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
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Stories from the road
After a Fashion
Beth from Reunion in Newtown came down to Addi Road to donate vintage and designer clothes for winter. She talks about her belief in an environmentally friendly, circular economy that Addi Road is also a part of in Sydney’s Inner West.
Drawn to Rock
Audrey is the teenage force behind our Addi Rock youth music festival on September 16. Curated and run by a group of 16-year-olds the event will feature eighteen bands and solo artists. Audrey explains what inspired her to launch the event.
Bread and Flowers
One hour left till closing time at the Addi Road Food Pantry. There’s just enough time to share some flowers. Two of our volunteers, Annerie and Ros, stand outside in a last splash of afternoon sunlight, making use of a bench to carve up a thick crop of purple succulents that “some nice man” has randomly donated..
Programs & initiatives
SHOP
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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
Addi Road is the birthplace of multiculturalism in Australia. In 1976 the site was handed over to the community, after almost 50 years as a army depot. In earlier years it 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.
Press coverage
Sydney food charity builds lockdown ‘war map’
In a community centre in Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner west, thousands of food hampers are being packed for people impoverished by the Covid-19 lockdown. Each day come more calls for help, and the response grows more elaborate.
Channel 10 at Addi Road Food Relief Hub with Coles and Second Bite
“The City of Sydney has teamed up with Coles and food rescue group SecondBite to ensure pantry staples make it to our most vulnerable residents. The hampers will be distributed by grassroots organisations, including Addi Road in Marrickville, which is already giving out 2000 hampers a week, with demand climbing due to Covid.”
Hunger heroes unite as food demand soars in NSW
Last week, Addi Road Community Organisation packed and delivered 1200 food hampers across NSW and expect that number to double in the next 10 days.