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The Impact of Your Donations
We believe all Queenslanders deserve access to good quality food. However, every single day, Queenslanders are going hungry. With your help, Foodbank can continue to get food where it’s needed most, distributing to local charities and schools right across Queensland. Our food supplies are provided to thousands of adults and children experiencing hunger every single week. With your support, we can continue this important work and give hope to families in need.
Your feedback matters to us
We hope the food hamper you received was helpful for your family. We’d be so grateful if you could take 2 minutes from your busy day to provide some much-appreciated feedback! Your feedback will help ensure we are helping in the most meaningful way possible.
And don’t worry, if you’d like to remain anonymous, that’s totally okay too.
Become a Foodbank Queensland Hunger Hero
Our Heroes are working towards a Queensland without hunger.
Showcase you care to your customers, staff and community
Foodbank Queensland’s Hunger Heroes are committed businesses who have pledged to support Foodbank Queensland with an annual donation of $5,000. This reliable income means Foodbank Queensland can do what it does best, sourcing and distributing meals to families all year round. This level of support is ideal for businesses looking to make a meaningful impact at an entry partnership level.
Give hope to hungry Queenslanders
Foodbank Queensland can turn your $5,000 donation into 10,000 meals or use our supplier relationships to convert $1 into the equivalent of $5 retail value of food.
Make your company a Foodbank Hunger Hero
Your support will feed Queenslanders in need
Foodbank Queensland’s Impact
We believe all Queenslanders deserve access to good quality food. However, every single day, Queenslanders are going hungry. With your help, Foodbank can continue to get food where it’s needed most, distributing to local charities and schools right across Queensland. Our food supplies are provided to thousands of adults and children experiencing hunger every single week. With your support, we can continue this important work and give hope to families in need.
© Copyright 2025 Foodbank Queensland. Donations over $2 are tax deductible.
Foodbank Queensland’s Townsville Food Distribution Centre
Delivering Food Relief Across North Queensland
In April 2025, Foodbank Queensland began operating our Townsville Food Distribution Centre, following the generous transfer of assets from Food Relief North Queensland (FRNQ). This partnership marks a significant milestone in our continued efforts to provide food relief across North Queensland. We are incredibly grateful to FRNQ for their support, allowing us to further expand our reach to help feed more hungry Queenslanders.
Foodbank Queensland’s Townsville Food Distribution Centre plays a vital role in ensuring food relief reaches communities across North Queensland. This facility is not open to the public but serves as a hub where our Community Partners and schools can collect fresh produce, pantry staples, and essential groceries to distribute to people facing hunger.
From here, we work closely with local farmers, food donors, and transport partners to provide much-needed food relief to regional and remote areas in North Queensland. With the support of our generous donors and hardworking volunteers, we keep our Food Distribution Centre stocked and ready to assist Queenslanders doing it tough.
Whether it’s supporting everyday food relief programs or delivering emergency assistance in times of crisis, the Townsville Food Distribution Centre ensures our Community Partners have access to the food they need to help those most in need.
Foodbank Queensland is expanding to Townsville to better support northern Queensland and improve food distribution to regional and remote communities.
Food insecurity affects 36% of regional Queenslanders, compared to 28% in metropolitan areas—and this gap is widening. As food insecurity grows in regional areas, our Townsville Food Distribution Centre will help ensure more Queenslanders have access to nutritious food and groceries when they need it.
Our commitment is to provide no cost/low-cost food and groceries to Queenslanders who need them, including communities in Northern Queensland. We will continue to also provide disaster response and recovery support for Queenslanders.
We are also working in partnership with communities to address the causes of food insecurity.
FRNQ has transferred its assets to Foodbank Queensland and is no longer continuing as a Queensland charity. The nature of this asset transfer means Foodbank does not have access to or hold previous FRNQ financial supporter databases.
