“Living my best life and that is in Community service being amongst the best company our precious Volunteers & the medicine that comes from helping others, Lives transformed, shared Hope, healing and happiness magnets this is where the Love is” - Julie King

In Rotorua, our Manager Murray has been keeping our Pataka Kai Pantries stocked up at least 3 times a week which is going really well, we are getting feedback and comments more people are using them including sharing more, we are pleased to see this happening as it works well, we fill them also in Auckland and know the great value these provide communities, the movement is firing up in Tokoroa too with Tania

Meet Evie our Superstar Information guru First time reporting for us Sunday night Community Dinner

Proud of you Evie Great Job 👏👌🥰

Please share with your Friends help us raise much needed funds for our Warehouse ❤

Exciting News! We have secured $1000 match funding which means that every donation is doubled... $20 becomes $40 as if by magic✨! Help us make the most of this amazing opportunity by donating today to our #HelpFromHome4 Givealittle crowdfunding campaign. The money will be used to help us purchase equipment for our warehouse allowing us to scale our operations and feed more people in need.

Donate here https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/love-soup-help-from-home-4

The Funding Network NZ & Givealittle Thank You amazing team support ❤

We can’t achieve what we do without our amazing Volunteers, Truly Blessed to have Tokowha Tehuia Our Chairman & Sabrina dugan Managing our Warehouse in Rosedale, How it all happened has been for us another of many Miracles, they came right in the very hour of need and since then lived and breathed our work, Dedicated to serve. . Each week 3am starts to journey out to deliver and share provisions to the organisations we collaborate with.

Yes that's right!

This made possible in conjunction with dedicated volunteers & Food Rescue

Xavier our Ambassador for Lunches in Schools program working alongside students participating in their Duke of Edinburgh's Award and our Mum Volunteers we have made it through 3 months of going from 60 a day to 120. meetings to expand our program to other schools in collaboration with other organisations are underway …..

We are grateful to have 3 sponsors on board so far, It all helps THANK YOU!!!

We are now part of An Alliance that has been formed with 19 Food Rescue organizations partnering under the AFRA - Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance leadership team with a collective vision of “Food For All” we are Excited!!!

We are so proud of you Xavier !!

Our student ambassador Xavier Identifying the need, Initiated our lunches in school program providing 180 lunches to Whangaporaoa college. Along with our lunch program we are also offering placements to the college duke of Edinburgh award participants. As our food parcels and community meals numbers have increased, so too has our number of school lunches. We are super excited to be working with Whangaporaoa College

“Christmas time giving the light of love to those who need it most." heartfelt thank you to all that have been so generous this Christmas we look forward to sharing gifts and hampers being made for many families this Christmas along with our Christmas dinner coming up Sunday 20th Dec at Whangaparaoa Hall. The Toy Run Sat 12th Dec was a wonderful experience thank You Mike & Hell’s Angels Nomads NZ There will be lots happy smiling faces this Christmas !!!

Anyone working in Food Rescue is a Hero in my eyes and so many others, I remember when I was 18 (close to 30 years ago now) new in the hospitality industry seeing so much food waste, it was never discussed or even a topic heard of to address the food I was seeing wasted on a daily basis in just one supermarket ….. memories of looking through rubbish bins as a 5 year old being Hungry. experiencing poverty and seeing a need at that moment I knew In my heart that someday i was going to make a difference

Today is International Food Waste Awareness Day. It's estimated that New Zealand generates more than 571,000 tonnes of food waste, going to landfill, each year. Food rescue is the practice of rescuing edible food that would otherwise go to waste, and distributing it to those in need. We are one of many food rescue organisations working in NZ to reduce food waste and feed communities. Check out the Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance map and see what's happening where you live! https://bit.ly/2QOOCYy #NZFoodRescue #AFRA #FWADay

Thank you so much to the wonderful group of Brownies that came to Love Soup to find out what we do. They asked great questions to learn about food rescue and feeding the need. They generously donated some useful items for our food parcels and worked hard bagging up sugar and milk powder. Good on you for serving your community 💓💓💓

We are thrilled to get an enormous and very generous donation of high quality meal based dry goods 9 full pallets of it or approx 4320 1 KG boxes

We will send these to organisations around the North Island Community Kitchens, Food Banks, Organisations helping people in need where ever we can, including our Food Rescue Partners here in Auckland.

Lovely to finally meet the amazing most generous man "Dad" that founded Dad's Pies and have supported us since we began on the Hibiscus Coast in 2016

With uncertain times for so many our volunteers took to the streets with 60 Care packages & blankets to share with our streetie’s in Auckland City it wasn't near enough to cover for the multitudes living rough the night was a cold one with many snuggled up in blankets lining the pavement huddled in small spaces for cover and warmth the usual soup kitchen was closed met with many smiles and grateful people so happy to receive their bags. (Thank you Lisa & Wendy helping to provide for them)

For all those that believe in a supreme being we ask for you're prayers as we put in an application to MSD for a Warehouse in Albany we desperately need! Positive Optimistic vibes 🙏

Some of our Homeless friends have relocated, moved on to other spots. but still homeless. Today we met Stewart living in his car, softly spoken and very appreciative of food given, told by Doctor’s he had 3 months to live 3 years ago, currently on Homeopathy medicines, We where glad to be able to share some healthy Fruit and vegetables recently he has received the news the cancer has spread to his Lymph nodes. He has been living in his car for 6 months.

Today arrived several boxes of Yummy Kiwifruit Thank you Zespri Kiwifruit Popping in Friday lots happy faces Orewa Baptist Church preparing food parcels for community, Pieter & team have been working all the way through covid, Thank you Bunnings Warehouse Silverdale for the vouchers helping us get much needed shelving to hold more food, Thank you Qantas @Air NZ Emirates lots of goodies we have been delivering out to food banks.

There is always hope for A better tomorrow with the likes of Ava Meg & Bella wanting to make a difference and help people in need they decided to walk Red Beach 100 laps, 7 hours of walking raising for us $637 🤩✨🌺 which will help us buy at least 637 extra cans to place into Food deliveries and parcels we are sending out to share with our local Food banks. Such a pleasure to meet these adorable angels Thank you to everyone for supporting them in this challenge

Its been an incredibly busy time for us, during level 4, 3 and 2 we collected, sorted & distributed 81 Tons of Food, as much as the food was needed the sponsors & donations came in, we made a lot of new connections, with food banks all around the North Island helping to supply to them food and goods. we wish to keep that relationship going, as some food banks are replying on that extra support to supply not just 2 days of food but in many cases at least a weeks supply.

It’s so Amazing to have Nadene Lomu on board as part of the Love Soup Family we have some super exciting things to share with you all really soon <3 #GivingHopeWithFood #PeopleHelpingPeople