Tours and Speakers

At Foodbank SA & NT, we are passionate about raising awareness of food insecurity and hunger. The more people we can inform about the issue, the closer we’ll get to a solution – where no person in Australia goes without food.

Come and take a tour of our warehouse to learn about the issue of hunger and see, firsthand, the amounts of food required to support those in need in South Australia.

Tours generally take up to 30 minutes and can be tailored to the demographic of your group.

Alternatively, you can request a speaker for your next meeting or event. Our team would love the opportunity to share the Foodbank story with your group.

If you would like to organise a tour of our warehouse or request a speaker, please complete and submit the registration form below or contact our office for more information.

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Meet the people powering Foodbank

Join us for Foodbank’s flagship fundraising event

You are invited to join us for the Foodbank SA & NT’s Women of Influence Luncheon, supporting Foodbank’s mission to end hunger in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

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. Every ticket sold will put more than 50 meals on the table of families in need in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

In addition, you can support us at the Women of Influence Luncheon by bidding on some fantastic silent auction items, and making donations for your chance to win some great prizes too!

 

Friday, 9 May 2025
12pm – 3pm
Ridley Centre, Royal Adelaide Showground
$150 per ticket or $1,400 per table of 10
(including 3 course lunch and beverages)

 

Guests will enjoy a three-course meal and hear from inspirational South Australian Women as we celebrate their achievements in their respective fields. Come and hear from our wonderful guest speakers and listen to our panel discussion.

GUEST SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS:

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Sonya Feldhoff

Panel Discussion Host, ABC Radio Adelaide

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In her more than 25 years in radio, Sonya Feldhoff has switched between the roles of journalist, producer and presenter. Sonya grew up in Adelaide, the daughter of 1960s German immigrants.

Sonya began her radio career with a cadetship at FIVEaa. Various radio roles followed and then, in 2007, Sonya made the jump from commercial radio to the ABC, where she hosted Afternoons for more than a decade before taking over the Breakfast slot in 2024 with Jules Schiller.

A consummate interviewer, Sonya is passionate about sharing stories from the South Australian community and beyond.


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Anna Wiley

Asset President Copper SA, BHP

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Anna joined BHP in 2017 and was appointed Asset President of Copper South Australia in February 2024.Prior to this role, Anna was Vice President Planning and Technical, where she led a future facing portfolio of decarbonisation, cultural heritage, and early phase growth activities across our Australian operations.Anna has over 20 years of experience in the mining sector and has a diverse work background in operational
leadership, business improvement, commercial transactions and capital projects covering multiple
commodities including coal, copper and iron ore.Before joining BHP, she held a variety of senior operational and functional leadership positions with Rio Tinto
including as General Manager Tom Price and Marandoo Mines, Head of Business Improvement Kennecott Utah Copper and as Business Development Executive in Rio Tinto’s London office. Anna holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and a Bachelor of Commerce from Monash University, Victoria.


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Caroline Rhodes

CEO, Primary Producers

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Caroline Rhodes is a leading advocate for the state’s farm sector, as the inaugural CEO of peak body, Primary Producers SA. She brings more than two decades of agribusiness experience in industry policy, stakeholder management and regulatory affairs. She is passionate about improving the economic and social wellbeing of farming families.

Caroline has proudly served on the Foodbank SA/NT board for the past eleven years and readily applies her professional background in public policy, to strategic and risk management functions at board and committee level. She is also a non-executive director of the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority, SA Cricket Association, and the Australian Farm Institute.

With a lifelong interest in the rural sector, Caroline holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from the University of Adelaide, a Master of Agribusiness from the University of Melbourne, and is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program. She is an active member of her community in the Adelaide Hills, including serving as Vice President of the Onkaparinga Pony Club.


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Maria Palumbo

CEO, Junction Australia

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Maria is one of the most accomplished, authentic and passionate forces within the State’s housing and community services sector.

Her foresight, courage and determination to drive positive, long-term impact has been crucial to improving the lives of South Australians.

Over the past 25 years, she has held senior leadership positions across Government and the community sector – but her sphere of influence stretches far wider.

