Watson Community Pantry

18/10/2026

Happy Sunday afternoon everyone. The pantry is overflowing with bread today, so please come along and grab a loaf or 7. 🥖 🍞 🥯

30/08/2026

Someone has donated meat: some out of date, but some still ok, however we don’t know how it has been in the pantry so maybe best for pets.

04/04/2026

Come along tomorrow morning for some fun, Easter egg hunt, and bake sale!

COME JOIN US NEXT SUNDAY!
The annual COMMUNITY EGG HUNT AND BAKE SALE MORNING TEA is on Sunday 5 April.

10am for the bake sale
🐰 Can you bake for the bake sale? Bring some goodies with a list of ingredients that we can display.

11am Egg Hunt
🐰 After a game of What's The Time Mr Wolf, kiddos run to pick up all the eggs ($5 entry per child) and then take them back to Bunny Central where they'll be divvied up and each kid gets a bag of goodies.
🐰 Don't forget your egg hunt basket!!

☕Coffee/tea/hot chocolate will be available (with cows milk, oat milk, lactose free milk, soy milk, almond milk) for free if you bring your own mug.... Otherwise $2.

It's next to the playground in the park between Miller and MacPherson Streets in O'Connor (commonly known as Finn Street Park) - so bring a picnic blanket, your egg hunt baskets, your mugs and your appetite! It's going to be a lovely morning!

This event is mainly organised to be a chance for the community to come together (with a little bit of fundraising on the side for the inner north pantries - grassroots street pantries run by locals, to help our neighbours).

08/03/2026

happy IWD and long weekend all! The inner north pantries will be having a food drive next weekend (14/15 March) outside Coles Dickson. If anyone is able to offer a couple of hours on either Saturday or Sunday to volunteer collecting donations, please get in touch 😊 💕

05/12/2025

If you're planning to do some grocery shopping this weekend - please consider Dickson Coles and Woolies! We'll be in front of Coles in Dickson this weekend, 10am to 3pm, holding our Christmas food drive ❤️🎄

What is this food drive?
Many organisations close over the end of year/new year break - and our inner north pantries see a hefty increase in demand over this time. The food drive - where people popping into woolies or Coles, get that extra can of fruit or that extra bread spread like jam or Vegemite, or that extra jar of pasta sauce - and drop it by our table.

This allows us to help stock the street pantries in the inner North that bit more over the break, to help our neighbours in need.

Who are the inner North pantries?
Ainslie Community Pantry
O'Connor Community Pantry
Watson Community Pantry
Braddon Street Pantry
North Lyneham Community Pantry
Lyneham Community Pantry

These are all street pantries, looked after by local volunteers on a daily basis, to help any neighbours in need. Open 24/7, all year, these are judgement free street pantries ready to help.

Help us help our community ❤️

What's useful to donate?
We'll have little shopping lists to share, but if you're wanting to know:
Cans of food: fruit, beans, vegetables, soups, tuna, chicken, coconut cream, sauces
Cereal: smaller in size such as WeetBix and oats
Staples: pasta, rice, sauces, soap, shampoo/conditioner, tooth paste, tea/coffee , toilet paper
Ready to eat: muesli bars, crackers, chips
Spreads: Vegemite, peanut butter, jam