Every year, funds raised during the Feed Geelong Appeal are granted to organisations providing emergency food assistance. Such grants help organisations improve food supply and access to fresh and nutritional food to those who need it most.
To improve the health of some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable in our community by providing access to more fruit through the Christ Church Community Meals breakfast program.
To provide culturally appropriate food to over 150 asylum seekers experiencing financial hardship within the Geelong region.
To increase the capacity to store and distribute healthy food (including fresh produce and dairy) to those in need through the purchase of an industrial refrigeration cool room for the North Geelong premises.
To help to feed 40 newborn babies and young children from highly disadvantaged families, who require specialist formula due to lactose intolerance and other medical conditions.
To support the storage, preparation and distribution of food to those who are disadvantaged or marginalised through the Community Meals program and Global Food Share program.
To support healthy meals for homeless men through the purchase of a commercial fridge/freezer.
To support the collection and redistribution of over 300,000 kilograms of high quality fresh food for 108 community food programs providing 600,000 nutritious meals for disadvantaged families, children and young people in Geelong region through support for fuel costs.
To increase the capacity to provide fresh fruit and vegetables to those in the Geelong community who are hungry or without food by providing a preparation area as part of the food room at the at UnitingCare Geelong Grovedale site.