What a day! Thank you to everyone who attended our Addi Road Writers’ Festival.

What a day! Thank you to everyone who attended our Addi Road Writers’ Festival.

Addi Road

A small charity with a huge impact

Working with the community, we elevate human rights, arts & culture and sustainability.

We rescue food, fight hunger, and are leaders in the grassroots #RacismNotWelcome campaign with our Ambassador, Craig Foster.

We stand in solidarity with diverse communities in times of need.

Fighting hunger

Every week we divert over 8 tonnes of food from landfill and provide food to more than 8,000 people at our two Addi Road Food Pantries and Food Relief Hub. 

Hundreds of committed volunteers and generous donors make this possible.

The best way to help?

Donations are the lifeblood of our food relief efforts. We are not government funded.

All donations over $2 are tax-deductible. Addi Road Foundation (ABN 41 653 758 779) proudly supports Addi Road Community Organisation.

FOOD RELIEF

We believe access to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food is a human right. Our Addi Road Food Pantry helps anyone in need to stretch their budget, reduce food waste and put healthy food on their table.

WHAT’S ON

16-25 JUNE: Artists of Addi Road Exhibition ‘in the process’

16-25 JUNE: Artists of Addi Road Exhibition ‘in the process’

in the process   This annual exhibition at the Addi Road StirrUp Gallery showcases the work of artists that call Addi Road home. This year’s exhibition, in the process, will explore factors that inform, influence and shape art making processes through a diversity...

6 JULY: NAIDOC Week Cooking demo & bush tucker talk

6 JULY: NAIDOC Week Cooking demo & bush tucker talk

BUSH TO BOWL WORKSHOP in partnership with Inner West Council 10am - 12pm Art Session, Bush Tucker Talk and Cooking Demo 12pm - 2pm Lunch and entertainment More details and additional activities to be announced! About Bush To Bowl A social enterprise, Bush to Bowl is...

Stories from the road

Restoration, Community, Unity

Restoration, Community, Unity

We answer inequality and social struggle, environmental concerns and cultural isolation with bread and ideas, with political lobbying and food relief work in tandem with film nights, artist gallery shows, and public events like the Addi Road Writers’ Festival.

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May Day

May Day

Today is May Day. Also known as Labour Day and Eight Hour Day. In Marrickville we will maintain just a little of the May Day spirit in a conversation between the novelist Alan Fyfe and the poets DG Lloyd and Magdalena Ball at our Addi Road Writers’ Festival.

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Little Birds

Little Birds

Addi Road Food Pantry here in Marrickville is closing for another day. A barefoot schoolboy nearby, standing behind a tree, makes high calling sounds. “Is that a bird? Is that a bird?” a couple of women call out, as if they can’t see him.

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Programs & initiatives

SHOP

Ten Ordinary Men: The Anzacs of Addison Road

Ten Ordinary Men: The Anzacs of Addison Road

  $8 Shipping Australia-wide (up to 3 copies)This project is supported by the Australian Government’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Create NSW’s Cultural Grant Program, a devolved funding program administrated by the Royal Australian historical society on behalf...

FILM

Addi Road’s powerful film Die. Or Die Trying: Escaping the Taliban is the gripping and emotional experience of 15 young women from Kabul as the Taliban invade their city and seize power.

HISTORY

The birthplace of multiculturalism in Australia, the grounds of what is now Addi Road was handed over to the community in 1976 after 60 years as an army depot.

Before the army depot, it was sold off for cheap housing, was a market garden and brick-making site. Prior to 1852 it was a seasonal wetland on the edge of a forest cared for by the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.