We deliver food and health literacy using a wellness approach. We engage, educate and empower to reduce the risk of diet related disease, to improve disaster resilience and to create food justice!
We focus on people and communities experiencing hard times and build their capacity (see our Theory of Change below). A growing number of people and families need our help, now more than ever before. We would appreciate your support.
If you wish to make a large donation or ‘direct’ the funds to assist a community that you care about please email.
What we do:
Create innovative, long-term, multi-faceted, participatory food education initiatives that focus on direct engagement, building capacity and skill development.
Use food and digital media as a vehicle for social innovation and enterprise, to encourage healthy eating, improve health outcomes and address learning barriers like social exclusion, low literacy, lack of business knowledge and independent living skills.
Partner with community service providers to improve their capacity to integrate and deliver food-based preventative health education.
Support food education initiatives created by individuals or organisations who share our ethos.
(See our History for some great stories and collaborations.)
Theory of Change
The theory of change behind Food Education Australia's work is centred around the belief that through access to healthy food, gaining knowledge and skills about food and experiencing food vocations, marginalised communities will be empowered to make mindful food choices and reduce their risk of diet-related diseases. We seek to achieve this through a multi-pronged approach that is led by engaging with people where they live and asking what they need.
Our short-term goals focus on increasing awareness of healthy eating habits and improving access to healthy food options through partnerships and social enterprise projects. Capacity building initiatives are also put in place to train community leaders and organisations on how to sustain these efforts.
In the medium-term, Food Education Australia aims to expand its nutrition education programs, increase access to fresh produce, and provide support to those at risk of diet-related diseases. Social enterprise projects are also scaled to create more job opportunities and increase economic opportunities for marginalised communities.
The long-term goal of the organisation is to reduce the incidence of diet-related disease, promoting policy and systemic change to support food education, food security and creating a sustainable model for community-led initiatives through capacity building and empowerment.
Charitable Status:
The Foundation exists as a not-for-profit health promoting charity in the form of a Public Company and has been endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office to apply charity tax concessions (we have DGR1 Status and can give you a tax deductible receipt in return for donations $2.00 and over.) We are governed by our Constitution; the most important clause establishing our goals, aims, objectives and direction is our charitable purpose.
Charitable Purpose:
Promoting an understanding of food, health, nutrition and healthy food choices in order to prevent and/or control obesity and/or the diseases medically linked or associated with obesity including, but not limited to Type 2 Diabetes, Asthma, Coronary Heart Disease and Depression.
Facilitating, coordinating and supporting the development and dissemination of information and learning resources in relation to food, health, nutrition and healthy food choices;
Developing resources for use by people who may be impoverished, sick or disadvantaged, or for use by schools or other relevant persons or institutions who can deliver food education initiatives which promote an understanding of food, health, nutrition and healthy food choices;
Monitoring, evaluating and disseminating research knowledge in an accessible form so that it can be better used by policy makers, practitioners and educators.