Regional Food Donation Coordinator Program Update – July 2025
In 2024, Healthy Cities Australia was proud to spearhead a Regional Food Coordinator program as the very first region in NSW to do so, thanks to generous funding from the NSW Environmental Protection Authority. We are fortunate to have a food rescue and relief sector that collectively rescues a vast amount of food to feed […]
Regional Food Donation Coordinator Program Update – March 2025
In 2024, Healthy Cities Illawarra was proud to spearhead a Regional Food Coordinator program as the very first region in NSW to do so, thanks to generous funding from the NSW Environmental Protection Authority. We are fortunate to have a food rescue and relief sector that collectively rescues a vast amount of food to feed […]
Regional Food Donation Coordinator Program Update – January 2025
In 2024, Healthy Cities Illawarra was proud to spearhead a Regional Food Coordinator program as the very first region in NSW to do so, thanks to generous funding from the NSW Environmental Protection Authority. We are fortunate to have a food rescue and relief sector that collectively rescues a vast amount of food to feed […]
Regional Food Donation Coordinator Pilot
In September 2022, the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) engaged Healthy Cities Illawarra (HCI) to undertake a pilot project to ascertain the value and merit of a Regional Food Donation Coordinator (RFDC). The RFDC’s role was defined as strengthening connections and increasing collaboration across the food rescue and relief sector to increase rescued food donations […]
Together: Feeding people, fighting waste
Did you know that 1 in 5 Australian households (21%)1 experienced severe food insecurity in 2021/2? This translates to 65,000 Illawarra households not being able to access food that meets their health and cultural needs. Meanwhile, tonnes of edible food ends up in landfill every week from the food industry. In the space between these […]
The Role of Australian Local Governments in Creating a Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Food System – workshop outcomes
On Friday 19 November 2021, there was a workshop hosted on ‘Healthy, sustainable, equitable food systems: The role of local government’. The event attracted over 300 registrations with 150 people joining online on the day. The audience included representatives from academia and research, local government (staff and elected members), state government departments and agencies, community […]
Guide to Food Donations – Case Study
Food Fairness Illawarra and Healthy Cities Illawarra, thanks to the NSW Government Waste Less Recycle More initiative, brought together food rescue relief stakeholders to develop an interactive web-based guide for food donations in the Illawarra with an objective to increase food donations and divert food waste from landfill. We have developed a case study surrounding […]
Urban Agriculture Month in the Illawarra!
As part of Urban Agriculture Month 2021, Food Fairness Illawarra is coordinating a range of workshops, open gardens and tours of urban farms, gardens and verges across the Illawarra during the month of April. Urban Agriculture Month (UAM) is co-ordinated yearly by Sustain: The Australian Food Network, a think and do network connecting passionate people like […]
Food Security In The Illawarra During COVID-19: Case Study
Healthy Cities Illawarra (HCI) and Food Fairness Illawarra (FFI) brought together local food relief stakeholders to enable a coordinated response to the significant increased demand for food relief with an already overwhelmed food relief system during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. We have developed a case study surrounding our intersectoral work during this period.
Hidden Harvest: Art of Food Waste
Celebrating our local community through art and food. Hidden Harvest presents a jam-packed schedule of events & delicious delicacies that celebrate our local community through art & food. Hidden Harvest is hosting the ‘Art of Food Waste’ exhibition in February this year! Celebrating the talents of over 15 local artists who work with food as […]