As an Executive within State Government, she delivered strategy, funding and regulation of community and affordable housing, as well as service reforms in homelessness and domestic violence. She also spearheaded the largest transfer of housing in SA to community housing providers that transformed the sector’s capacity as growth developers.

 

As CEO of Common Ground Adelaide, Maria drove and oversaw the development of accommodation and support services for hundreds of South Australians including the development of several ground-breaking projects in the city and Port Augusta.

Since being appointed CEO of Junction in 2017, she has led a significant period of expansion comprising the establishment of Junction’s $500m affordable housing pipeline.

Maria was an SA Telstra Business Woman of the Year finalist in 2019 and won UDIA SA’s Women in Leadership Award in 2021.

She is a former Non-Executive Director of Homestart and, also, Foodbank SA/NT. She currently serves on the Property Council of South Australia’ divisional council.


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HOSTS:

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Lucy Hinton

Event MC, Foodbank Ambassador

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Lucy is a senior leader in PwC Australia’s Corporate Affairs team. She started her career as a broadcast journalist with Nine News, working across the Melbourne and Adelaide newsrooms. Following a short stint in South Australian politics, Lucy moved to the corporate world, joining PwC’s Media Relations team in Sydney. She is a proud Foodbank Ambassador and contributor to Foodbank’s annual Women with Influence Luncheon.


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Special addresses will be provided by Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson, Governor of South Australia and The Honourable Nat Cook, Minister of Human Services.

 

Have a look at some of the highlights of last years Women of influence luncheon:

If you would like more information on the Women of Influence Luncheon please contact the Foodbank SA & NT team:

P: 08 8351 1136
E: marketing@foodbanksa.org.au

We would love to thank our Women of Influence Sponsors:

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Foodbank EP Mobile Food Hub Calendar

Below you will find the Foodbank Eyre Peninsula Mobile Food Hub Calendar. Any amends to this calendar can be seen on this page, including cancellations or time changes.

Foodbank RAA Regional Mobile Food Hub Calendar

Below you will find the Foodbank RAA Regional Mobile Food Hub Calendar. Any amends to this calendar can be seen on this page, including cancellations or time changes.

Foodbank RAA Metro Mobile Food Hub Calendar

Below you will find the Foodbank RAA Metro Mobile Food Hub Calendar. Any amends to this calendar can be seen on this page, including cancellations or time changes.

Foodbank Food Hubs

Foodbank Food Hubs offer your clients a dignified shopping experience. They are set up to resemble a general store. We encourage people to choose healthy food options by providing free fruit and vegetables. Affordable recipe packs and ready made meals are available for those willing to learn how to cook or unable to cook.

Our aim is to assist local welfare agencies to provide more food to people requiring emergency food relief. We understand that issues such as lack of storage space, time, volunteers or refrigeration can often limit the amount and type of food that you can offer your clients. We hope that this distribution model will at least partly address some of these issues.

SHOPPING AT OUR FOOD HUB

Welfare agencies who are customer members of Foodbank SA & NT can provide their clients with vouchers that can be redeemed at the Foodbank Food Hub sites. Food Hub customers must present their valid voucher and provide identification each time they visit.

We offer pantry foods, meat, frozen foods, personal hygiene products and household cleaning products. Vegetables, fruit and bread are offered free with a voucher.

REFERRAL AGENCIES

To shop out our food hub you will need a referral voucher. Referral vouchers are accessed from agencies we work with. To access a list of referring agencies for a Food Hub in your area click below.

FOOD HUB LOCATIONS

Foodbank Food Hubs are located in Christies Beach, St Marys (formerly Edwardstown), Davoren Park and Woodville and, regionally in Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Whyalla, Alice Springs, Ceduna and Darwin.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
For further information about Foodbank SA & NT Food Hubs, you can contact us, phone 08 8351 1136 or email us at reception@foodbanksa.org.au.

Advocacy

At Foodbank, we’re serious about giving a voice to food insecure Australians, advocating at local, state/territory, national and global
levels.

We have excellent working relationships with a range of peak bodies, from the National Farmers’ Federation and the Australian Food and Grocery Council to the Australian Council of Social Service, to ensure our research and expert commentary and advice can be woven into policy debates, conferences, media commentary and activities on the ground.

To inquire about securing a Foodbank spokesperson for your next event, please email admin@foodbank.org.au.

