Volunteer

Lunch  is served seven days a week at the new home of the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen, 116 North First Street, Champaign.

We are unable to accommodate groups for volunteering.

Daily Bread Soup Kitchen is an entirely volunteer-run organization. The requirements for volunteers are:
• Be at least 16 years old
• Be able to stand for a minimum of 3 hours
• No prior or current guest of the Daily Bread may be a volunteer.
• Daily Bread cannot accept responsibility for validating volunteer hours for any
court-ordered or government-mandated service hours.

Volunteers are needed to assist with daily lunch service including:

  • setting up the serving line
  • preparing sack lunches
  • sorting and putting away food
  • doing dishes
  • trash removal
  • serving meal
  • scraping plates
  • cleaning up the dining and serving areas

 Lunch Crews
We serve a hot lunch to an average of 200 guests from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily.  A different volunteer crew works each day of the week. Our regular volunteers arrive between 8:00 am and 10:00 am, depending on the crew. To volunteer for our lunch service, please CLICK HERE. If you have questions, email dbskvolunteering@gmail.com.