For the Moments That Matter

This May, show your love for mums by donating a meal. Give them more time for the moments that matter.

You can help mums like Kyla.

When Kyla’s newborn was hospitalised, life became a blur of sleepless nights, medical stress, and juggling her toddler at home. That’s when Bellyful stepped in, delivering warm, nourishing meals and a moment of relief.

“Bellyful meant my husband could eat after work without going home to cook. It meant I could be with my kids.” — Kyla

To Kyla, the volunteers were “superstars”, offering her whānau something they desperately needed: a break.

This May, you can give that gift to another mum.

Sibling love! Kyla’s two gorgeous little ones.

SUPPORT A MUM TODAY

Your Donation Makes a Real Difference

Each $20 will help provide a home-style meal for a local whānau:

Macaroni cheese
Lasagne or bolognese
Vege curry or soup

Whatever the dish, your donation helps a mum feel supported, not alone, during some of life’s hardest moments.

💛 $20 = one meal for a whānau
💛 $60 = three nights of dinner
💛 $100 = a stocked hospital freezer

Your support also helps fill the freezers in neonatal and special care baby units across Aotearoa so that exhausted parents arriving in crisis can find something warm, hearty, and ready to eat.

This Mother’s Day, give the gift of time.
Give a meal. Give love. Give a mum a moment that matters.

DONATE NOW

A Little Something for You

This May, when you make a donation, you’ll automatically go in the draw to win an incredible coffee lovers’ prize pack. It includes a Breville Bambino espresso machine, a Dose coffee grinder, and a 1-month subscription to freshly roasted beans from Flight Coffee, valued at $786.45.

It’s all thanks to the generous support of Go Generosity and Flight Coffee. It’s our way of giving a little pick-me-up to someone who’s always looking out for others.

Want to know more about Bellyful?

Bellyful cooks and delivers free meals to whānau, with babies or young children, who need support. Last year alone, over 600 volunteers cooked and delivered 34,742 meals to 5,762 whānau all over New Zealand.

Bellyful is a nationwide organisation. We have 25 branches – seven in the South Island and 18 in the North Island. More than 250,000 meals have been delivered since being founded in in 2009 in Franklin (south of Auckland) by Jacqui Ritchie. You can read her story here.

Meals are cooked by a team of volunteers in a Cookathon, then packaged and frozen. Referrals are received from Plunket nurses, midwives, community social workers, family and friends and recipients themselves. Meals are then delivered by volunteers.

We are incredibly grateful for the community support – together we’re filling bellies across Aotearoa. Kei runga noa atu!

Bellyful NZ is a registered charity (CC44225). Donations fund ingredients, packaging, and delivery of meals to whānau across Aotearoa, and help support our amazing volunteers in their mahi aroha.

Such a pleasure catching up with Melanie Kennerley