The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries provides food and fellowship to those in need.  We serve the Connecticut shoreline towns of Essex, Chester, Clinton, Madison, Old Saybrook, East Lyme, Lyme, Old Lyme, Killingworth, Westbrook and Deep River.

We provide approximately 900,000 meals worth of food each year.

• Home-style meals are served each day at one of our meal sites.
• Groceries are available each week at one of our five food pantries.
• Frozen, microwaveable meals are prepared by our Heat-n-Eat kitchens.

We are an interfaith ministry, with all locations hosted by faith communities.

Over 800 volunteers prepare meals and drive trucks.

Our work is sustained entirely by donors.

Learn more about how we can help you.

Learn more about how you can get involved.

Tuesday, June 11 - Volunteer Orientation meeting - Grace Episcopal Church, 336 Main Street, Old Saybrook - 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 27 - Connecticut Food Bank mobile truck - location to be determined - 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

July:
Tuesday, July 9 - Volunteer Orientation meeting - Grace Episcopal Church, 336 Main Street, Old Saybrook - 6:30 p.m.

Note:  Please click on "Read More" for information on closings for holidays and special events. 

The amazing volunteers at the Common Good Garden in Old Saybrook already have seeds and seedlings in the ground, showing their determination to have fresh vegetables to the 5 SSKP pantries as soon as possible. The winter storms took their toll, particularly at the blueberry enclosure where snow and ice caved in the bird netting. But that hasn't stopped the bushes from budding... and rhubarb plants are emerging too, so there will be some fruit again this year, we hope.

Volunteers are welcome on Tuesday mornings from 9 to 11 and Saturday mornings from 8 to 10. An email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it will put you on the list for regular emails regarding work planned for the coming week. This is a wonderful learning community, by the way, now in its 11^th year of growing fresh food for those in need along the Shoreline.