1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: We are coming to your life this morning from the 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Mitchell Center and we're just outside Coles now if you 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: haven't been listening throughout the morning, we are here for. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 2: A wonderful cause. It's for Food Bank that. 5 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Each year they have their Christmas Hamper Appeal and it's 6 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: on again and well we're calling on the local community 7 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: to support Territorians in need throughout the month of November. 8 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Now joining me to tell us a little bit more 9 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: about it is the CEO of Food Bank here in 10 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, Peter Pills. 11 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Peter. 12 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,479 Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, and good morning to everyone who's listening. 13 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: Mate. Food Bank does such a phenomenal job and over 14 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: a number of years in the territory, I've seen the 15 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: wonderful work that you guys do and this Hamper appeal 16 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: is such an important part of what you do. 17 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: Is nash it really is. 18 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 4: You know, people that are are food insecure throughout the year. 19 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 4: It's exacerbated at Christmas time because Christmas time is meant 20 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 4: to be a happy time and people that can't afford 21 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 4: food it just makes it worse. And so what we 22 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 4: want to do at food Bank Empty is to have 23 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 4: a Christmas Hamper Appeal like we do every year, and 24 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 4: we're doing it again this year so that we can 25 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 4: bring a smile to people's faces at Christmas time. 26 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: It's such a great I just think it's such a 27 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: great way that you do things at Christmas time because 28 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: you guys always say it's not about a handout for people, 29 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: it's about a hand up. 30 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: And I think that that's a really nice way of 31 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 2: talking about. 32 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: It because a lot of people don't want to be 33 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: in a situation where they've got to go to food bank. 34 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 2: That's true, and you know, and the fact that you 35 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 2: make it so nice. 36 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: And easy for people, for Territorians, I just think it's 37 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: wonderful the way that it's done. 38 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's what it's about. It. 39 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 4: It's about sharing food with dignity and being able to 40 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 4: meet people's needs again without shame or anything like that. 41 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 4: And it's just been fantastic just to be down here 42 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 4: this morning and to see Territorians just going into cohles 43 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 4: we give them a little list of things that they 44 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 4: can purchase and coming out and filling up our purple bins. 45 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 3: That have been absolutely fantastic. 46 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 4: So this year we're looking at increasing the number of 47 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 4: hampers last year we did seven hundred and fifty and 48 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 4: we're going to one. 49 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: Thousand hampers this year. 50 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,639 Speaker 4: And we're running a program called Hampers to the Heart 51 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 4: and we're taking two hundred and fifty here or three hundred, 52 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 4: actually three hundred hampers down to Catherine Tennant Creek and 53 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 4: Alice Springs in the first week in December. 54 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: Is this the first time that you've taken those hampers 55 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: on the road to those other town centers. 56 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 4: It is, And I just want to give a shout 57 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 4: out to Newmont Minds who have actually sponsored the Hampers 58 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 4: to the Heart program, which has been absolutely fantastic and 59 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 4: so we appreciate their generosity. And so it's not just 60 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 4: the top end territories that we're helping, but right down 61 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 4: through to the heart of Australia. 62 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: That's a fantastic thing to do and well done to Newmont. 63 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: I just think it's so important that some of our 64 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 1: larger organizations around the territory are helping out and helping 65 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: such a wonderful cause. 66 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: Now, in terms of what. 67 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: You would like to see people bringing down this morning, 68 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: what do you want them to, what do you want 69 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: them to purchase when they're in coals. 70 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 3: Well, Christmas y things, yeah. 71 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 4: Like Christmas pudding, maybe pancake mix, maybe some lollies, maybe 72 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 4: some chocolate biscuits. 73 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: You know, things that people that are. 74 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 4: Food insecure wouldn't normally necessarily because they're going to purchase 75 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 4: the essentials. But we just want to bring a smile 76 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 4: to people's faces at Christmas time, and particularly kids. So 77 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 4: you know, if you think, you know, if you had 78 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 4: if you had young kids on Christmas Day and they're 79 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 4: getting up for Christmas lunch, what do you want them 80 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 4: to eat? And so they're the kind of things that 81 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 4: we want people to purchase. 82 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, speaking about the fact that the hamper numbers 83 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: have obviously gone up, the number that you're wanting to 84 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: get out seven hundred and fifty last year, one thousand 85 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: this year, and you're taking some on the road. Have 86 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: you found over the COVID period that your service has 87 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: become even more important to territory? 88 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: Absolutely huge. 89 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 4: In the June quarter, our demand increase by sixty one percent, 90 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 4: which equates to eighty six thousand extra meals going through 91 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 4: the warehouse out at Berrima just those in that three 92 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: month period. 93 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: So in a normal month. 94 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 4: We put through our warehouse about forty five two hundred 95 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 4: meals and so we were doing that, but then across 96 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 4: that June quarter it was eighty six thousand additional meals. 97 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: And it's unbelievable. 98 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 4: Because now the job keeper and job seeker payments have 99 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 4: been wound back, we're now starting to see through our 100 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 4: Food for Life hubs. We're starting to see an increase 101 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 4: in demand there because people again are feeling food insecure. 