Foodbank Victoria (AU, 94117688829) Browse events

Foodbank Victoria is an independent not for profit organisation that provides food relief to individuals and families experiencing hardship. With more than 80 years’ experience, we are the state’s oldest and largest food relief organisation. We work with a network of over 800 corporate and community partners to source and distribute food with the aim of helping to improve the lives of Victorians that need our support.

Bay City Care (AU, 90469944285) Browse events

Bay City Care is an initiative and community welfare arm of Bay City Church that will bring assistance to any persons who are homeless, unemployed, sole parents or otherwise disadvantaged including food, residential program and social welfare services. Bay City Care is a not-for-profit organisation that works collaboratively with the community, government, non-government agencies and churches to address a range of social and immediate issues.  

Sustainable Food Trust (AU, 1148645) Browse events

We all need to eat, but we face huge challenges to the ways we produce our food. Challenges that will affect everyone. At the SFT, we are committed to facing challenges and exploring solutions for a food production system that causes the least possible harm to both humans and the environment.

EON Foundation Inc (AU, 67663634217) Browse events

Founded in 2005, EON is a WA based not-for-profit organisation that delivers a food and nutrition focused healthy lifestyle and disease prevention program. The Program is now established and proven in 17 Indigenous communities in Western Australia, with several new communities planned for 2016-17. We build edible gardens in remote Indigenous schools and communities for a secure supply of fresh food, and partner with them to deliver a hands-on practical gardening, nutrition education, cooking and hygiene program.

Foodbank SA (AU, 70673398230) Browse events

Foodbank SA's mission is to provide healthy food accessible and affordable to all people at all times. Join in to fight hunger in South Australia!

Foodbank WA (AU, 49363114556) Browse events

Foodbank WA is the state's largest hunger relief charity, supporting more than 55,000 disadvantage people and families each month. Last year more than four million meals were supplied through Foodbanks community networks. Foodbank WA helps the environment by saving surplus food from landfill and it operates Australia's largest School Breakfast Program.

Africa Water Bank Australia (AU, 87600363219) Browse events

With poor sanitation and no access to clean safe water, life is very difficult and often impossible. Providing clean water to people will save more lives than any other intervention. AfricaWaterBank provides a sustainable solution by working with communities to build rainwater harvesting systems.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation (AU, 74107809030) Browse events

The mission of the SAKGF is the advancement of health, by training teachers to deliver the SAKG Program to primary school children. The Program aims to develop in children a lifelong appreciation of fresh, seasonal foods through practical and pleasurable educational experiences intended to influence the food choices they make for the rest of their lives.

FareShare (AU, 89304710474) Browse events

FareShare is a food rescued and distribution charity. We help tens of thousands of Victorians each year who are struggling to make ends meet, by providing them with free nutritious meals. FareShare cooks over one million meals a year from its Abbotsford kitchen. All meals are cooked by volunteers, under the guidance of professional chefs, using bulk food donated by businesses. Our motto: rescue food - fight hunger!

The Uganda Project (Dream Life International) (AU, 85437969377) Browse events

The Uganda Project is an initiative that is dedicated to providing shelter, food, community and education to orphaned children living in Kampala Uganda. Volunteers can organise a fundraiser in their community that will go towards employing teachers and building new classrooms in Uganda.

St Joseph's School Nyngan (AU, 79647035529) Browse events

We are having a fun run to raise money to buy banks of iPads, one for the infants section and one for the primary section.

Manly Friends of Oecusse Inc. (AU, 47836204271) Browse events

Interested members of the Manly community formed a support group in 2008 called Manly Friends of Oecusse (MFOO). The objectives of the group were to build friendship and support between the people of Manly and the people of Oecusse, Timor Leste; to support the Friendship Agreement made on 12 August 2008 between Manly Council and the district of Oecusse and to provide financial and practical assistance to projects instigated by the local community in the areas of education, clean water and food security.

Cairns Community Enterprise Ltd (AU, 72136696574) Browse events

Cairns Community Enterprise (CCE) is an initiative of leading local community bank, the Bendigo Bank. The enterprise represents not for profit organisations in the area of sport, health, youth and community and it is an entity aimed at generating income for these key sectors in the Far Northern region.

