Bear & Bean
46/48 Little Ryrie St
Geelong
5222 2300
K-Rock 95.5
Thank You to K Rock 95.5 for supporting the 2020 Feed Geelong Appeal
Moorabool Street
Geelong
VIC
5223 1955
bay 93.9
Thank You to Bay 93.9 for supporting the 2020 Feed Geelong Appeal
Moorabool Street
Geelong
VIC
5229 2939
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Food for Thought Research Food for Thought Report, August 2021 Exploring the capacities and responses of the community and emergency food sector in the Geelong region Volunteer Resources Food for Thought Report, August 2021 Exploring the capacities and responses of the community...
Read moreCommunity Choice
The Give Where You Live Foundation has been delivering an emergency relief voucher program since the early 1990s to give people in the Geelong community experiencing crisis access to basic necessities such as food, material aid, and support for prescriptions.
In 2021, thanks to support from the State Government, the Foundation was able to further strengthen and expand this support, to what is now the Community Choice program.
With the support from the Percy Baxter Charitable Trust, the Foundation distributes around $130,000 annually through the Community Choice program, supporting over 7,500 people annually.
Community Choice gives people in our community access to essentials like food from the Geelong Food Relief Centre, prescription medications form local partner pharmacies, furniture from Encompass Homestart, and work clothing from Encompass Ready Start.
Community Choice has evolved the voucher program to create greater choice, diversity and access to emergency assistance. Ultimately handing that choice and control back to the members of our community who are seeking help.
Through the Community Choice, the Foundation is:
- Providing a simple and effective emergency relief voucher that supports community members in times of crisis.
- Creating greater choice, and dignity, for community members seeking help.
- Increasing diversity and access to food relief, expanding not only the type of food available but also availability (days, times, delivery).
- Creating a model of emergency assistance that is widely distributed and provides people with greater options across our region
- Creating a voucher system that is flexible and scalable to meet community needs during times of crisis.
Give Where You Live Foundation
The Give Where You Live Foundation exists to build a fairer G21 community where all people and places thrive.
For almost 70 years the Give Where You Live Foundation has worked to assist people experiencing crisis, promote food security and improve education and employment opportunities across the Geelong community.
The Give Where You Live Foundation has been actively engaged in the issue of food security and supporting the food assistance system since it established the Direct Voucher Assistance Program in the early 1990s following the Pyramid Building Society collapse.
21-23 Fenwick Street
Geelong
VIC
Volunteering Geelong/Geelong Food Relief Centre
To increase the effectiveness of volunteers working in the food assistance system through the provision of workshops, technical assistance, development of a volunteer handbook (including the development of standardised volunteer policies and procedures across organisations) for members of the Geelong Food Assistance Network.
UnitingCare Geelong
To increase the capacity to provide fresh fruit and vegetables to those in the Geelong community who are hungry or without food by providing a preparation area as part of the food room at the at UnitingCare Geelong Grovedale site.
SecondBite
To support the collection and redistribution of over 300,000 kilograms of high quality fresh food for 108 community food programs providing 600,000 nutritious meals for disadvantaged families, children and young people in Geelong region through support for fuel costs.
Samaritan House
To support healthy meals for homeless men through the purchase of a commercial fridge/freezer.
Melting Moments Meal Relief
To support the distribution of 100 pre-packaged meals per week to organisations that provide emergency food relief through the purchase of appropriate packaging materials.
Geelong Inclusive Limited
To support the provision morning and evening meals at Geelong Inclusive a new women’s crisis housing facility that assist’s women escaping domestic violence through the purchase of a new oven.