102 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 4: So our Food for Life hubs is where the where 103 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 4: members of the public can actually shop through us. So 104 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 4: they can't shop out the breham A Warehouse, but they 105 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 4: can through our Food. 106 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 3: For Life hubs. 107 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 2: Now where are some of those Food for Life hubs? 108 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: If anybody is out there listening this morning, who's thinking, oh, 109 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: how do I find out a bit more about this? 110 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 2: Where do I go? 111 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 3: Well? N one. You can go to our website and 112 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: find out more information there. You can ring out breham 113 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 3: A Warehouse if you want locations. 114 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 4: But our closest one here is Darwin Baptist Church and 115 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 4: it's on a Friday morning. It's on the corner of 116 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 4: Ross Miller Drive and the Stuart Highway and nine till 117 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 4: twelve and you've got to have a healthcare card or 118 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 4: a pension card. But you turn up there and we 119 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 4: have a whole range of food, meats, bread, milk that 120 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 4: you can purchase. 121 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 3: At a low cost. 122 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: Now I know plenty of people will be listening this morning, 123 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: maybe in their offices, their workshops wherever they work this morning, 124 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: or whether they're driving around and they might not be 125 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: able to get here for this morning's food drive. When 126 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: can they donate if they're not able to get here today. 127 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 3: Well, we are right throughout November. 128 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 4: Every weekend, Saturday and Sunday, we are in many many 129 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 4: places like next Saturday we are in Casuarina Square and 130 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 4: Woolworth's Nightcliff, and then the following weekend we're at cool 131 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 4: A Linga Cole's and cool Olinga Woolworths and also Darwin 132 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 4: City Warwors. So there's a whole series of different places. 133 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 4: And again if people want to ring Food Bank NT 134 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 4: out of Brima, we can certainly tell them where they 135 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 4: can go. If people can't get to a store and 136 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,559 Speaker 4: they still want to donate, they can either bring food 137 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 4: out to the warehouse or they can get onto our 138 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 4: Food Bank NT website, which is just a matter of 139 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 4: just going to a Google food bank food Bank Australia 140 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 4: and it will throw you to the NT website and 141 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 4: you can donate financially. 142 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 2: How much food do we want to gather? 143 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: More than enough? More than enough. 144 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 4: I would love to be able to say to my team, look, guys, 145 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 4: we've got too much food. A thousand hampers. We were 146 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 4: thinking too small, We're during fifteen hundred. 147 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: That'd be amazing there. The more food we can gather, 148 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 3: the better it is. 149 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: So what about if there's a business listening this morning 150 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: who thinks will I actually want to donate some cash? 151 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: Can they do that so that their you guys can 152 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: obviously you know, purchase other food. 153 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 4: Absolutely, and cash is good because what we want to 154 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 4: do is sometimes as we're packing hampers, we go, okay, 155 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 4: we're short two hundred Christmas puddings, and so we do 156 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 4: have to buy some things to make sure that there's 157 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 4: a consistency amongst the hampers. 158 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 3: So well, cash is an important part of that. And 159 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 3: so if there's any businesses out there that want to. 160 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 4: Donate cash, they can again go through the food bank website. 161 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 4: They can bring I mean, they can ring us up 162 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 4: and we'll give them the bank details or hate I'll 163 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 4: personally come and pick up cash. 164 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: Mate. I can't speak highly enough about the wonderful work 165 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: that Food Bank do. And I just think in a 166 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: year like we've been hit, if there are going to 167 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: be people who don't necessarily feel overly comfortable with you know, 168 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: with needing a hand but they do need a bit 169 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: of a hand up. And the work that you guys 170 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: do is so wonderful. It gives people, you know, they 171 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: keep they've got their dignity, They're able to come and 172 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: get that support that they need, and I just think 173 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. 174 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, I'm new to the NT. I moved up 175 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 3: in January for the job. 176 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 4: And look, I've just you know, through COVID obviously it 177 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 4: just messed with everything, but I've just appreciated that the 178 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 4: leaning of corporates in you know, across the top end, 179 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 4: like the Impacts Impacts is here at the moment, and 180 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,679 Speaker 4: we've appreciated the support of Impacts, South thirty two and Newmont. 181 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 4: I mean, they've just all been fantastic. But then there's 182 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 4: the individual territories. And again, as I'm watching people come 183 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 4: out of coals with you know boxes. 184 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 3: There was one lady here. 185 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 4: She bought her son down and she said, I've specifically 186 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 4: come down to do a food bank shop, and so 187 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 4: she went into Coles, bought a whole stack of stuff, 188 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 4: put it in the in the in the bin. 189 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 3: It's just absolutely fantastic. That nice. It's got to be 190 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 3: one of the best places in the world to live 191 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: for sure. 192 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: I can't speak highly enough about the territory. Everyone move here. 193 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 3: I'm loving the territory. 194 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: Will Peter Pelt, CEO of food Bank, lovely to speak 195 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: to you this morning. I think we'll catch up again 196 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: a little bit later and find out how things are going. 197 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 2: But good on you guys. We'll talk to you again 198 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 2: later on. 199 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 3: Thanks Katie.