For any needs related to FRNQ’s past operations and donations made, please contact FRNQ’s previous manager: info@foodreliefnq.org.au
If you are a Queensland-based charity, not-for-profit, or community support provider, you may be eligible to become a Foodbank Queensland Community Partner. Foodbank Queensland works with over 350 Community Partners across the state to provide food and groceries to people in need. Community Partners offer a range of food relief services, including food hampers, low-cost grocery outlets, community meals, cooking programs, and street outreach. Becoming a Community Partner gives your organisation access to a reliable supply of food and groceries all year round to support your programs. To find out more or to apply, please email: members@foodbankqld.org.au
Foodbank is always looking for new local supporters and partners who can help to ensure no Queenslander experiences hunger. For more information on becoming a supporter of the Townsville Distribution Centre, please contact kim@foodbankqld.org.au
Foodbank is always looking for new local supporters and partners who can help to ensure no Queenslander experiences hunger. For more information on becoming a supporter of Foodbank’s five vital programs, including regional School Breakfast Programs, please contact Samantha@foodbankqld.org.au
Get Involved
Join our Volunteers
By joining the Foodbank Queensland team as a volunteer, you will make a direct and positive community impact – helping us to get food to thousands of families every week. Your support will give food and hope to someone going without.
As of April 2025, we are offering volunteering positions at our Townsville, Mount St John, Food Distribution Centre. At this Distribution Centre, hamper packing volunteer roles are available.
Become a Financial Supporter
Your kind gift helps Foodbank Queensland provide essential food relief to those in need across the state. Donations enable us to purchase pantry staples, and essential groceries that are distributed to our Community Partners, schools, and charities. Every dollar donated goes directly towards feeding hungry Queenslanders.
By supporting Foodbank Queensland you play a key role in supporting families, individuals, and communities facing hunger all across the state.
Become a Food Donor
We accept donations of all kinds of food and groceries from farmers, manufacturers and retailers throughout Australia. We also partner with food companies who donate ingredients and services so we can produce essential items like breakfast cereals, pasta, sauce and tinned fruit and vegetables. If you’re interested in learning more check out our collaborative supply program.
Discover more about Foodbank Queensland
Getting food to Queenslanders
who need it
Providing 10,000 meals every hour to hungry Queenslanders
We provide food relief to
350
Community Partners
As well as
430
School Breakfast Programs
We sourced food to deliver more than
22M
meals last years
We are a not-for-profit, non-denominational, federated organisation operating in every state and territory in Australia.
Here at Foodbank Queensland, we believe that access to healthy food is a basic human right. Each week, we support 135,000 Queenslanders in crisis and provide breakfast to 52,000 children each school week. We work in collaboration with 350 Community Partners and 430 Schools.
Alongside food relief, we rescue surplus food that would otherwise go to waste, reducing landfill and protecting the environment. We’re also focused on long-term change, partnering with communities to build fairer, more resilient local food systems.
Respect
Collaboration
Our values
Compassion
Responsibility
Trust
Meet the Community Partners
Meet a Community Partner: Westside Community Care
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Meet a Community Partner: ADRA Townsville
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Meet a Community Partner: The Street University – Ted Noffs Foundation
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Meet a Food Producer: Mackays Marketing
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Meet a Community Partner: Community Gro Townsville
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Meet a Community Partner: Community Friends
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Meet a Community Partner: Open Hands Community Care
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Meet a Community Partner: Champions Church
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Meet a Community Partner: Goodness Enterprises
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The 2024 Foodbank Hunger Report shows close to 700,000 Queenslanders are suffering through lack of healthy and nutritious food
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Sustainable development goals
Foodbank Queensland’s activities play a key role in delivering on a number of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which are aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all.
Foodbank Queensland’s operations are strongly aligned to the following 8 of the 17 goals.
We provide food relief to Queenslanders experiencing financial hardship.
We rescue and distribute food to ensure no one goes without.
We reach vulnerable communities across Queensland.
We reduce food waste by rescuing surplus food.
We work with government, industry, businesses and Community Partners to fight hunger.
We supply nutritious food to support healthy lives.
Our School Breakfast Program helps children learn on a full stomach.
By diverting food from landfill, we cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
Farm to Families
Your monthly gift will help rescue food and feed families across Queensland.
Join our Farm to Families team
Hunger & Food Waste are big issues. But together, we can solve them. Join Farm To Families, our community of monthly givers, who are bringing fresh food to families in Queensland every single month.
Queensland produces enough food to nourish every man, woman and child in our state, but sadly millions of kilograms of food are wasted or spoiled before this food can reach households. By rescuing food from farms before it is disposed of, and providing this food to vulnerable families in Queensland, our Farm to Families supporters achieve positive and meaningful impact in our community!
1. Families NEED fresh food
All Queenslanders deserve access to good quality food, all year round. However, every single day, Queenslanders are going hungry. We need your help to get fresh food to thousands of hungry families every week.
