Workplace Engagement
There's no better way to experience how we 'Nourish our Country' than rolling up your sleeves and getting involved. However you choose to help us, add a splash of yellow and some purpose to your day!
Workplace Engagement
There's no better way to experience how we 'Nourish our Country' than rolling up your sleeves and getting involved. However you choose to help us, add a splash of yellow and some purpose to your day!
Cooking for a Cause
OzHarvest’s Cooking for a Cause is a hands-on cooking class open to corporate groups. Led by our phenomenal OzHarvest chefs, teams get busy in the kitchen over a three hour period, transforming rescued food into restaurant quality meals that are then delivered directly to local disadvantaged communities.
Beyond cooking a range of cuisines our chefs will share the unique story of OzHarvest, inspiring attendees with the power of positivity and instilling the value of food and why we shouldn’t waste it. In addition to bonding over delicious food and learning useful cooking tips from a pro, this half day experience will leave a beautiful memory in the hearts and minds of all who attend.
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OzHarvest Market
Join our volunteer family for a day at our free market in Waterloo! You’ll help to replenish shelves, chat with patrons, and provide customer service to the market’s 200+ daily customers. This is a great way to experience firsthand the community that has been built around this innovative space.
- Sessions available: Tuesday to Friday from 8am – 2.30pm.
- Group size: corporate teams up to 3 people per session.
- Cost: $600 (ex.GST) per session.
Refettorio OzHarvest Sydney
A unique community space, serving up free nourishing meals made with love to people in need. You can hire this beautiful space for private events or come along to one of our Pay It Forward dinners held every Thursday night to experience Refettorio dining with a delicious vegetarian menu created from rescued ingredients.
Use It Up Campaign
Reducing food waste at home is the most powerful way you and your team can take climate action. Find out how you can support our national campaign Use It Up™ including our behavioural change tool, Use It Up Tape to help achieve Australia’s national target to halve food waste by 2030.
OzHarvest Catering
Order our gourmet catering delivered to your workplace in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide! Menus can be tailored and includes burgers, salads, pitas, share platters, sweet treats and breakfast options! All funds raised allows us to deliver more meals to people in need. For Sydney siders, our delicious Food Truck is also available! Every paid event enables us to deliver a nourishing lunch, free of charge, to a charity or community event.
Workplace Fundraising!
Challenge yourself to make a difference! Join an existing event, host a bake sale, go yellow day, hold a trivia night or get creative to raise funds for OzHarvest to help keep our wheels turning! You can add an OzHarvest Lunch & Learn from to any event so team members can learn more about our mission, food waste and the work we do. Add delicious food with OzHarvest catering or hire our Food Truck (Sydney only). Talk to your HR team about setting up Workplace Giving – an easy and impactful way to give back.
Lunch & Learn
Book an OzHarvest team member to share our story. Our sessions can be customised to cover three key areas: sustainability, nutrition, and our food rescue model. This is an excellent opportunity to start meaningful conversations and foster a sense of community with your team.
Food Drive
Hosting a food drive is the perfect way to engage your team to support OzHarvest. Food Drives can be run all year round for non-perishable food items only and within use-by date including: pasta, rice, whole grain cereal, canned fruit and veg, tuna, salmon, chicken, beef stews (ring pull), long life milk products, breakfast cereals, tea/coffee, and biscuits (sweet and savoury).
Food containing alcohol cannot be accepted, so please do not collect Christmas Puddings! Please avoid filling heavy boxes, do not wrap the food, leave boxes open. Food donated in eco shopping bags is preferred.
Food Drive items distributed by OzHarvest make an invaluable difference to local vulnerable people. We thank you for your part in helping us to nourish hungry bellies and support those in our community. Click the button below to contact us to collect the food.
Individual Volunteering
There are many wonderful volunteering opportunities available across the country to help support our cause and we encourage people to sign up individually! Currently, we’re unable to offer corporate volunteering sessions but our Cooking for a Cause is a much-loved (paid) program for corporate teams to give back. For national impact we coordinate sessions at our sites across the country.
We couldn’t do what we do without the thousands of volunteers across the country who support our cause.
Get in touch!
Want to find out more about how your workplace can support OzHarvest? Email our engagement team below:
