A Smarter, Fairer Way to Share Food

The Illawarra Regional Food Hub will become a central place where surplus food is collected, sorted, stored and redistributed to local food relief organisations.

Our mission is simple: good food should feed people, not landfills.

One central hub. Dozens of partners. Thousands fed.

The Hub:

• Collects surplus food from growers, supermarkets, hospitality venues and wholesalers.
• Sorts, stores and redistributes food safely using best-practice cold-chain systems.
• Coordinates with relief agencies for scheduled pickups and deliveries.
• Reduces logistics duplication, saving time and money across the sector.
• Ensures stable supply of nutritious, culturally appropriate food to communities.

It’s undeniable that our region needs this facility.

To reach more people and prevent perfectly edible food from going to waste, we need to think differently about how we operate. Right now, we’re constrained by infrastructure – storage, chilled and frozen capacity, and reliable transport.

That transport piece is crucial. It’s the missing link that will allow us to operate at the scale our community deserves.