The Freedom Project (AU, 37220593382) Browse events

We greatly value your generosity and kindness in supporting the work of The Freedom Project to bring freedom, hope and a future to the trafficked and enslaved.  are also accepted gratefully with tax receipts emailed promptly. Cheques should be made to: The Freedom Project Ltd For DIRECT DEPOSITS - Bank Account details are NAB The Freedom Project Ltd BSB: 082053 Acct: 185118805

Holy Fools Inc. (AU, 94292230924) Browse events

is an organisation dedicated to easing the pain of those experiencing the trauma of homelessness and poverty within the Yarra Ranges. We do this in many ways; from community meals, providing food and welfare, to hosting educational events and running research. Our Street Angels service operates a weekly food van/BBQ's, reaching into the more difficult areas of the Yarra Ranges to bring fresh food, community and health links. In addition, we operate Matt’s Cafe, a bi-weekly community meal in Lilydale that feeds families, individuals and many experiencing rental and mortgage stress. We often partner with other organisations in the Yarra Ranges and welcome others to join us in the effort to meet the needs and issues within the Shire. Short-term goals include the building of crisis accommodation, as well as partnering with others to create long-term solutions about homelessness.  We hope that you can join us in making the light shine in people’s lives that for so long have been in the darkness of poverty and homelessness.  We are largely funded through the generosity of individual donors and do not receive any government funding. Donations made by individuals and companies over $2, donations are 100% tax deductible.

Rotary Cord Blood Bank (AU, 35105363086) Browse events

This is a bank to be built in Wellington Street, Perth and will collect  transplant material collected from the umbilical cord and placenta. This in turn could provide a bone marrow match for a child suffering from leukaemia in WA or anywhere else in Australia. Currently we have 70 West Australians, mainly children, awaiting a successful donation to treat leukaemia and other bone and marrow diseases. Any sponsorship will help towards our last million.

Moyne Health Services- Port Fairy Hospital (AU, 30586278991) Browse events

Moyne Health Services is located in Moyne Shire in the South West of Victoria. The Shire was created in 1994 and covers an area of approximately 5,500 square kilometres with a population of around 16,500.  The Moyne Shire has a higher percentage of people aged over 35 years of age than the Victorian average. In addition to this, the municipality of Moyne has a higher percentage of families with children less than fifteen years of age than Regional Victoria and Victoria as a whole. In Moyne, 92% of residents were Australian born and 95% of residents only speak English.   Moyne is characterised by its significant agricultural production, expansive tourism industry, thriving industry and an infrastructure of towns connected by an expansive road system.  The Moyne area is home to a wide range of services and industry, including health and community services, dairy products, fresh fish, pharmaceuticals, manufactured foods, seafood processing, quarrying (road materials and cut bluestone), transport and education centres.

Dorcus House (Australia) Inc (AU, 94273644626) Browse events

Kolkata: A place where many women and their children sleep, eat, wash and exist on the streets or in the slums.  They have no hope but begging from passers by. Many have no education, no work possibilities and above all cannot afford education for their children, and so the cycle of poverty is perpetuated. They are all open to the vagaries of the weather, to abuse from others and generally to be ignored.   Dorcus House is set up to give those women a chance. It is a place for education: literacy and numeracy. It is a place for job training: be it dressmaking, Indian crafts or micro business ventures. Women will be encouraged and helped to put their children into school. It is a place to access nutritional food and a place to get help for health and hygiene issues.   "To take the women and children, who live on the streets or in the slums of Kolkata; Give them a hope and a future by offering them a safe place to receive an education, vocational training, medical help and food. A place where they can build a future for themselves and their children".   Widow sponsorship is available at $200.00 per year or $20.00 per month. This will give each widow a food package of rice, potatoes, flour and lentils each month. We are setting up an education package for the teenage daughters of our widows to enable them to continue at school and maybe go on into a career. Basic education for some of our widows will also be offered to enable them to read, write and do basic maths. Because our ladies live in makeshift homes on Government land, there are times when their houses collapse due to wet season storms. Repairs need to be done from time to time. Donations to ‘building repairs’ would be helpful in keeping our ladies and their children safe and dry.      