Government Relations

We work with all levels of government to ensure the policy and legislative environment does not hinder our ability to get essential food relief to the communities who need it most – regardless of geography.

We work closely with federal senators, members of parliament and government departments, as well as state/territory governments, to ensure the issue of food insecurity in Australia is front of mind and understood.

The annual release of the Foodbank Hunger Report provides an ideal opportunity for us to engage in advocacy at both the Federal and State/Territory level, providing expert commentary on the prevalence of food insecurity, the key demographics affected, the root causes, and how well the demand for food relief is being met. We also regularly host our political leaders at our warehouses, showing them first-hand the scale of our operations and the growing need for food relief.

Given the complexity of the causes of, and solutions to food insecurity in Australia, we have been advocating for the development of a National Food Security Strategy, led by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. This strategy would see a whole of government approach, ideally with bi-partisan support – to what has become a systemic problem in Australia. More information on Foodbank Funding and Policy Priorities.

Each year, Foodbank Australia lodges a pre-budget submission to highlight the funding needs of the food relief sector.

More information on food insecurity in Foodbank’s National Food Security Strategy Case

On the Road to Ending Hunger

One of the greatest challenges in getting food to people who need it is transport. The costs to collect and deliver the food to our charity partners can be prohibitive without external transport support.

Here at Foodbank, we work with transport partners and third-party logistics providers to source and distribute more than 45.6 million kilograms of food and groceries every year. Our partners support us with pro-bono and low-bono support, ensuring we can move as much food and groceries as possible.

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What we still need

 

» Transport assistance: 30% of our donated volume goes to regional and remote areas. We desperately need transport assistance into these areas to help us increase our support in these communities where there is a big hunger problem. 

» Temperature-controlled freight: Again, we desperately need temperature-controlled freight to help us transport high-demand food like fruit, vegetables, meat and frozen products. 

» Reduce fuel costs: We and the communities we help would benefit greatly from the support of fuel cards, which could be an excellent opportunity for a potential fuel partner to be acknowledged with their logo on our fleet.

» Fleet maintenance: The less we directly spend on maintaining vehicles, the more we have left to source and distribute essential food and groceries to vulnerable Australians.

How you can help

 

We seek the support of the food industry, transport partners and other supply chain stakeholders for essential transport support. Even if you cannot assist directly, we welcome your help advocating for these crucial functions within your network.

Is your organisation able to help contribute to fighting hunger in Australia? We’d love to hear from you! Contact our Supply Chain Team today to discuss.

We are fortunate to be supported by the Logistics industry in several ways;

» Primary Connect, Team Global Express, Linfox, Metcash and Australia Post allow us to leverage their national ambient networks by utilising spare linehaul (interstate) freight capacity. This allows us to accept and share a greater variety of products across our national network while minimising operational and cost impacts on our partners.

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» NewCold, Americold and Lineage support with pro-bono storage, making the donation process simple for our National Donations and also support with overflow storage for large donations.

» CHEP, Loscam, and Pact ReUse support with pooling equipment across the nation, helping us to keep the management of pooling equipment simple for our donors.

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Working with wholesalers and retailers

Our generous partners are essential in helping us achieve our mission of delivering the most food to the most Australians in need in the most efficient and effective way. We simply couldn’t provide the assistance we do without the generosity and support of our wonderful partners from right across the food and grocery industry, including our wholesale and retail partners.

We work with the retailers and wholesalers at a DC/warehouse level to capture donations of ambient, chilled and fresh foods and personal and household products. We receive products for all sorts of reasons;

  • Out of specification,
  • Close to expiry
  • Damaged or incorrect packaging or underweight,
  • Deleted product,
  • Surplus to requirement,
  • Private label

If it’s still fit for purpose, chances are we’ll accept it.

Some ways retailers or wholesalers help:

  • Provide Foodbank with initial introductions to suppliers.
  • Approve private label manufacturers and suppliers to donate products to Foodbank.
  • Allow Foodbank to use spare freight capacity within its national network. This helps us share product across our national network.

Is your organisation able to help contribute to fighting hunger in Australia? We’d love to hear from you! Contact our Supply Chain Team today to discuss.

DO YOU HAVE FOOD TO DONATE?