38% of local households are struggling to access food, while good food goes to waste every day. Along with our partners, we’re building the Illawarra Regional Food Hub to connect surplus with need and feed our community. We need your help.
We’re aiming to raise $137,000 to launch Stage 1 by the end of October 2026, funding essential infrastructure like a refrigerated van, storage, and a dedicated space to operate from day one.
Join us and help make sure no one goes hungry.
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.
The Hub:
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.
Food is being wasted. Families are going hungry. The system is stretched.
Across the Illawarra region:
The Food Hub fills this gap by providing shared infrastructure that individual organisations cannot afford to build alone.
If you’d like to be involved in this project, please send an email to our Food Hub Project Manager at melinda@healthycities.org.au. To help us get this project off the ground, you can be part of the solution by donating.
If you require immediate food relief, please view our Low Cost & Free Meals Directory to discover your nearest food relief service.
