Foodbank Queensland
Charity in Brisbane

End year alone, we provided adequate food for over 60 million meals. Foodbank is a nondenominational, nonprofit organization which acts as a pantry to the charities and community groups who feed the hungry. It was first established in 1992 in MSW and now has a presence in every state and the Northern Territory with distribution centers in all state capitals as well as a number of regional centers. Foodbank is a conduit between the food industry’s surplus food and the welfare sector’s need. The FAA reports that around the world one billion tonnes of food goes to waste every year while one billion people go hungry Featured Video. 30 years’ experience in banking and financial services. Over 40 years’ experience in the international food and beverage sector including business and brand development, marketing and distribution in mature and developing markets. International domestic experience in marketing and the food industry at chair and CEO level. This includes product that is out of specification, accessible to date code, has untrue labeling or damaged packaging as healthy as additional stock and deleted lines. We gather the food or food companies deliver their donations to our warehouses around Australia last year alone they provided 33 million kilograms of food and groceries. So, in a collaborative supply program we partner with food producers and manufacturers who donate ingredients and services in order to produce, process, package and transport essential items such as breakfast cereals, pasta and sauce and tinned fruit and vegetables. Every year many Australian food companies, with the help of Foodbank, divert thousands of tonnes of food from going to landfill and give it a fresh purpose to help feed people who would otherwise go hungry. That includes the water and energy that went into all the steps from paddock to plate including production, processing, storage, refrigeration and transportation of the food. Foodbank’s first priority is to provide food to people who would otherwise go without. Foodbank works with its food industry partners and member agencies to provide well food choices to those seeking food assistance. We aim to monitor the nutrient quality of our supplies and, wherever possible, communicate the importance of appropriate nutrition to our donors and member agencies. Foodbank is a elated member of the Global Foodbanking Network an international organization dedicated to developing food banking around the world. Mary’s Basilica with his idea of creating a central location where social service agencies could take needed food for their clients at no cost. From here the concept of food banking spread around the world future to Australia in 1992. Foodbank has released a Christmas song to elevate much required funds to feed the two million Australians who rely on food relief each year. We will do this by collecting surplus, salvaged and donated food and grocery products from food producers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers and distributing it to charities and community groups to disseminate to people in need. This year’s awards celebrated what Foodbank and the food industry are capable to attain together and acknowledged the extraordinary individual contributions that make possible the everyday labor of the largest food relief organization. A reelected Turnbull Government will help local food rescue charities decrease costs and expand their services by providing 1.2 million over two years. Helping to fight hunger in our rural communities.