2. Farmers have EXCESS fresh food
We believe food belongs in bellies! But sadly, whilst families are going hungry, quality fresh food on Queensland farms is being wasted. Every year, millions of kilograms of food is wasted due to oversupply, labour shortages, and transport challenges. You can help get this food to Queenslanders in need and support our farmers.
3. YOU can get this food to hungry families!
Help get fresh food to families in need by supporting Foodbank Queensland’s Farm to Families Program. Your generous monthly gift will ensure healthy and nutritious food gets to communities that need it most while supporting local farmers and reducing food waste.
Are you in? Make your first monthly gift today!
Join Farm To Families Now
Your monthly gift will help rescue food and feed families across Queensland.
Why Give Monthly?
By giving a small donation every month, you will be joining our Farm To Families team, and will make a big difference!
To be most effective, we need a strong base of Farm To Families givers who we can rely on monthly. In fact, 50% of our funding comes from regular donations from people like you. This reliable funding is what helps us continue food rescue programs and support families seeking aid.
Monthly giving is the most impactful way to support Foodbank. Without monthly gifts, we can’t effectively rescue large volumes of food, and provide support consistently to hundreds of families who need your support.
Foodbank supplies food to support thousands of adults and children experiencing hunger every single week. With your support, we can continue this important work and give hope to families in need.
Your Monthly Gift will:
- Give hungry families fresh food weekly, with a $25 monthly gift!
- Rescue pallets of fresh food from going to waste!
- Support local farmers in Queensland!
- Help (Foodbank) transport food across Queensland!
Chosen by you, your monthly gift is automatically deducted each month. This reduces our admin costs and means our small team can instead focus more on what we do best, rescuing food and feeding families in need throughout Queensland.
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© Copyright 2025 Foodbank Queensland.
Donations over $2 are tax deductible.
Turn your empty containers into a donation and help those in need.
It’s as easy as 1,2,3
Foodbank Queensland is now part of Containers For Change enabling you to turn your recycling into cash donations for Foodbank. Donating is as easy as 1….2….3
Step 1 – Collect eligible containers.
Most aluminium, glass, plastic, steel, and liquid paperboard beverage containers between 150ml and three litres are eligible for a refund when returned to a container refund point. To be eligible the beverage container must:
- Have contained a beverage product that is not excluded from the scheme. For example, cordials, and plain milk are not included in the scheme so containers that have held these products are not eligible for a refund
- Display the refund mark. This is so that the container refund point operator can see if the container is part of the scheme. Most containers will already have a refund mark for SA and NT and these containers are eligible under Containers for Change. Beverage manufacturers have until 1 December 2019 to display the new refund mark on their containers
- Be an approved container. Some containers are made out of materials that cannot be recycled. These containers may not be approved (by the Queensland Government) as an eligible container as the scheme requires that when a refund is paid on a container that container must be recycled.
Step 2 – Find your nearest collection depot
Head to the containers for change website and search for your closest collection depot.
Step 3 – Quote the ID to donate
To donate to Foodbank Queensland, simply quote the ID number below in order to make your donation.
ID: C10002907
For every five containers donated, Foodbank can provided a meal to a Queenslander in need.
Hunger in Queensland
Hunger in Queensland
- Close to 400,000 households experienced severe food insecurity in the last 12 months
- Close to 700,000 households experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months
- 44% of Australia’s low-income households (earning less than $30,000 per year) are experiencing food insecurity.
- Food insecurity is being felt more acutely in the regions (36%) compared to metropolitan areas (28%).
- Food relief support from family and friends has dropped to 23% in 2024, compared to 27% in 2023.
- Food insecure households increased in their awareness of where to seek food relief support to 47% in 2024 (vs 36% in 2023).
- In 2024, 50% of severely food insecure households had adults not eating for whole days because they can’t afford food.
- 32% of all Queensland households are experiencing food insecurity.
FOODBANK HUNGER REPORT
Explore the facts of food insecurity in Australia
Research and Reports
We are Australia’s definitive source of information on food insecurity and food relief. We publish several reports throughout the year, all of which can be accessed here.
Go to Research & Reports
Foodbank Hunger Report 2024
Now in its 11th year, the report reveals the widening gap between those managing to adapt to rising costs and those being left behind.
Read the Report
Foodbank Hunger Map
This groundbreaking tool provides a detailed snapshot of food insecurity across Australia, offering unparalleled insights into the depth and scale of the challenge.
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Food waste in Australia
Ending food waste plays a big role in ending hunger, and everyone has a part to play; from production, right through to the way that we as consumers choose to shop.
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