A supermarket where everything’s special

Imagine not being able to feed your family. Such a stressful, lonely place to be.

Then you hear about a cool new supermarket in your neighbourhood… where you can fill a trolley to help nourish the people you love AND it’s completely free of charge.

Ta da. We’ve just opened a supermarket EXACTLY like that at our Morwell and Ballarat Community Food Centres providing 100s OF LOCAL FAMILIES PER WEEK with trolleys full of fresh produce, dairy and all their pantry essentials.

Putting the ‘super’ back into supermarket for hard hit regional communities – with YOUR support.

In Ballarat, our supermarket opened in March last year with a pilot program in partnership with our friends at Federation Uni for students experiencing severe hardship. It has supported over 1,000 young people living in and around Ballarat.

Now, the supermarket is open to local families who are referred through our local charity partners, so they can do their weekly shop minus the unimaginable stress of wondering how to feed their children on a non-existent food budget.

Over in Morwell, we opened our supermarket at the beginning of December last year, launching a 16 week pilot program in collaboration with two of our local charity partners. The program gave 50 families a week living in Morwell and surrounding areas easy access to healthy food leading up to that painful Christmas period and is continuing right through into Autumn.

It’s been a huge success so far, with each family getting their hands of 25kg of food per visit – enough to fill a whole trolley!

What are the supermarkets like?

Well, shoppers get to select their food from baskets brimming with fresh seasonal fruit and veggies, bays stacked with fresh bread, fridges stocked with yoghurt and milk, and aisle full of pantry staples like pasta, rice, cereal, and cans of tuna and legumes. It’s exactly the same as shopping at your local supermarket, but without the cost!

We’re so grateful to YOU for helping provide 100s of regional families with the most caring supermarkets on the planet 😍