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Winter’s bite harsher than ever for many Aussies This week our team at SecondBite announced corporate partner Coles and media…

Coles Winter Appeal 2022 For many years Coles supermarkets and Liquor stores have held annual fundraising appeals at winter and…

Cavendish Road State High School students have been rolling up their sleeves, pilfering their pantries and doing extra trolley runs…

The highlight of the Coles Store Support Centre sustainability week (May 9 – 13) was definitely the mini warehouse set up at their head office, in which staff came to pack much needed hampers of essential pantry items in support of SecondBite.

Mid Richmond Neighbourhood Centre (also known as the Consortium of Neighbourhood Centres) has been in the thick of emergency relief work for flood ravaged communities in northern NSW over the past several months. Located in Evans Head and servicing services nearby towns of Coraki, Broadwater and Woodburn, the centre was delivering emergency food parcels and others essential items via boat to evacuation centres and areas of higher ground where locals were congregated during the worst of the flooding.  

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Food Assist is an Adelaide-based charity which provides food relief across several locations in the city and as far afield as Kangaroo Island, supporting more than 1000 people each week. Over the past seven years working with SecondBite, it has received a whopping 780,000 kg of fresh food and pantry staples.

Australia’s major food rescue organisations have come together to ensure those experiencing hardship are not forgotten in the lead-up to the Federal election and beyond. SecondBite, Foodbank and OzHarvest are calling on all sides of politics to deliver improved food relief funding and tax incentives to help reduce food waste and feed more Australians doing it tough. Read our joint call for action below.

Coles The Pines store manager Frank McDermott is a passionate advocate for SecondBite and its local charity partners on the Gold Coast and uses his platform not only to inspire and engage his store team members, but his 25,000 customers as well. In almost eight years of food collections The Pines store has donated more than 40,000 kg of food to SecondBite and its charity partners.

SecondBite works with several charity partners nationally, both large and small, that support women and single mothers with food relief. We provide food hampers, prep-prepared meals and community food pantries, which allows the women easy access to food without safety fears.