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This week. SecondBite was busy celebrating World Envinroment Day!The theme for this year’s World Environment Day celebrations is Think.Eat.Save.Think.Eat.Save is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint.Check out what we got up to...1. CEO Elaine Montegriffo had a chat on ABC Radio National to discuss SecondBite's mission to tackle food waste in Australia. Clik the image to have a listen!.2.SecondBite answered the call from fresh food donor Golden ...
From 12 June to 9 July, you can support SecondBite when you shop at any Coles supermarket around Australia!You can help provide quality fresh food to vulnerable Australians and their families by purchasing a $2 raffle ticket* in-store for the chance to win a Coles Gift Card. You can also make a direct donation at the register.Over the past 18 months, Coles and SecondBite have been proudly conducting the Coles Community Food with SecondBite program. This powerful food rescue init...
Run Melbourne 2013 is upon us!Last year it was fantastic to have a group of supporters run to raise funds for SecondBite, we'd love to see even more people jump on board this year!Your fundraising will help us to provide increased access to healthy fresh food for vulnerable men, women and their children. To register for Run Melbourne please go to www.runmelbourne.com.au. To set up your fundraising page, go to Everyday Hero. If you’d like to fundraise for SecondBite, you just need to regis...
SecondBite needs your support to help feed vulnerable people this winter.Right now, vulnerable people across Australia are struggling to find the food for their daily and weekly meals. They face the difficult choice of paying for rent, energy and food.SecondBite collects quality surplus fresh food and redistributes this to over 550 community organisations, where it is converted into healthy nutritious meals for people in need. People like Joe, a single man in his 30’s, who became u...
YGAP has selected SecondBite’s FoodMate program as one of three projects being supported through YGAP’s creative “Our World Needs Change” five cent collections and pledges for the month of May 2013. You can sign up here and start collecting as many 5c as you can or even better, sign up for their 5c pledge option.SecondBite is very grateful to be a part of YGAP’s 2013 five cent campaign and hopes that you can become both a YGAP and SecondBite supporter and find 100’s of...
Ben and Jerry’s are helping SecondBite to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people. Last Thursday as part of the Ben and Jerry’s “Chunks for Change” tour, Danny Clayton from Channel V, visited our warehouse in Kensington. Please click here to see Danny’s video as he helps SecondBite to collect surplus fresh food which would otherwise go to landfill and redistribute this to vulnerable people and their families who would otherwise struggle to find the foo...
A fantastic day at Ipswich Queensland! Curtis Stone supporting the Coles Community Food with SecondBite program and the Salvation Army Bundamba, with a visit to the Coles Ipswich store, one of our new Community Connect donors, followed by a BBQ, hosted by the Salvos, attended by the locals. Ben and Emma at the Salvation Army received the fresh produce donation and assisted Curtis with making the rescued fresh food into fresh burgers and healthy salads for local community members. A HUGE thanks t...
A big thank you to Doug and Jacinta Brown, peach growers from Invergordon who tomorrow will donate 4–5 tonnes of freshly harvested peaches to SecondBite. Doug was on ABC News last week talking passionately about not wanting to see excess fruit from the season’s harvest go to waste. SecondBite got in touch with Doug and he kindly agreed to donate the peaches. His staff are also contributing by picking the donated peaches for free!Thanks again Doug and Jacinta for your generosity, SecondBite i...
Many thanks to all of the supporters, volunteers and The Swing Sisters for contributing to such a successful night....
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