And what a big Month its been, Including the exciting news we are now 4 years in the making next month ***Love Soup Aotearoa Charitable Trust*** And more growth for the benefit of helping others will continue to increase. Love Soup Tokoroa Charitable Trust is also official, with some exciting news on the horizon!!!

Incredible and dedicated efforts to make positive changes, and bring support to our Homeless people in Rotorua.

As soon we start Serving at the Auckland City Mission the definite highlight was when the music started playing and we get our groove on.. Thank you the team at Auckland City Mission for your warm welcome and help, tonight we served over 100 meals.

Community meals, Food Rescue, getting Fresh air and enjoyable doggie beach walkies, Deliveries to Auckland City & Helensville, Take away meals given out to Baptist Church for struggling families, Food Parcels, Fundraising at Coast Christmas Carnival organised by Danny @ Earthstone Arts we did it all this week…. Including the completion of our Shed!!

Less than 2 weeks to go till Christmas, and donations are coming a HUGE box of goodies donated by Debbie & Jeff , Illuminate Church Silverdale with Gill that shopped and shopped at Silverdale The Warehouse they kindly gave an extra special discount helping those $$ really stretch Thank you everyone1 Bomb the festive season with Lots of Christmas Cheer

Yay our trailer is now ready to use and legal on the road. Great to see our friends at Hibiscus Coast WOF centre with Ursula no time to waste, we took away some rubbish that was collecting over time and picked up wood planks from Mitre 10 to get that shed sorted,

Whangaparaoa Hall We Have been providing Food to the community via our Community meals, Gardens, Then Pantry, Food Rescue for some months …..now check out our Fridge!!! Checked Daily you are welcome to come and help yourself to any of it. and if you are in the giving spirit you are welcome to donate.

This week we got the opportunity to meet with Ani & William Feed a Family Northland, to deliver cheese very nice to connect with 2 amazing people that serve the Northland Community helping people in need.  Puhoi Valley Sponsor us cheese  weekly which we try and get it out to as many charities we can. around the North Island. Heartfelt Thank you Frank Director of Metro NZ Property Management For sponsoring us, We enjoyed Frank & Mitchell joining us to help with  tonight’s community meal.

Tonight we fed 100 happy guests, with around 12 volunteers. our Love family is growing, at 3pm we had a good crowd turn up for our event with Tori @ Compost Collective & Love Food Hate Waste, We love collaborating with them, as we believe in how important it is to raise awareness of how much is wasted and protecting our environment.

Our hearts go out to all those affected with Yesterday’s Earthquake….

We welcome you to join us. click here to book: Just Eat it

with Love Food Hate Waste & Tori from Compost Collective 3pm Sunday 20th November 2016 At 5pm we will be providing a free Community meal you are welcome to stay, We will be putting on a Hangi with our massive Kai Cooker @ Whangaparaoa Hall with Love Soup.

Thank You Pegasus Sports Foundation we now have our own trailer!!

Great to meeting our Girl Guide Orewa Ranges this week, and Taking part in .Co Women Thank you Carol ASB got some great insight with Incredibly inspiring women.

Went to 3 Kings Auckland today for Love Food Hate Waste – New Zealand Seminar run by Lucy, Got some fabulous learning tools we can use in our workshops. Did you know with them left over sausages or meat you can store in a salt water  #OfftheGrid as an additional way of keeping it still good to eat, and that left over Feta we all love <3 can be immersed in olive oil to marinate with herbs and lemon. You can Freeze Cheese even whipped cream freezes great! .

Love Soup Hibiscus Coast community dinner FREE EVENT. is going to be extra special this year, we are so thankful to be recipients for the promotion run by Hibiscus Matters Buy Local – Give Local

Gift vouchers donated will be gifted to struggling families we are aware of to help make Christmas extra special this year,

Missy Lepaio Organiser: Solid As Night
First of all I would like to put a Big Phatt Shout Out and Many Thanks to our Sponsors for our Duble8six Productions / Love Soup Tokoroa Halloween Event

Our Halloween event was fabulous A massive turn out ! Raising funds for Plunket. @ Whangaparaoa Hall. We really enjoyed this Thank You Cherise. Also our Chef Richard which prepared some yummy free food and drinks to give out.

Friday 28th October, We managed to pull off 2 community events in one night, with some of us running our Monthly Movie night at Whangaparaoa Hall, and our other volunteers working hard to help with a Function, Also the Lovely Sea Scouts Orewa, At Rotary Our Brilliant Chef Richard & Family managed the 5 Star Meal engaged fundraiser for Youth in Transition which is a group that helps prevent youth suicide in the Rodney area.

Labour weekend 3 of our volunteers Cheryl, Nelly & Myself (Julie) , attended Elevate Christian Disability Camp Being around almost 400 over the weekend that face the most severe challenges in life, teaches you to be humble for what you have. I really struggled this weekend, but know It was good to be there, we came as helpers. Each of us assigned someone to care for. It made me reflect and focus on things that really matter, Forced me to reevaluate my own life & the importance of Family.

Tonight after our meal, Tori came to work with us to do a waste audit. with our lovely little helpers.

Here are the audit results;

Meet Michelle one of our wonderful Angels, on the Coast, Helping us with Food Rescue.

This week we travelled to South Auckland to deliver Cheese to Charities, Today we got to deliver several Organisations on the Hibiscus Coast, Next week Helensville.

We like to encourage children to be involved in helping, their enthusiasm to be involved, is like happy sparkles of energy around us.

Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes is also a crucial building block for other caring emotions.