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New Partnership: The Warehouse Fraser Cove

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Eva Wolf
We’ve formed a new partnership with The Warehouse Fraser Cove to distribute some of their products to our community in need. These products are not good enough to sell, but still great to use and give away to those who need a little hand up. With The Warehouse trialling fresh produce in their Fraser Cove…

Supporting our older people

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Through our partnership with Tauranga Foodbank we have recently identified that many pensioners are going without meals because they can’t afford food. There are many reasons for this, including access issues due to weather or mobility or because the finances simply don’t stretch that far. Good Neighbour have teamed up with Tauranga Foodbank, Age Concern,…

Going for gold

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8,000 kilos of delicious golden kiwifruit have been devoured by Good Neighbour recipients over the last months. Thanks to the collaboration between Good Neighbour, Mpac packhouse and Zespri, we’ve been able to distribute amazing quality kiwifruit within the Bay of Plenty, with some of it going as far as Rotorua. Kiwifruit gold, also known as…

Cost of living crisis: Good Neighbour food rescue volumes drop

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From: NZ Herald, 22 May 2023 Donations to a Tauranga food rescue service are down 14,000kg a month and the city foodbank had to shrink food parcels – sometimes going without basics such as potatoes and onions – as its expenses soar by $10,000 a month. Charities trying to feed people in the city are…

Food rescue sector united & inspired 

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Eva Wolf
Last Thursday and Friday Good Neighbour hosted the AFRA (Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance) Regional Conference sponsored by Foodstuffs, with 32 representatives from the food rescue sector across the Central North Island attending. The aim was to bring together regional food rescue organisations to connect, learn new skills and ideas to take back to their organisations,…

Many hands make light work

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‘’A thriving metropolis at the bottom of 15th Ave’’ is how many describe Good Neighbour; they are not wrong. Our dedicated team of 140 food rescue volunteers who receive and sort food from supermarkets, distributors, local markets, and cafes, have distributed a whopping 147,377kgs to 70 charities over the past quarter: an average of 49,000kgs…

Wedding Story

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The team at Good Neighbour catered their first ever wedding using only food rescued from local supermarkets, the final menu was up in the air right until the morning of the wedding.

Toi Ohomai Students

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We distribute food to more than 55 amazing organisations working in our community. Here is Steve and the Toi Ohomai team

Awesome Volunteers

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The food rescue team has more than 150 volunteers collecting, sorting and processing food. So many very special people that make this all happen!

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