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The “most significant grant” in Geelong Food Relief Centre’s 30-year history will take efforts to feed those in need “to the next level”, according to centre chief executive Collin Peebles.

The centre this week received a $700,000 share of a $3.5 million state government investment in food relief hubs for five regional Victorian cities.

The announcement comes after construction began just before Christmas on a $1.7 million council renovation of the Geelong centre, scheduled for completion in April…

A Halloween Trick or Eat campaign to collect food for people in poverty is taking place on both sides of the world!

When mother-of-three Jo Barr read about The Local Buyers Club’s Trick or Eat campaign for Hackney Foodbank, she loved the idea so much that she decided to run the initiative in her home town of Barwon Heads, Australia (in aid of Geelong Food Relief Centre).

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GFRC MINIMARTS WILL BE CLOSED
FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER
DUE TO AFL GRAND FINAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY

BOTH GFRC MINI MARTS WILL REOPEN 10AM
MONDAY 26th OCTOBER

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Geelong Food Relief Centre CEO Collin Peebles is passionate about helping people in need. Collin manages about 90 volunteers and works alongside them so that 37,000 people each year have enough to eat. He also spends his own time giving presentations to groups and clubs to boost support for the centre.

Westfield Local Heroes are nominated and voted for by their communities, with the three top finalists per Westfield centre each awarded a $10,000 grant for their affiliated organisation. If Collin is successful, the Geelong Food Relief Centre will use its grant to help fund a new forklift trolley…

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CONFIRMING BOTH GFRC MINIMARTS REMAIN OPEN 10.00AM – 3.00PM MON – FRI
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10.00AM
MONDAY 18th MAY
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