To date, over 197,000
kilos of food have been saved!
That's a total
of over 394,000 meal equivalents,
distributed
to over 30 agencies around WA.
Happy New Year and welcome to our
new look newsletter!
2012 was a huge first year for Food Rescue, our presence in the community is starting to be felt and we know this from the level of enquiries from new volunteers, charities, and not to mention the wonderful letters of thanks from the people receiving our food. We truly are a community based organisation because without all of you, all the people who support us in so many different ways, we wouldn’t be able to continue to do what we do. And what we do, saving food from landfill and providing healthy, wholesome food for people going without food is absolutely crucial!
Late last year our friends at Food Wise launched a new website which has very interesting and need to know facts about food waste. Food Rescue is very proud to be involved and now listed on their website as a go to charity for saving food in WA! Click on the link to go to the website:
http://foodwise.com.au/food-waste/business-food-waste/food-charities/
In November, Channel 7 contacted us to collect a whole pantry of food from the set of 'My Kitchen Rules' in Perth after they had done the filming. We collected over 500 kg's of excellent produce that our agencies were wrapped to recieve!
On the 16th of November Channel 9 News Perth aired a story on Food Rescue and our supermarket collections. We’re so grateful to Shopfront for allowing the crew to get a glimpse and also the people who came forward to be interviewed. And of course we were so lucky to have such an awesome team of volunteers who were helping and happy to be filmed. The story has created so much interest and has been fantastic with helping us get our name out there. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our blog on our website.
http://foodrescue.blogspot.com.au/
Special thanks to Ausdrill for sending out a professional photographer to capture the sorting process by our volunteers for their Ausbits magazine! Special mention goes to Hugh Brown who did an amazing job, check out Hugh’s photos at our facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/FoodRescue
On the 10th of December Food Rescue held a small Christmas party to say thanks to our wonderful volunteers and supporters. We are very grateful to Wrays for hosting the event for us and donating the catering and venue. A special mention to Tana and Julie from Wrays for organising the function and having everything running so smoothly. Thanks to all who attended and here are a couple of pics of the night.
Left to right: Picture 1 - Don Hancey (Ambassador Chef), Samantha Soley (Food Rescue GM)
Picture 2 - John Armstrong, Brian Russell (Volunteer), Samantha Soley, Nick Ringrose.
Picture 3 - Kristy Caruso (Volunteer), Anne Thoume (Volunteer).
Picture 4 - Mike Godrich (Food Rescue Board), Gary Cox (Wrays)
Last but not least! A HUGE thanks to Inspired Money for joining the Food Rescue support crew by providing a very timely Christmas donation. Thanks so much for helping us feed people at Christmas time!
Food Rescue’s wish list!
If you have any of the following which you’re not using and are happy to give them away to a very good cause then please think of us!
I Laminator
I Vacuum cleaner
I Walkie Stacker
Please circulate this email to friends and family who might be interested to hear about the work we are doing.
On behalf of the board and the team at Food Rescue, thank you so much for your support in 2012 and we look forward to be working with you all to save food and feed people in 2013!
