Found 22 Community Services Food Preparation & Service, volunteering opportunities in Melbourne City

Emergency Support Assistant The Christ Church Mission Community Centre provides material assistance by way of pantry items, fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, meals and toiletries for people who are experiencing financial hardship.

On a Monday our Neighbour Connect Program group for over 55s meets to chat, sing, listen to guest speakers, reminisce, and ultimately enjoy a delicious nutritious lunch. Volunteers assist with the set-up of the event, preparation of lunch and to join in the group to encourage conversations.

FoodFilled is seeking passionate volunteers to help with food deliveries! Flexible commitment, just once a fortnight and takes approx 1 hour! Pickups mostly located in Melbourne’s South East. Volunteer shift involves driving to pick up leftover/excess food from retailers (e.g. supermarket/bakery) and delivering it to a local charity, saving valuable food from ending up in landfill and providing immediate relief for those experiencing food insecurity. Own car required.

FoodFilled is seeking passionate volunteers to help with food deliveries! Flexible commitment, just once a fortnight and takes approx 1 hour! Pickups mostly located in Melbourne’s South East. Volunteer shift involves driving to pick up leftover/excess food from retailers (e.g. supermarket/bakery) and delivering it to a local charity, saving valuable food from ending up in landfill and providing immediate relief for those experiencing food insecurity. Own car required.

Are you interested in increasing access to nutritious, culturally relevant food for your local community? We run weekly fruit and vegetable markets that provide produce up to 35% cheaper than other fresh food outlets, or free via our Grocer Gift Card program. Come and assist our Market Manager with the tasks of setting up, running and packing down a market, helping to create a vibrant and engaging environment where everyone feels welcome!

The Community Grocer runs weekly pop-up fruit and veg markets in communities experiencing food insecurity, making culturally relevant and high-quality food affordable and accessible for all. Alongside the market, we have a thriving box delivery scheme. We are looking for a volunteer cyclist to bring their bike and attach a trailer to deliver fruit and veg boxes to local residents and community organisations.

Are you interested in increasing access to nutritious, culturally relevant food for your local community? We run weekly fruit and vegetable markets that provide produce up to 35% cheaper than other fresh food outlets, or free via our Grocer Gift Card program. Come and assist our Market Manager with the tasks of setting up, running and packing down a market, helping to create a vibrant and engaging environment where everyone feels welcome!

Uniting's Emergency Relief services have opportunities within their dedicated teams. The roles includes packing and distribution of food, initial eligibility interviews, entry of data, and maintaining the work environment. 1-2 shifts per week, 9am-1pm weekdays.

Moongala Women’s Community House in Bentleigh East is a not for profit, friendly community-based organisation, bringing people together and providing a range of courses and activities to the community. We require a volunteer to support our organisation with welcoming visitors to the House, receptionist duties including answering the telephone, session set up and pack up where required, hospitality, and general administration duties.

Do you have 1-2 hours a week spare during school hours to help in a high school. This is commitment is for a full school year and not for people looking for full time employment.

The Ashburton Community Centre is seeking volunteers to join a lovely small team to run Devonshire Teas at Community Events.

The Whittlesea Food Collective Market Assistants will report to the Whittlesea Food Collective Enterprise Lead to assist with market operations, including sourcing produce, setting up, running and packing down the market, providing customer service and supporting community programs and activities surrounding the market.

Our beautiful cafe at our premises in Ascot Vale needs an extra set of hands cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for our staff and parishioners. This is a fully commercial kitchen with support staff. If you have experience as a cook or chef, and would like to volunteer, please reach out!

We seek volunteers for our weekly Community Lunch held on Thursdays. For some people this is their only social interaction during the week, so this is a crucial community service, and our amazing volunteers are truly at the heart of making this possible. We are looking for people who are kind and caring, and committed to our mission of giving friendship and support to those in need.

We seek volunteers for our Community Engagement Program, which operates at Malahang Reserve in West Heidelberg.

In 2022 Open House launched a social enterprise café called Whispers, with the aim to empower people who have faced disadvantage and been excluded from work opportunities. We are currently seeking volunteers to assist in our cafe.

A fulfilling opportunity exists for a volunteer who has Barista coffee machine skills and who loves to bring people together to combat loneliness and help make people feel comfortable to come together as a group and form friendships

The Food Sharing Team supports our Emergency Relief and Community Support Program by sourcing, packing, and sharing food with the Darebin community. The food relief driver is involved in leading the weekly food parcel deliveries to residential properties throughout Darebin.

The Food Services program supports our Community Information and Support Program by sourcing, sorting, packing, and sharing food with the Darebin community.

Compassionate and enthusiastic people needed for Community Dining Room team. Hartley's Meals has provided free and low-cost meals to the community for over 20 years. We support people experiencing homelessness, economic hardship and social isolation. Hartley's offers lunch on weekdays year-round, and Breakfast from April-September. The dining room has seating for up to 50 customers and has an outdoor courtyard area.