Children's Food Education Foundation (AU, 79108558372) Browse events

An Australian charity creating and delivering innovative food education programs for children and young people with disavantages, chronic illness, disabilities, mental disorders, and those who care for themselves or others. Promoting an understanding of food, health, nutrition and healthy food choices by children and young people in order to prevent and/or control childhood obesity and/or the diseases medically linked or associated with childhood obesity including, but not limited to Type 2 Diabetes, Asthma, Coronary Heart Disease and Depression. Facilitating, coordinating and supporting the development and dissemination of information for the education of children and young people in relation to food, health, nutrition and healthy food choices; Developing resources for use by children and young people who may be impoverished, sick or disadvantaged, or for use by schools or other relevant persons or institutions who can deliver food education initiatives which promote an understanding of food, health, nutrition and healthy food choices; Monitoring, evaluating and disseminating research knowledge in an accessible form so that it can be better used by policy makers, practitioners and educators.    

Assist A Sista (AU, 38462900254) Browse events

Rosies - Friends on the Streets (AU, 21094797001) Browse events

Meals on Wheels NSW (AU, 27755348253) Browse events

Meals on Wheels has had a place in the hearts and homes of Australians for more than 60 years.  Helping the frail older people and younger people with disabilities and their carers stay in their own homes where most are happiest is at the heart of the matter.   Every day a friendly smile, a chat about the weather, a nutritious meal and knowing someone will drop by to say hello, changes the lives of many Australians.  And it's not just the clients who value this contact.  Ask any of the 35,000 NSW volunteers and they will tell you reaching out and making a difference in somebody else's day, makes their day.    Independence is something we all value and to have that taken away through not being able to go to the shops for groceries or to cook regular meals, should not be an obstacle to autonomy.

St Vincent de Paul - VIC (AU, 19105987265) Browse events

    Founded in 1854, the St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria assists over 660,000 people each year. Across Australia, approximately 5,000 people are assisted by the Society every day.  The Society helps all who ask for assistance, regardless of background, beliefs, culture or religion.    With a commitment to giving a hand up – not a hand out – the Society meets people at their unique point of need offering hope, comfort and dignity to Victorians finding themselves needing a helping hand.  Members and volunteers respond to calls from people in need within their local communities and provide friendship and practical assistance of approximately $10 million each year in Victoria alone.    Vinnies Retail Centres provide quality clothing, furniture and household items to people in need. Stocks are freely supplied to people being supported by the Society, as well as to the general public at a low cost. Profits from the sale of stock in the centres assists in funding the work of the Society.   The Society’s five soup vans services provide approximately 200,000 meals each year to people on Victoria’s streets. With more families coming to our soup vans for help, the friendship and referrals that the soup vans offer are increasingly important across Victoria. Staffed by volunteers called “Vannies”, the vans travel the streets of metropolitan Melbourne and Moe bringing food and friendship to thousands of people living in boarding houses, low-rise/high-rise flats, refuges and on the streets.    The Society’s services include:  Home, hospital and prison visitation;  Practical and material assistance; Soup vans;  Mental health support;  Homeless services;  Tutoring programs;  Youth services;  Kids camps for disadvantaged children; Migrant and refugee support; Overseas Aid;  Social advocacy and lobbying.     

Ecumenical Coffee Brigade (ECB) (AU, 29906767955) Browse events

The Ecumenical Coffee Brigade was established in 1970 by Louisa Toogood who saw a need to minister to homeless and marginalised people within the Brisbane CBD by offering them food and a hot drink each morning.  Following her example, the ECB as a voluntary organisation, continues to provide these same services.   We are committed to ensuring that every day of the year the van goes out on the street to serve food and drink and offer a welcoming presence.   We seek to offer those we meet respect and acceptance by treating all with dignity. We look for new ways of ensuring that the needs of the people we serve are respected and responded to whenever possible.

St Andrew's Meals on Wheels Townsville (AU, 76417830426) Browse events

St Andrew's Meals on Wheels provides an important service to many elderly and disabled clients and carers residing in the Townsville district. Many new referrals result from clients who have been discharged from hospital, or self-referrals from people in the community who are no longer able to prepare meals.   The service enables many elderly members of our community to remain in their own homes, thus enhancing their independence and quality of life. In some instances, access to the service may only be a temporary measure, offering assistance until they have recuperated.   The service was inaugurated in 1964 by the Reverend Ken and Mrs. Sheila Stevens, with the support of the congregation of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. It began by serving five clients for three days a week at a charge of two shillings (20¢) for each meal. The meals were cooked and delivered by members of the congregation. The service has grown since these early days and we now prepare and deliver over 5,000 meals each month.