WEYMOUTH, ROCKLAND, MA ISSUED OCTOBER 17, 2024… The Weymouth Food Pantry will hold its annual Halloween Scavenger Hunt on Saturday, October 26th from 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. at Tufts Library, 46 Broad Street in Weymouth. The organization’s principal fundraising event helps to support its mission to end hunger in Weymouth.
A free Kids Hunt will kick-off the event; children aged 8 and under are welcome and Halloween costumes are encouraged but not required. In addition to a scavenger hunt around the library, young ones will also enjoy Halloween crafts, face painting, and prizes from the treasure chest.
Teams of two or four people aged 10 and older can sign up for the hunt at a cost of $20 per person. To register please visit https://secure.qgiv.com/event/wwsh2024/
As in years past, roughly 150 spooky challenges around the town of Weymouth will guide teams through ghostly stories and tales of folklore. Teams will race the clock to seek out items, places, and sponsor locations while scoring points. An interactive phone-based hunt app can be downloaded on an Apple or Android device and allows teams to track their hunting efforts through a live leaderboard.
Prizes for highest point totals, most funds raised, best team costumes, and funniest submitted video will be awarded. The Weymouth Food Pantry is counting on local and surrounding businesses and organizations to support the fun, engaging community event. For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please visit https://secure.qgiv.com/event/wwsh2024/store/ or email Jen O’Brien @jennifer@weymouthfoodpantry.org.
“The Halloween Scavenger Hunt is a great opportunity for families, friends, or teammates to spend an afternoon together enjoying some spooky fun. I promise you will learn things about our town you never knew, while helping a worthy cause,” said Pamela Denholm, executive director of the Weymouth Food Pantry. “It’s a ton of fun!”
Photos from last year’s Wicked Weymouth Scavenger Hunt.
About the Weymouth Food Pantry
The Weymouth Food Pantry is an independent 501(c)(3) charity providing free groceries to over 4,000 people in Weymouth at any given time. The Weymouth Food Pantry serves between 100 and 250 families per service day, 600 and 800 families each month, and distributes about 830,000 pounds of food per year. The Weymouth Food Pantry offers food assistance and education through a variety of food access, food equity, and health focused programs, including pop-up pantries, grocery delivery to homebound elders and people with disabilities, a dollar-match at the farmers’ market, weekend food bags for students in school, an open access community garden, and “made with love” meals freshly prepared and frozen for easy reheating by neighbors for whom meal prep is a barrier to food security.
The Weymouth Food Pantry was founded in 1987 by a small group of concerned citizens. Its executive office is located at 40E Reservoir Park Drive, Rockland, MA 02370. For more information, please visit www.weymouthfoodpantry.org, email info@weymouthfoodpantry.org, or call 781-331-7682.
