FOODBANK & VARIETY SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

More than 1 in 4 South Australian children have experienced hunger in the last 12 months. Foodbank SA & NT has identified that children suffering food insecurity often require more than just breakfast if they are to be given an equal start in life they deserve.

Through consultation with schools, agencies and the community it has become apparent that a high number of children are not eating lunch due to a lack of food availability. This lack of adequate food has a significant impact on their school day, overall attendance and learning capabilities as well as their growth and development.

The regular provision of healthy and tasty lunches as well as the provision of a nutritious breakfast at school means that children have the opportunity to fill their rumbling tummies, feel better from eating good food and to be healthy and happy.

The School Lunch Program reinforces the good work being done by many schools that aim to encourage and support healthy eating. Well-fed students will be easier to teach, making the schools and teachers also beneficiaries of the Program.

The Foodbank Variety School Lunch Program allows students to prepare healthy lunch options alongside the School Breakfast Program.

Students who attend breakfast club have the opportunity to make a sandwich for their lunch and also pick up fruit and/or muesli bars. Available foods include bread, ham, cheese, margarine, vegemite, muesli bars and fruit. The program not only enables students to access food, but to also helps them develop food preparation skills.

The Foodbank Variety School Lunch Program will be offered to eligible schools in South Australia who access the Foodbank SA & NT School Breakfast Program.

The Program is open to all students who do not have lunch in participating schools. Some students may be identified by teachers and encouraged to go to breakfast club to make their lunch.

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School Breakfast Program

Foodbank SA & NT’s School Breakfast Program helps to provide healthy, nutritious food to children who turn up at school hungry. The Program also helps schools to provide fruit bowls in classrooms and common areas for students to consume at school.

Foodbank SA & NT provides breakfast foods to schools free of charge in all regions of South Australia and the Northern Territory and also provides food to other charities for their school breakfast programs.

Breakfast items provided free of charge to registered schools in South Australia and the Northern Territory through the School Breakfast Program include cereal, long-life milk, canned fruit, Vegemite, jam, fresh fruit, and bread.

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Foodbank SA & NT School Food Drive Registration

All South Australian and Northern Territorian schools are welcome to participate in a Foodbank Food Drive. Food donations will go to your local Foodbank in Edwardstown, Christies Beach, Woodville, Davoren Park, Berri, Mount Gambier, Whyalla, Alice Springs or Darwin.

Food drives are a great way to get your school community involved in helping people in need.

At Foodbank SA & NT we are all for the community coming together and helping each other out. Registering your Food Drive shows our future generations that there is support for them should they ever need it and helps students to gain an understanding and different perspective of a person’s environment.

Hunger affects more than 150,000+ South Australians and Territorians every month, with one third of them being children. They are families like yours, they might live in your street. But because they suffer in silence, you would never know.

If your school hasn’t yet registered for a Food Drive please register, so we can provide you with the support you need to run a successful food drive.

All donations are weighed and your school will be advised how much they have collected.

Registration

To register please complete the form below.

Once registered you will receive all of the documents you need to help you with your School Food Drive, including posters, flyers and messages to send home to parents.

You may also like to read through our Food Drive FAQ including access to posters to support your food drive.

Application form

Registration Form

SA Foodbank SA School Food Drive Registration
This can be the School name, team name etc.
Main contact for food drive
Main contact for food drive
What date will your Food Drive commence?
What date will your Food Drive end?
By clicking yes you authorise for photos/images taken or provided during this Food Drive to be used by Foodbank for promotional purposes.

Are you looking to run a Christmas Food Drive for Foodbank?

Hunger is one of Australia’s best kept secrets, yet it impacts more than 150,000 South Australian and Northern Territorians every month. One third of these are children.

Running a Christmas Food drive is a great way for organisations and schools to help supply the non-perishable items that are always needed by Foodbank and especially at Christmas time. Our most wanted items are those everyone has in their pantries. All food donations of in date shelf stable products are welcome.

All South and Northern Australian organisations, individuals and schools are welcome to participate. Food donations will go to your local Foodbank locations across South Australia and the Northern Territory.

All donations are weighed and you will be advised how much they have collected.

To register please complete the form below.You may also like to read through our Christmas Food Drive FAQ including access to posters to support your food drive.

SA Foodbank SA Christmas Food Drive Registration
This can be the organisation name, team name etc.
Main contact for food drive
Main contact for food drive
What date will your Food Drive commence?
Please note that for Christmas donations the final drop off date is 17 December. Donations received after this date will be distributed in the new year.
By clicking yes you authorise for photos/images taken or provided during this Food Drive to be used by Foodbank for promotional purposes.

Foodbank Christmas Food Drive FAQ

For more information

Organisations

Please contact the marketing team on 08 8351 1136 or via email on marketing@foodbanksa.org.au. We may promote your organisation in our marketing, including on social media where relevant.

Schools

Please contact Education Programs Team on 08 8351 1136 or via email on schools@foodbanksa.org.au. The team has great ideas on how to engage kids to help our community.

We would really appreciate if you can register your Food Drive for us, and for how long (we recommend three to four weeks but that is entirely up to you).

