10 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT YOU!
To us, you're pear-feet. There are so many grape things to say about you. Let's be honest, there are more than 10 reasons you're one in a melon. So, instead, let us count the ways you've nourished your fellow Victorians. You helped us deliver an incredible 18,500,000 MEALS! With your support, we served up many life-changing moments in 2025...
The Juicy Juice: Autumn '26
14.5 MILLION and veg.
1. We distributed kilos of food right across the state
2. including an amazing 33,000 kilos of fresh fruit
14 MILLION mealstoschoolkids 5.5 MILLION than1,300schools.
3. Our School Breakfast Clubs Program expandedto more
4. Where we served up 5. 215 6. and provided 23,973 home food packs for children andfamilies. We held 174fresh produce markets, supporting almost families.
7. Our supermarket buses Dorothy and Dave travelled 8,746 kilometres, to distribute 253,681 kilos of fresh, healthy food.
8. We whipped up a storm with families in our schoolcooking programs, and 167 women in our Strong Foundations Cooking Classes.
9. Our Community Food Centres in Morwell and Ballarat distributed 129,122 kilos of food and provided 7,344 community meals.
1O.And we redirected 317,000 kilos of food that would have otherwise gone to waste.
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From little things bigthings GROW
Did you know that Australia produces three times more than enough food to feed our population? Vet every year more than 50 million kilos of fruit and vegetables never leave our farms when supply exceeds demand, going to waste.
At the same time 1 in 5 households are skipping meals or going without food. With your help, we've created the GROW program -a new way of delivering more healthy food to communities across the state. We're working with farmers to get surplusproduce out offarms, and into the food chain. Meet the team at Corrigan's Produce Farms in Clyde -thanks to GROW, they're donating 300-600 KILOS of crisp, juicy celery every week. Celery that was once surplus. Celery that is now being delivered to our charity partners for people to enjoy in salads, soups and pasta sauces - and crunched raw straight off the farm. Neat huh? That your support has grown into a whole bunch of good.
See howyou'rehelpingto GROW theamountof foodwe supply to hungry communities every day.
Our buses Dorothyand Dave have reached the amazing milestone of providingover one million mealsto Victorianssince theyhit the roads in 2021. Ahuge thanks toYOU,and our generous foundation partners Kineticand DECJUBA Foundationfortheirongoing support.
Foreverfood angel
"As an emergency doctor, I see life come and go - you don't have to be old to leave this life. I might be younger, but I have already planned my Will," says Dr Deb.
"I've beengivingto Foodbank for many years now, because I believe in their ethos I can see the enormous benefits of what Foodbank does. I'm leaving a gift to Foodbank so that in the future I can continue to support the kinds of people who need help today."
This March, we're asking you to consider becoming a forever food angel, too. We've teamed up with SafeWillfor FREE WILL WEEK (16-30 March) to make
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leaving a legacy easy - and cost-free. By choosing to include Foodbank Victoria in your Will, you'll be part of a visionary movement -one that helps create a future where no Victorian has to go hungry. If you'd like to leave a gift in your Will, we'd love to hear from you.
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