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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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DEAR CLIENTS,
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
Introducing our newest addition to our gourmet Chef Prepared Meals.
Select 4 meals of your choice for 1 x Green Point.
Dishes include:
Lasagne
Crumbed Fish
Spanish Chicken
Roast Beef…
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…
COVID 19 – STAGE 3 UPDATE
CONFIRMING BOTH GFRC MINIMARTS REMAIN OPEN 10.00AM – 3.00PM MON – FRI
BOTH OF OUR LOCATIONS HAVE AN EXCELLENT RANGE OF FRESH, CHILLED & AMBIENT PRODUCTS FOR OUR
FOOD VOUCHER RECIPIENTS…
DEAR CLIENTS,
GFRC MINIMARTS WILL REOPEN
10.00AM
MONDAY 18th MAY
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE & STAY SAFE
Dear All,
The Geelong Food Relief Centre is pleased to advise that after a review of current information and experience concerning Covid 19 virus, the ongoing need for food relief, and the gradual and phased relaxing of State Government regulations, GFRC will be opening both of the Geelong MiniMarts effective 10.00am Monday, 18th May 2020…
Read MoreGFRC WAREHOUSE 8 FREEDMAN ST NORTH GEELONG 7AM-2PM DAILY
(AGENCIES ONLY) LIMITS APPLY
Please Note Products Cannot Be Guaranteed & May Be Substituted
FRESH
Boxed Bananas
3kg Bagged Apples
Boxed Pears
Boxed Oranges
Bagged Carrots
Loose Pumpkin
5kg Brushed Potatoes
Mixed Assorted Fruit & Veg…
Dear All,
Early this week, I advised that GFRC would be suspending its traditional operations and preparing to support the distribution within the Geelong Region of hampers prepared by Food Bank Victoria in collaboration with Red Cross Geelong. While the Red Cross hamper program is a welcome initiative, it is not necessarily targeting the clients within our region, regularly supported by GFRC and its’ partners. Many partners also expressed their disappointment that bulk product would no longer be available to support their efforts…
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With media attention relating to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its potential spread throughout our region we understand it may be causing concern within our community.
In order to protect our volunteers and clients from (COVID-19) we have decided to suspend operating from our GFRC Freedman St North Geelong as of 3.00pm Friday 3rd April 2020 until further notice…
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