Bellyful New Zealand is thrilled to launch its refreshed Strategic Plan 2025–2027, a future-focused roadmap designed to ensure the organisation remains relevant and sustainable as it continues to nourish whānau and connect communities across the motu.  Read the...

Are you passionate about supporting families and communities? Do you have governance experience and the drive to help a growing charity thrive? Bellyful New Zealand is looking for dedicated individuals to join our Board. About Bellyful Bellyful nourishes whānau and...

The Bellyful Board of Trustees is delighted to present this year’s Annual Performance Report where we celebrate delivering 250,000 meals, in this, our 15th year. Read our Annual Report here It is phenomenal to think about all the time, care and aroha that has gone...

We are delighted to welcome Sheena Revington as our new Chief Executive.    Sheena is an accomplished and driven not-for-profit leader, with nearly 20 years of experience in strategy, fundraising, communications, marketing, and community engagement.  With an...

Bellyful NZ is grateful to Mills Albert for its generous gift which sees the Bellyful logo taking pride of place on Wellington Lions and Pride jerseys this provincial season. Bellyful is a national charity with a team of more than 650 volunteers, spread from Hibiscus...

Hoppy Easter!  If you need something fun for the little ones to do this Easter, we have some colouring pages they can enjoy. Just click on your chosen image below to download the colouring sheet of your choice. Bellyful Easter colouring sheets for under 5s: Bellyful...

The Bellyful Board of Trustees is delighted to present this year's Annual Performance Report. Read our Annual Performance Report here In the year to March 2023, we delivered 31,968 meals to 5,586 whānau. Bellyful NZ's positive impact, supporting whānau with babies or...

Pictured: Bellyful Wellington South volunteers have helped stock up meals for Hawke's Bay Bellyful's Wellington branches have united to help get meals to Hawke's Bay in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.   "We are all deeply saddened by the devastating images and stories...

The latest quarterly Bellyful recipient and referrer survey shows Bellyful continues to make a difference in the lives of the whānau we support, by allowing them time to focus on their babies and children. Research NZ quizzed people who referred to Bellyful, or were...

Our Auckland branches are now delivering meals again. Please be aware some of our branches are operating at reduced capacity due to the flooding and its effects on volunteers.  Please check your branch’s webpage or Facebook page for further local information. We know...

"The more support we get from people supporting the Good Registry the more we can focus on the families we cook and deliver for." Dedicated Bellyful volunteer Jacqui Jago features in The Dominion Post, as part of a special series on charities, like Bellyful, which you...

Santa is helping Bellyful raise some much-needed funds this Christmas. Anyone who makes a donation to Bellyful can order a personalised letter from Santa for the tamariki in their lives. The volunteer-driven charity cooks and delivers free, yummy meals to whānau, with...

After two years of postponements, we finally gathered around 70 of our volunteer leaders in Christchurch for our National Hui and Training Weekend from October 28-30. Having so many Belly-fillers together in one place to learn, reconnect and share was beyond valuable....

On Saturday 29 October, we gathered at Miro in Christchurch for our Heart Awards celebration. Our Heart Awards celebrate the mahi aroha of our volunteers. We have two awards: The Bellyful Enduring Heart Award is for volunteers who have been with Bellyful for more than...