EDUCATING
TO CREATE CHANGE

Our education programs continue to expand across the country, changing the way people think about food, increasing life skills around healthy eating and strengthening community connections.

EDUCATING TO CREATE CHANGE

Our education programs continue to expand across the country, changing the way people think about food, increasing life skills around healthy eating and strengthening community connections.

FEAST

Despite lockdowns, FEAST successfully launched in the ACT and Victoria! To keep teachers and students engaged whilst home schooling, the team offered an online program and special events. The highlight was 350 schools tuning in for an informative school webinar hosted by Ronni as part of National Science Week!

FEAST

Despite lockdowns, FEAST successfully launched in the ACT and Victoria! To keep teachers and students engaged whilst home schooling, the team offered an online program and special events. The highlight was 350 schools tuning in for an informative school webinar hosted by Ronni as part of National Science Week!

21,865

Future change-makers

400

Schools enrolled

782

Teachers trained

21,865

Future change-makers

400

Schools enrolled

782

Teachers trained

Before students completed FEAST, they could not see how they could take climate action beyond switching off the lights at home. Now they are all waste warriors brimming with ideas to fight food waste!

Teacher from
Torrens Primary School

Before students completed FEAST, they could not see how they could take climate action beyond switching off the lights at home. Now they are all waste warriors brimming with ideas to fight food waste!

Teacher from Torrens Primary School

SPECIAL
THANKS

Amway

Bennelong Foundation

Canberra Regional Joint Organisation

CBA

Confoil

Deloitte

Faiman Family

John James Foundation

Newman’s Own Foundation

Norton Rose Fulbright

NSW Canterbury Bankstown Council

NSW City of Ryde Council

Private Family Foundation

Thyne Reid Foundation

NEST

COVID restrictions meant face-to-face NEST sessions were put on hold in NSW, Victoria and ACT. The team adapted to online presentations and grew the NEST Facebook group to share recipe ideas and tips. Their nutritional knowledge and skills were utilised to support food relief, advising on both cooked meals and Kids Hampers. NEST education materials have been translated into ten languages, providing a breakthrough for many participants with English as a second language. And a youth pilot program is underway – watch this space!

NEST

COVID restrictions meant face-to-face NEST sessions were put on hold in NSW, Victoria and  ACT. The team adapted to online presentations and grew the NEST Facebook group to share recipe ideas and tips. Their nutritional knowledge and skills were utilised to support food relief, advising on both cooked meals and Kids Hampers. NEST education materials have been translated into ten languages, providing a breakthrough for many participants with English as a second language. And a youth pilot program is underway – watch this space!

37

Programs

144

NEST sessions

350

Participants

40

Charities

37

Programs

144

NEST sessions

350

Participants

40

Charities

A lovely lady had come along to all the NEST sessions, but rarely joined the conversations. When I shared the translated resources in Arabic, her eyes lit up! All the content she’d learnt fell into place, she was so happy and grateful.

Rachel Mackey
NEST Coordinator
Queensland

A lovely lady had come along to all the NEST sessions, but rarely joined the conversations. When I shared the translated resources in Arabic, her eyes lit up! All the content she’d learnt fell into place, she was so happy and grateful.

Rachel Mackey
NEST Coordinator Queensland

SPECIAL
THANKS

ACT Health

AON

Appin Walker Group

Bayside Council

City of Melbourne

City of Sydney

Hume City Council

North Sydney Council

Parramatta Council

South Gippsland Shire Council

Woollahra City Council

NOURISH

There was plenty of action for semester 1 with graduation ceremonies in all three locations, including Nourish Newcastle’s first cohort of students. The impact of COVID lockdowns in NSW sadly meant semester 2 classes in Sydney and Newcastle were put on hold. Nourish Adelaide successfully delivered both semesters with a total of 19 graduates!

The level of care from the Nourish team, combined with new found skills, often provide life-changing transformation for many students who continue to stay in touch years after graduating.

NOURISH

There was plenty of action for semester 1 with graduation ceremonies in all three locations, including Nourish Newcastle’s first cohort of students. The impact of COVID lockdowns in NSW sadly meant semester 2 classes in Sydney and Newcastle were put on hold. Nourish Adelaide successfully delivered both semesters with a total of 19 graduates!

The level of care from the Nourish team, combined with new found skills, often provide life-changing transformation for many students who continue to stay in touch years after graduating.

33

Nourish graduates

11

Returned to study/training

11

Employed/actively seeking work

192

Total graduates since 2015

33

Nourish graduates

11

Returned to study/training

11

Employed/actively seeking work

192

Total graduates since 2015

Since joining Nourish, my son has just opened up and started enjoying life again. He bonded with the whole team, and it brings tears to my eyes seeing the changes in him.

Mother of a 24 year old
Nourish student

Since joining Nourish, my son has just opened up and started enjoying life again. He bonded with the whole team, and it brings tears to my eyes seeing the changes in him.

Mother of a 24 year old Nourish student

SPECIAL
THANKS

19 On-Green Community Centre

Baillie Family Foundation

Career Employment Group

Chef Works Australia

FWH Foundation

IHG

James N Kirby Foundation

Lendlease

Matana Foundation

Morialta Trust

PCYC Lake Macquarie

TAFE NSW

NOURISHING OUR COUNTRY

OzHarvest HQ is based in Sydney, with eight offices, four hubs and seven volunteer run regional chapters across the country.  Click on the map to see our local impact in each location. The number of meals delivered includes purchased food, cooked meals and hampers where applicable.

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