Food For Families. Thanks to you.

Food For Families is a way to come together with your community to donate food and help deliver real support to families doing it tough.

Food For Families

Fill a box. Create real support for families doing it tough.

Your donated box or bag filled with non-perishable food, like canned soup, pasta and baked beans, plus household essentials such as personal hygiene and cleaning products, helps feed and support families when it’s needed most.

At Uniting, we work in partnership with local people, schools, early learning centres, workplaces and community groups to deliver real, practical change in our communities.

By working together to keep our emergency relief pantries stocked with a variety of food and essentials, we’re able to offer more people dignity, choice and support when times are tough and bills keep rising.

Every item, every box, every bag – it all adds up to creating meaningful change, together.

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Why support Uniting?

Uniting is the community services organisation of the Uniting Church, supporting people across Victoria and Tasmania to reduce the impact of poverty, trauma and disadvantage.

We stand with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, celebrate diversity, and welcome people of every background, faith, ability, gender identity, and sexuality.

When you support Food For Families, you’re helping us provide inclusive. non-discriminatory services and giving families the choice, respect, and care everyone deserves.

Uniting’s Food For Families program helped Anne, a new mother fleeing violence, regain stability, confidence, and a sense of home by providing essential food and practical support.

“It covered my needs and my baby’s needs – milk, nappies, even little things like crackers that children love” - Anne

Victoria Police’s Women in Policing Committee joined Uniting’s Food For Families, rallying colleagues to donate and support locals facing hardship.

"We were drawn to the opportunity to give back locally...in Docklands, while also providing the flexibility to organise a collection in a way that suited us best." - WIPLC representatives

For over a decade, Ratio Consultants has partnered with Uniting’s Food For Families, donating food and essentials to support people in need across Victoria and Tasmania.

"We're fortunate to be able to put food on our table, but at the same time, at the blink of an eye, everything could change" - Hayley, Associate at Ratio

Jess has been part of Food For Families for the past six to seven years. For Jess, what sets Food For Families a part is its tangible impact. She knows that times are tight for everyone, but she believes that even small acts can make a real difference.

"No one in Australia should have to make the decision between paying bills and putting food on the table." - Jess, Food For Families participant

Over the last 3 years alone, PEGS has collected 170 boxes of food and essential items for families and individuals in need. This equates to around 2,550kgs of items valued at almost $12,000.

“I think Food For Families is a great program and a great cause...I highly encourage all students...to take part. Everything counts, everything matters.” - Ethan, student

Over the past four years Access Group Solutions (AGS) has donated close to 1,500 kgs of food to Uniting’s Food For Families program. Being so closely connected to their local communities, giving back has always been important to AGS.

“The program is a fantastic way to engage our people in team building exercises without them even being aware of it,” - Rebecca, Access Group Solutions