Eat Up Australia

Four states, 83 amazing team members, and 4,494 sandwiches for kids in need! 🙌🥪 Huge thanks to our incredible partner Insignia Financial for bringing together teams from Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane to make sandwiches for hungry schoolchildren without lunch! 💪 In the last twelve months alone, Insignia Financial has made 14,000 sandwiches for Eat Up and we are so thankful for their support! 🙏💚🥪

We love this video from SEISMA GROUP, who will be getting together next week for an Eat Up sandwich-making session! 🥪 What's your go-to sandwich filling? Are you team almond?!

Bidfood Australia is incredibly proud to partner with Eat Up Australia. Strategically aligning your business’s strengths with impactful causes can drive meaningful change. Head over to our website to read more about why this partnership works so well. https://lnkd.in/gYaHs2ZC

In 2024, we welcomed Zurich Australia as a new Eat Up partner. The team has hit the ground running and is on track to make over 8,000 sandwiches for hungry tummies at schools around the country! Thanks so much team Zurich Financial! 🙏 🥪 🙌

Eat Up Wrapped for 2024! 🥪 As 2024 draws to a close, we are reflecting on some amazing highlights this year: 1) Reaching 4,000,000 sandwiches delivered since Eat Up began 🥪 2) Lots of great media coverage spreading the word about what we do 📺 3) Lyndon’s Winston Churchill Trust (Australia) fellowship tour, learning about in-school lunch programs around the world 🌍 4) Raising nearly $50,000 in our National Sandwich Day Appeal, with support from Moose Toys 💰 5) Hosting Public Sandwich Making Events across the country with our wonderful partner, HomeCo. 🙌 6) Welcoming lots of new team members, including Co-CEO Miriam Dexter! 7) Presenting at the Inquiry into Food Security at Parliament of Victoria 8) Working with new partners Heinz Beanz Kraft Heinz , DUAL Australia Pty Ltd, Zurich Australia, Societe Generale (and more to be announced!) 9) Supporting 956 schools across the country 🏫 10) Delivering over 1 million nutritious lunches for kids who would have otherwise gone hungry at school. We would like to say a HUGE thanks to our in-kind partners: Wonder Goodman Fielder, Chobani Australia, Bidfood Australia Ltd, Messy Monkeys Good Food Partners, Office Fruit Group and Peerless Foods, along with our amazing national and state partners: Accenture Australia, Ashurst, Bloomberg, ESR Australia & NZ, HMC Capital, Insignia Financial, KCL Law, Moose Toys, Nook, Performance Property, Salesforce, Swisse Wellness (part of H&H Group), T House, Xero & Zurich Australia, as well as our incredible volunteers! 🙏

As term four finishes up across Australia, ‘tis the season for teachers gifts! 🎁 Teacher Presence is a not for profit charity helping to redirect funds that would be used for end of year teachers gifts to support those in need. We are so thankful to be one of the charities Teacher Presence has partnered with this year! 🙏 If you gave or received a few too many mugs and boxes of choccies this year, be sure to check them out and sign up for 2025!

Drumroll please for Eat Up’s delivery stats for 2024… 🥪 1,115,148 sandwiches thanks to Wonder Bread, Bidfood Australia Ltd, Office Fruit Group & Peerless Foods 🍎 177,411 serves of fruit 🥣 116,352 Chobani Australia Yogurt pouches 🍿 78,624 yummy Messy Monkeys snacks 🫘 49,392 cans of Heinz Beanz 😋 countless smiles and tummies filled for the children we support! Thanks so much to our amazing in-kind partners for supporting us! 🙏

A message from the schools we support! 🙏 It is wonderful to hear this amazing feedback from schools about the positive impact the Eat Up program is having on their school community, all made possible through the support of our partners and volunteers! 🙌🏻 As the year comes to a close we want to thank all of our incredible donors, volunteers and partners for their support. 🙏🥪

Eat Up is so thankful to the City of Logan Charitable Trust for their generous $10,000 grant which was used to purchase 21,760 cheese slices to make 21,760 sandwiches! 🥪These sandwiches were then delivered to 24 Logan schools in Terms 3 and 4 in 2024, helping to feed 2,112 hungry Queensland kids. In addition, we were also able to purchase 3,900 non-perishable SPC fruit cups! 🍐 Every Eat Up sandwich is made by volunteers, either from corporate and community groups, as well as our public sessions. Pictured here is the team from ESR Group who recently got together at Berrinba East State School in Logan for a sandwich-making session, thanks team! 🙌

A massive thanks to Women Veterans Network Australia - (WVNA) who this year made close to 20,000 sandwiches for Eat Up supported schools in the Townsville area! 🥪 🙌 They also coined the term 'Sammie Sessions' which we love! Thanks so much to all the amazing veterans and community members for your support this year! 🙏