Social enterprises helping vulnerable people during our current crisis while building a resilient and just food future.
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What’s Moving Feast?
Victoria’s food social enterprises have joined forces to create a pandemic food response that creates justice, sustainability and resilience. We’ve been growing, cooking and delivering meals and produce to the most vulnerable Victorians as part of the widespread food relief system. Together we’ve achieved so much and this is just the beginning!
Some troubling food for thought
Conservative estimates predict that over 10% of the population will be in need of emergency food assistance over the coming months. The demand could be over 250,000 meals a week. Unfortunately Melbourne’s fresh food system is not well equipped for this scale of crisis.
Although relatively small, Victoria’s food social enterprise sector is critical in the current crisis for two key reasons:
We create food security right across the food system from farm to table (farming, food relief, food rescue, distribution, social cohesion, therapy and occupational health and education)
We are major employers and service providers to vulnerable Victorians, every day doing heavy lifting for the government through our sustainable business models.
Essentially, if these enterprises are not supported and left to close, the system will get the dual shock of both social and environmental issues worsening.
There are three phases in our response
Relief
Immediate food relief for the state’s most vulnerable people
Recovery
Mass production and distribution of food boxes and backyard growing kits
Rejuvenation
Creating integrated and resilient local food systems
Moving Feast collective
The alliance already includes:
STREAT, CERES, Common Ground Project, Community Grocer, Cultivating Community, Fruit2Work, Melbourne Farmers Markets, Open Food Network, ACRE, Collingwood Children’s Farm, ASRC Catering, Kinfolk, 3000 Acres, Good Cycles, Whittlesea Food Collective, Laneway, Free to Feed and RMIT’s Bowen Street Press.
There are over 100 food social enterprises across the state and shortly we’ll be inviting them to join the team too.
With seed funding from
RACV Foundation
This project is proudly being delivered as part of the Social Enterprise Network of Victoria (SENVIC) and in partnership with Social Traders.
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