SHEPPARTON Foodshare’s annual fundraising dinner, ‘Make A Meal of June’ returns on Wednesday, June 7.
Food insecurity continues to rise, your support via ‘Make a Meal of June’ will help keep the doors of this critical local service open and providing food for the most vulnerable in our community.
A nutritious meal can help restore hope and dignity. Registered emergency relief agencies, schools, churches and community meals programs collect Foodshare food for the people they support, distributing more than 3.8 million kilos of food to the most vulnerable in our community since 2012.
With no regular or guaranteed funding, Shepparton Foodshare has operated on extreme community generosity and has had the need to establish its own fundraising efforts. Make a Meal of June commenced back in 2017 as a means to raise essential funds to contribute to operating costs. They have since raised in excess of $530,000.
Tickets to ‘Make a Meal of June’ can be purchased online at www.sheppartonfoodshare.org.au. Your $100 ticket includes a beautiful 3-course meal, welcome drink donated by Fowles Wines and importantly, a contribution to assist with a sustainable future for Foodshare.
Attendees will obtain an update on the progress of Foodshare’s new warehouse and will also hear from Mooroopna Park Primary School Principal, Hayden Beaton. Hayden will talk on the impact of regularly receiving food from Shepparton Foodshare for his school’s award-winning wellbeing and meals program.
This popular annual event does sell out each year so to avoid disappointment you are encouraged to purchase your tickets early at www.sheppartonfoodshare.org.au or for more information email Kate Smith at kate@sheppartonfoodshare.org.au.
