17/08/2026
🌱Announcement! Project Fresh Start is evolving – from food relief towards food empowerment 🎉
After the September school holidays, we will be making some changes to the way we support our community through food.
Our Community Fridges at Orwil Street headspace Frankston and Windana Frankston will begin offering bags of ingredients with simple, easy-to-read recipes rather than our usual ready-made meals. (Think Hello Fresh model but free of course)
Where possible, some ingredients will already be chopped, measured or prepared to make cooking easier and more accessible.
🌱Why are we changing? Because we want food support to do more than solve tonight's dinner.
We want people to have opportunities to build confidence, learn simple recipes, discover affordable meals they can make themselves and develop skills they can use again and again.
We also understand that not everyone has access to a kitchen or is in a position to prepare their own meals.
For this reason, our Bloom Cafe Community Fridge will continue to be stocked with freshly cooked, ready-to-eat meals as we understand this is frequented by our community members experiencing homelessness.
Our Supported Volunteer Pathway Program will continue cooking for Bloom every Wednesday night, and our FLC students will continue cooking meals for their own Community Fridge in the student volunteer program.
Our Community Lunches will remain the same at Orwil Street Community House Inc with a few changes.
We will be simplifying our lunch menus a little, because one of the biggest things we have learned is that the real magic of these lunches isn't the number of different dishes on the table.
It is people sitting together, talking, laughing, being welcomed and feeling part of a community.
Simpler menus will also mean our incredible kitchen volunteers can spend less of the lunch working away in a separate kitchen and more time sitting down and sharing the meal with everyone else.
Because our volunteers deserve to be part of that connection too 🌱❤️😊
