9th Annual Pantry Plunge!
When: Saturday, December 13, 2025 at Noon
Where: Gallien’s Town Beach at Beaver Lake, 39 Pond Road, Derry, NH
Checks payable to:
FBC Community Food Pantry
4 Crystal Avenue, Derry, NH. 03038
This fundraiser for the FBC Community Food Pantry will take place on the second Saturday in December at high noon! Come as a solo or gather your friends, your family, and your co-workers and form a team! We remain committed to fighting hunger in our area. Join us and begin this Holiday Season by helping others have enough to eat; not just for the holidays but for the coming year.
Last year saw Pinkerton Academy Students meet the Matching Fund Challenge issued by Alexander Eastman Foundation. Alexander Eastman matched dollar-for-dollar funds raised by Pinkerton students up to $5,000! What a triumph!
This year the Stakes are doubled! Alexander Eastman will match, dollar-for-dollar, money raised by any PA student up to $10,000!!! That would provide a whole lot of food to the hungry in our community and we know our PA Students are up for this challenge!! GO ASTROS!!!
Come one, come all to participate in the 9th Annual Pantry Plunge!
(Except dogs! The Town of Derry does not allow dogs at Gallien’s Beach!!)
On Saturday, December 13, 2025, we will be once again taking to the frigid waters of our own Beaver Lake (at Gallien’s Beach) to raise money for the FBC Community Food Pantry! The Food Pantry has been serving our community for over thirty years. We anticipate unprecedented need this coming winter and hope YOU can help us meet these needs!
“How can I help make this event a big success?” you might ask … here’s how!
Form a Team of Your Own!
Step 1: Get a Donation Pledge Sheet & Waiver
Step 2: Show up on Plunge Day.
Step 3: Plunge! (Read our Advice)
Get your co-workers, your family, and your friends to join you! Offer everyone you know an opportunity to sponsor your Plunge. Bring your Pledge Sheet & Waiver (available here or on our Facebook page “Pantry Plunge”), your pledges, your warm, dry clothes, and your enthusiasm to Beaver Lake and change the world … and just maybe yourself! It will be the most unusual, reaffirming, moments of your holiday season. It does take courage … after all, a dip in the lake in December is a chilling experience! Those few moments of discomfort, however, can mean a lot – a WHOLE LOT – of food for those in need!
Become a sponsor!
If Taking the Plunge is not for you, please sponsor someone who is going in! A donation earmarked “Pantry Plunge” will help encourage other intrepid participants. We are working hard to raise as much money as we can, so that none of our neighbors will go hungry this year!
Best of all, it will provide the gift that keeps on giving.
Checks payable to:
FBC Community Food Pantry
4 Crystal Avenue, Derry, NH. 03038
Introducing an exciting NEW way to help the FBC Community Food Pantry this year!
https://PantryPlunge.org/lights
Thanks to the generosity of LaBelle Winery (14 Route 111, Derry, NH), we are having a Fundraiser at LaBelle Lights on Thursday, December 18th ! If you (and your family and friends and coworkers & EVERYONE!!!!) purchase tickets through our link, then HALF the ticket price will be donated to the FBC Community Food Pantry!!! Once you select a time it will direct you to the TICKETS page. SCROLL DOWN until you get the 12/18 FBC Community Food Pantry Fundraiser heading and purchase your tickets there. It’s that simple! It’s a great way to celebrate the season and help our hungry neighbors!!! Now we can all be Freezin’ for a Reason!!