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

25-29 October – Shed Thread & Paper Ghosts

25-29 October – Shed Thread & Paper Ghosts

A group exhibition with textile artist Mouse, Adrienne Sachs (collage), Jane Skinner (watercolours) and Holly Bury (pottery). Opening Hours - Wednesday 25 - Sunday 29 October, daily 11am-3pm Opening Drinks - Thursday 26 October 2023, 6-8pm

3-12 NOV: Public Schools Arts Festival

3-12 NOV: Public Schools Arts Festival

Addi Road Public Schools Arts Festival Opening night 5.30pm Friday 3 November Features collaborative student artworks in our Addi Road StirrUp Gallery + Performances by school rock bands, ensembles, drumming groups, choirs, dance groups, concert and jazz bands welcome...

Stories from the road

Food, Justice, Community

Food, Justice, Community

Food on the table restores pride, provides a breathing space for families and individuals alike to keep going while under pressure. It’s a matter integral to self-respect, offering a breathing space as incomes are sucked into rising rents and cost-of-living pressures that negate people’s ability to feed themselves. Mental health, relationships, emotional stamina, children’s levels of anxiety, the room to innovate in some small way and climb out of your difficulties is shot to pieces if you can’t afford enough food to get by each day.

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Addi Road and Tradeswomen Australia

Addi Road and Tradeswomen Australia

Tune in to Dr Tanya Paterson explaining how Tradeswomen Australia and Addi Road are combining forces to inspire and help women to consider the possibility of becoming tradespeople and apprentices. She speaks here with Kate Saap of FBi Radio’s morning program ‘Up For It!’ 

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Seeing is Believing

Seeing is Believing

Work opportunities and vocational possibilities for women as trainees and apprentices are in huge demand across Australia. Addi Road and Tradeswomen Australia are combining forces to show how you can become “a Jill of all trades”, ensuring stable jobs, good money and portable skills that can gain women quality employment anywhere they go.

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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.

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