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.

SecondBite has successfully partnered with Victoria University for the second year in a row to provide free and healthy takeaway meals for VU students.

For young mothers and socially isolated women living in the northern Queensland mining town of Moranbah, the Oasis Life Lounge offers much needed social activities, health support, life skills training and emergency food relief, courtesy of the SecondBite-facilitated community connect program with Coles Moranbah.

Two of SecondBite’s Brisbane agencies who work in tandem for food collection and meal preparation have not let the recent floods in South East Queensland hamper their efforts to provide meals to people in need.  

Seed funding provided by the Pratt Foundation and Lotterywest has allowed SecondBite to provide more than 17 million meals in the past three years to Western Australians who have experienced tough times.

Late last year Australian Venue Co. and SecondBite partnered to feed Aussies in need through a matched giving program – already raising more than $4,000.

With schools returning for the start of the year this week SecondBite’s support for school food relief programs will also swing into action after the summer break.