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
1-16 October: Juntos – Together
Opening Event: Friday 6 October, 6pm-8pm Opening Hours: Sunday 1 October to Sunday 15 October, 11am-3pm Experience Juntos-Together, an exhibition uniting six Hispanic-American artists residing in Sydney, Australia. Breaking all barriers, showcasing the inseparable...
12 OCT: Breathwork Session
Addi Road and Nimbus Co are happy to present a free Breathwork Session at Addi Road with Rory Warnock. Rory's approach to breathwork is approachable, open and inviting with the intention to bring individuals from all walks of life into this growing space. Breathwork...
18-22 October: ‘7 Artists’
Opening Event: Wednesday 18 October, 6.30pm Opening times: Thursday 19 October, 5.30pm-8.00pm, Friday 20 October, 12.00pm-8.00pm, Saturday 21 October, 11.00am-5.00pm, Sunday 22 October, 10.00am-4.00pm '7 Artists' incorporate their distinct and individual styles once...
Stories from the road
Maria’s Story
Fragments and tears; big feelings in each silence that falls between the words. Maria Fotiadis has had a long history with Addi Road, going back to the early 1970s when the Greek community began gathering here in Marrickville, bringing to life what would be formally established as the Addison Road Community Centre in 1976. She remembers the other communities that allied with them, the Turkish and Yugoslav and Italian people in particular, the nights they’d organise to sing, play music and dance and celebrate each nation’s unique culture and history…
Add Road wins a NSW Multicultural Communications Award
Last night we gathered together again as one when our film ‘Die. Or Die Trying: Escaping the Taliban’ won a NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Award. Our successful nomination was in the Public Interest Award’s category for “outstanding public interest journalism upholding the NSW Multicultural Principles”.
Night Songs
‘Here Comes the Night’ sings out over the road out front of the Addi Road Food Pantry in Marrickville. A low-flying plane is coming in to land, adding to the Inner West soundtrack. The old Them song is a 1960s classic, with Van Morrison’s voice exultant and oddly melancholy, as if all of us somehow got lost in an old radio for a little while.
Programs & initiatives
SHOP
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.
Press coverage
Sydney councils asked to pay for food relief
Robyn White, a volunteer at Addi Road Food Pantry, told the meeting demand had increased dramatically over the past 12 months, with 20 or 30 people waiting outside an hour before the facility opens.
Food banks worried more people will go to bed hungry after missing out on budget funding
Stay-at-home mother Glenda Pontes has been visiting the Addi Road food pantry in Sydney’s inner-west for years to purchase snacks at a low price. Now she has to rely on the charity to put all food on the table.
How Coles and SecondBite are transforming lives
Addison Road Community Organisation, known to locals as Addi Road, is a community centre based in Sydney’s Inner West that is a regular recipient of food from SecondBite, as well as a Coles Nurture Fund grant.