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Has Bellyful made a difference in your life? Whether you’ve received meals, volunteered, or supported us, we’d love to hear your story! Your experience helps us inspire others and show the impact of a warm meal and a caring community.
Colour your Easter with Bellyful
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...
From Grief to Gratitude
Cooking dinner can be the last thing on your mind when wading through the depths of grief. Bellyful made sure a Dunedin mum had some meals in the freezer to help through the dual emotion of losing one of her twins, and welcoming his brother. A close friend referred...
Annual Performance Report 2022/23
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...
Bellyful volunteer a Local Heroes finalist
Congratulations to Bellyful Central Auckland volunteer Mhairi Freer who is a finalist in the Westfield Newmarket Local Heroes. Vote here Mhairi has been a Bellyful volunteer for seven years and we think the reasons she is so special are best summed up in the...
Why do you love volunteering for Bellyful?
National Volunteer Week 18-24 June 2023 honours the collective energies and mana of volunteers in Aotearoa. This year’s theme is Time to Shine – He wā pīataata. It’s a time to recognise and celebrate our volunteers and their time to shine – pīataata. A few of our...
“Don’t know what I would have done without Bellyful”
An Auckland mum says Bellyful meals were a lifesaver during the exhausting haze of life with a newborn. Nicole was referred to Bellyful West Auckland by a close family friend who was also expecting. They had been discussing how they would manage cooking after their...
Watch: Mission to refill Bellyful Hawke’s Bays freezers
Our Wellington branches have cooked extra meals to help whānau in Hawke's Bay. Bellyful Hawke's Bay had to cancel a planned Cookathon due to Cyclone Gabrielle. This meant its freezers were near empty. Bellyful's Wellington branches came up with a plan to cook extra...
Bellyful rallies to help following catastrophic weather
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...
“A lifesaver” – survey shows Bellyful’s ongoing impact
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...
Auckland flooding update: Bellyful deliveries resume
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...
One Less Thing to Worry About
Welcoming their twin boys at just 27 weeks was a tumultuous time for North Canterbury couple Heather and Matt. Bellyful was able to make things a little easier by delivering some yummy, freshly-cooked meals. Twin boys Mack and Monty were born via emergency caesarean...
Christmas Appeal: Nurturing families one feed at a time
"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 raising funds for Bellyful with letter writing campaign
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...
Our hearts are full after our National Hui and Training Weekend
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....
Bellyful NZ appoints new CEO
The Bellyful Board of Trustees is delighted to announce that Fiona Purchas has been appointed Bellyful NZ Chief Executive Officer, commencing 28 November 2022. “This is a very exciting time for Bellyful NZ as the organisation seeks to strengthen its mahi further,’...
Annual Performance Report 2021/22
We are pleased to present the 2021/22 Performance Report for the Bellyful New Zealand Trust. We are proud of the impact our team has had this year despite the unique and ongoing challenges the pandemic has presented. Thank you to the national support team of staff and...
Heart Award winners celebrated in Christchurch
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...
2022 Support My Cause recipient: Bellyful West Auckland
An employee at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners New Zealand (CCEP NZ) has nominated Bellyful West Auckland to receive a $10,000 donation through the company’s new community funding programme, Support My Cause. West Auckland Bellyful Branch Coordinator, Tracy Cox, said...
When the little things come first
The Times Online looks at the work of Bellyful East Auckland's passionate volunteers, as the branch marks nine years of supporting local whānau. The Bellyful East Auckland cooks gather once a month at the Howick Salvation Army kitchen to prepare, package and freeze...
Full Circle
When Sarah Kerby stepped up to start Bellyful Nelson in 2018, she could never have imagined that just a few years later the charity would be helping her own whānau through a gruelling journey. Early this year Sarah’s gorgeous four-year-old son Willy had a series of...
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