New Zealand Food Network

Some of our team had a great time recently volunteering at House of Science NZ in South Auckland. This NZ charity is focused on improving scientific literacy among Kiwi kids with tools like these Science Resource Kits! 🧪🔬 These awesome kits have everything a teacher needs to create fun, hands on lessons for their students across a range of topics. Even our team were keen to get stuck into some experiments, despite being there to help re pack them! It was great to support the important work that House of Science are doing for our future generations, while also learning how we can improve our volunteering experience in the NZFN warehouse. Thank you for having us! 💚 You can learn more about House of Science at their website: https://houseofscience.nz/ #volunteering #makinganimpact #communitysupport

How about this cool initiative from our donor Bidfood New Zealand! ❄ (yes, pun intended) In addition to helping Bidfood make a difference with their surplus food, we've also been helping them repurpose these handy little ice packs! With their fresh salmon deliveries from the South Island creating a stream of inbound ice, Bidfood decided the packs could go on to serve their purpose elsewhere. Tapping into our nationwide network again, Bidfood now consolidate the ice packs for us to collect whenever we're next stopping by to collect their surplus food donations. From there, we redistribute the packs to certain Food Hubs, who use them to keep food parcels chilled during deliveries. This initiative really helps the reach of food support, as some recipients such as the elderly and disabled don’t have the means to collect the kai themselves 🙏 “The ice packs were very welcomed. We have used them in food parcels to keep them chilled on trips. Very handy... especially during the warmer months.” - Helen Holt, Operations Manager at Have a Heart Charitable Trust Through initiatives like this, within 12 months Bidfood New Zealand reduced their landfill from 12 Tonne right down to 1 Tonne and have successfully continued that journey for the last 4 years! We're grateful to help them along this journey, as well as to learn new solutions to share along the way ♻️ #donation #sustainability #communitysupport #makingadifference #foodrescue

Joining forces to combat menstrual inequity! Since 2019, our partners, The Period Place, have been advocating for stigma-free conversations, menstrual health education, and access to period products for Kiwis in need. Find out below how we're making it easy for them to reach families nationwide while freeing up valuable time for their small but mighty team 💪 Read full story here: https://lnkd.in/gK2TfjzY #communitysupport #PeriodPositivity #MenstrualWellbeing #donor #makingadifference

Right now, our Food Hubs are facing a critical shortage.   While food rescue often sees peaks and troughs, we’re currently in a deep trough with very little stock available to support the increasing demand in the community.   If you work for or know of a food business with any surplus stock ready to be cleared, now is the perfect time to make a difference. Your contribution can go a long way in helping us fill this gap and feed more people in need.   Over the past 12 months, along with our Food Hubs, we've distributed 3.9 million kilos of surplus food, providing the equivalent of 8.6 million meals. However, we urgently need more donations to continue supporting our communities.   If you can help, please reach out to [email protected]   Any contribution makes a real difference, and as always, we are incredibly grateful for your ongoing support 💚 #foodrescue #foodinsecurity #foodwaste #foodsecurity #communitysupport #donate

This smiley bunch from Ulti Group packed almost 3 tonnes of rescued produce for Kiwis in need last week! 🥝🙌 We love showing enthusiastic groups like this what food rescue is all about, and getting them stuck into some team building mahi that has a real impact. For Ulti Group, that impact will be felt by multiple communities in NZ thanks to their hard work and support. Ka pai team!💪 #volunteering #foodsecurity #foodwaste #communitysupport #makinganimpact

Another real life example of how our food donors and hubs are supporting Kiwis through tough times. There are many situations in which we all need a helping hand, and with your donations to NZFN, more Kiwis like this food parcel recipient can receive the food support they need 💚 Thank you everyone for working with us to get good food to where it's needed most! ♻️ #foodsupport #foodinsecurity #foodsecurity #foodrescue #foodwaste #CommunitySupport

More fresh citrus for the South! 🍋🍊   This annual initiative from the Whangarei Lions Club involves members, volunteers and other local Lions Clubs coming together to gather and send surplus citrus fruit from the Northland region down to the South Island, where it doesn't grow so well. This year, we're stoked to be helping them nourish southern communities once again by distributing 72 boxes and over 1.2 tonnes of their citrus fruit donation from our Christchurch DC to our Food Hubs in the South Island.   We're truly grateful to partner with the Whangarei Lions Clubs as they continue to make an impact in our South Island communities! 🙌 #foodsecurity #foodrescue #foodsupport #communitysupport #makinganimpact

The impact made by Service Foods this year has been felt in communities throughout NZ, and we're proud to partner with them to help make it happen! Simplifying the donation process for food businesses and spreading their impact far and wide is something we love doing, and with the initiative of great partners like this, together, we can make a real difference for Kiwis in need ♻️🙌 #foodsecurity #foodwaste #foodinsecurity #foodrescue #socialimpact #communitysupport

A massive 25 tonnes of kai packed and prepped for Kiwis in need thanks to our volunteers in August! 💪 Last month we were gifted the time and mahi of an awesome volunteer army made up of staff from Sanitarium, Fonterra, Mars, Mars United Commerce, Enviro NZ, Mastercard, Kellanova. On average, each person packed more than 24 boxes of rescued food to be sent to our Food Hubs, a real impact for the community that we hope everyone is proud of! 👏 Thank you to all for your hard work and dedication! We couldn't operate the way we do without our volunteers, and the impact of those past and present continues to be felt by communities throughout NZ! 💚 #volunteering #foodrescue #foodwaste #foodsecurity #csr #communityimpact

Jack is back....again! 👑 A massive thanks to Crown Lift Trucks New Zealand, who kindly donated and dropped off another brand-new PTH50 pallet jack to NZFN via their give-away at the recent Cold Storage Association Conference in Queenstown! We were fortunate to have the Crown pallet jack prize from last years “Jack is Back” campaign passed on to us by the actual winner of the prize, a generous team member from Big Chill Distribution, and it's certainly had a lot of use in our Auckland DC since. This year.... the exact same winner was drawn from the hat! They decided to show the same kindness as the previous year and gifted us the pallet jack again to help our cause, this time for our Christchurch DC🙏 We're hugely grateful for this support, and we're stoked to have this reliable piece of equipment now in both of our warehouses, moving kai through our network! ♻ Thank you to everyone involved! #donation #foodrescue #makingadifference #makinganimpact