Communities at Work

Our Community Pantries rely on the generosity and commitment of local organisations, businesses and community groups.

We are incredibly grateful to our community partners for their donations, resources, expertise and free and discounted products and services. This aid helps us provide essential and practical support to people experiencing hardship across the Canberra region.

Together, we are making an even bigger impact in the lives of thousands of individuals and families!

	SecondBite/FareShare SecondBite rescues surplus food across Australia and shares it with communities in need. Through their FareShare kitchens and farms, they grow fresh produce and cook rescued ingredients into nutritious, ready-to-eat meals — helping ensure people get the food they need, when and how they need it.
	Dignity Dignity’s food relief meals are provided to partnering community organisations around Australia and are a mix of ready-made meals and homemade meals, prepared by our ever-growing team of student, corporate and individual volunteers.
	OzHarvest OzHarvest is committed to helping vulnerable people by delivering delicious, nutritious food from food donors to charities across Australia that feed those in need.
	Share the Dignity Share the Dignity partners with a wide network of organisations across Australia that are dedicated to supporting people experiencing menstrual inequity, homelessness, domestic violence, and financial hardship.
	RSPCA ACT No pet should go hungry, and no one should have to choose between feeding themselves or feeding their pets.  RSPCA ACT’s Community Pet Pantry distributes pet food to community organisations in the ACT who operate food pantries and provide direct community outreach to vulnerable Canberrans.  Through this program, we support families and their pets who are doing it tough.
	Box Divvy Donates fresh produce for our Community Pantries. At Box Divvy, food isn’t just something you buy – it’s something we grow, share and care about together. By connecting you directly with local farmers, we cut out the middlemen, keep prices fair, and deliver food that’s days fresh, not weeks old.
	Foodbank Foodbank is Australia’s largest food relief organisation. It distributes essential food and groceries to its network of more than 2,929 frontline charities nationally.
	COGS (Canberra Organic Growers Society) Donates fresh produce and collects compost at our Community Pantries. The Canberra Organic Growers Society Inc (COGS) is a non-profit organisation started in 1977 with the aim of providing a forum for organic growers to exchange information and encourage the adoption of organic growing methods.
	Canberra Environment Centre The Canberra Environment Centre is a not-for-profit, non-government, environmental education centre empowering people to create a more sustainable future for the Canberra community, by supporting lifelong behavioural change. They collect food waste for composting from our sites for sustainability.