Our most wanted items this Christmas are:

  • Canned Fruit and Canned Vegetables
  • Pasta
  • Tuna
  • Rice
  • Spreads (Jam, Vegemite, honey)
  • Cereal
  • Tinned Meat or meals
  • Baked beans/tinned spaghetti
  • Long Life Milk *UHT
  • Pasta Sauce
  • Coffee
  • Tea.

When planning and promoting your Food Drive, make sure that you have this ‘shopping list’ handy!

Christmas Food Drive posters are available to download in pdf format for you to print and place around your organisation or school and on the collection bins or boxes. Simply download our FBSA Christmas Food Drive Posters and Foodbank – 12 Days of Christmas_Poster  We also have flyers about Foodbank and can deliver collection tins for gold coin donations where appropriate.

We find that it is easier if you just get any cardboard box you have available. You can decorate it with your own posters and the list of your most wanted items.

You can drop off your donation at any of our four warehouses across the state, or our Food Hubs. You can find all addresses and trading hours here.

During the months of November and December our warehouse is overloaded with Christmas hamper deliveries, food hub deliveries and getting food to those in need. We would greatly appreciate if you could drop off your donation. In special circumstances we may be able to organise pickup which will be dependent on warehouse/truck availability. We would also require a minimum of a weeks notice.

If you would like a weighted tally of your food drive, we recommend that you label your boxes with your organisation/schools name and the words, ‘please provide a weighted tally’.

We would appreciate if you could please have all Christmas Food Drive donations to Foodbank SA & NT by early to mid December if possible so we have plenty of time to distribute the food before Christmas.

We recommend that you promote your food drive in advance to give those in your organisation/school communities, enough time to organise.

You could also run a number of other activities to support the food drive like coin collections for casual days, sausage sizzles, bake sales etc.

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Food Drive FAQ

Thank you for choosing to support Foodbank SA & NT. We support 150,000+ South and Northern Territorians every month with food relief so your support is very much appreciated.

We would really appreciate if you can let us know that you are running a Food Drive for us, and for how long (we recommend three to four weeks but that is entirely up to you).

Food Drive Registration

Our most wanted items are those who everyone should have in their pantries.

  • Pasta
  • Rice
  • Tuna
  • Pasta Sauces
  • Canned Fruit
  • Canned Veggies
  • Canned Soups
  • Canned Meals
  • Baked Beans
  • Jams & Spreads
  • Long life milk
  • Coffee
  • Breakfast Cereal

When planning and promoting your Food Drive, make sure that you have this ‘shopping list’ handy!

Donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.

We find that it is easier if you just get any cardboard box you have available. You can decorate it with your own posters and the list of your most wanted items.

Food drives are a great way for school communities to come together whilst helping Foodbank to get more food, grocery and personal items to the people who need them.

At Foodbank SA we are all for the community coming together and helping each other out. Registering your Food Drive shows our future generations that there is support for them should they ever need it and helps students to gain an understanding and different perspective of a person’s environment. Register your School Food Drive Here.

Yes we do! Click here to download some posters with our Most Wanted list.

School posters can be found here: School Food Drive and ‘What food to collect?‘.

You can drop off your donation at any of our four warehouses across the state, or our Food Hubs. You can find all addresses and trading hours on our Contacts page.

The duration of your food drive is up to the individual organisation. We generally recommend 2 – 4 weeks. If holding a single day food drive we recommend giving plenty of notice to those involved to ensure success.

For school food drives, if holding on one day, make sure you provide your students and families plenty of notice.

Good luck and thanks for joining the fight against hunger in Australia!

Register your Food Drive

Foodbank Food Drive

All South Australian and Northern Territory organisations and schools are welcome to participate. Food donations will go to your local Foodbank in one of the 13 locations across South Australia and Northern Territory.

All donations are weighed and your organisation or school will be advised how much they have collected.

To register please complete the form below.

You may also like to read through our Food Drive FAQ including access to posters to support your food drive.

Food Drive FAQ

Foodbank SA & NT Food Drive Registration

SA Foodbank SA Food Drive Registration
This can be the organisation name, team name etc.
Main contact for food drive
Main contact for food drive
What date will your Food Drive commence?
What date will your Food Drive end?
By clicking yes you authorise for photos/images taken or provided during this Food Drive to be used by Foodbank for promotional purposes.

Foodbank SA & NT Events

Register to be informed about our events and to receive invitations to our exclusive events.

Foodbank SA & NT Event Sign Ups

By registering for our events we will add you to the Foodbank SA & NT database for event communication.

Our Annual Events

Women of Influence Luncheon

The Women of Influence Luncheon is Foodbank SA’s biggest fundraising event of the year and all proceeds from the event will go to supporting Foodbank SA & NT.

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Westfield Food Drives

During the month of July, Westfield collaborates with Foodbank for their annual “Westfield Food Drive”. Food donation bins were located at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets at Westfield Marion, Tea Tree Plaza and West Lakes.

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Register your Fundraising activity

Thank you for your interest in supporting Foodbank South Australia and Northern Territory in your fundraising activity. We’d love to know more about the fundraising event or activities you are planning.

Please fill out the fundraising application form below and we will endeavour to be in touch within two to three business days.

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If you would like any advice or have any questions prior to completing this form please feel free to call us on 08 8351 1136.