Interesting facts
about Foodbank WA

The largest freezer of all of the six Foodbank branches is in the Perth branch and holds 468 pallets. It is set at a very cold -18 degrees Celsius, walking in there is a better wake-up than a strong coffee!

In January and February this year alone, we had 913 tonnes of food that came into our branch either donated or purchased. To give you an idea of the volume of that, our largest truck takes 10 pallets of food which is equivalent to 6 or 7 tonnes of stock. This would mean we would need 152 trucks to move this food.

Our Community Kitchen is like no other in Australia. Besides being the only Foodbank kitchen in the country, what makes our kitchen different is that each week Foodbank WA’s Chef Grant is dealt the ultimate mystery box challenge, or in his case, mystery pallet. 

It’s hard to image but this means that chef Grant does not know exactly what he will be cooking each week and with what ingredients until sometimes the Monday morning he starts!

 Each meal is dependent on what is donated. To date, 533,681 meals have been prepared in our Community Kitchen since its inception in 2015. 

Where does our food come from? We currently have 371 amazing and generous donors that range from transport companies, to manufacturers, farmers and growers, packing sheds, meat suppliers the list goes on.

Western Australia is vast, making travel complex and expensive. In addition to our 17-vehicle fleet of trucks that operate between our six branches in Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Peel, Bunbury and Albany in addition to our Perth branch in the Perth Airport precinct we run our Mobile Foodbank service which has 44 locations. This mean that the kms certainly add up week after week and month after month. This sees our average kms driven per year to an eye-watering 316,900km. That’s a little over 80 trips across the country in a year!