with our charitable discount was $600 a week. If you do the math...that's $3,600 a week to help these 6 people stay sheltered.
I have communicated all the way up the county to the commissioner level and there are no hotel funds available.
The problem we are seeing in Pennridge may seem small, however, the uptick in people who are unhoused in our area is alarming. We should all be concerned. Rents are too high, boarding house rooms are disappearing, and folks who used to rent out spaces above garages or in in-law suites are turning them into Air BnB style rentals with prices that are out of reach. Even owning a vehicle (which can be a source of shelter) is becoming too expensive for many!
I am not sure what can be done, but something needs to be done!
Thank you to all who supported this effort. And thank you, too, to Steve Nathan, who has been strongly advocating for the unhoused in our community.
(Historic photo of our building on the left and the Trio House which was recently condemned. No information on who took this original photo.)

10/03/2026

Gregory Crystal, Officer/Assistant Branch Manager, Peoples Security Bank & Trust, Doylestown, presents a $500 check to Pennridge FISH board president, Lori Zimmerman, and vice president, Dawn Felix, in honor of National Hunger Action Month. We are especially grateful for their support as we see an increase in pantry visits this month!

10/03/2026

The latest edition of the Pennridge FISH newsletter is here! Enjoy!

09/28/2026

We are excited to be invited to have a table at the Shelby Labs' Senior Expo at the Silverdale Community Center on Friday, October 2nd from 10am to 1pm. Visit our table for a swag bag, chocolate, and other goodies and resources!

Join me for my upcoming Senior Expo on Friday, October 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pennridge Community Center, 146 E S Main St, Perkasie, PA 18944 (Silverdale Borough). Please contact my office at 215-489-2126 with any questions. Registration is not required.