Upwey charity, Bayswater Red Coral Seafood and chefs partner to help on Mother’s Day
Leading Aussie chefs are volunteering to help out with a giant Mother’s Day charity event to help pamper the vulnerable mums in the outer east. Do you know someone who is vulnerable and deserves a pack?
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Leading Australian chefs have joined with businesses and charity groups to make this Mother’s Day special for vulnerable people experiencing isolation.
Chef-cooked meals and a luxury pamper packs will be delivered to 500 people in the outer east as part of the charity event, The Big Mother’s Day Drive 2020.
Upwey non-profits Foothills Community Care and Community Casseroles have joined with Bayswater family-owned Red Coral Seafood to help vulnerable people — and nominations for worthy recipients are open.
The team of chefs preparing the meals include Dylan Kemp, who won Chef of the Year at the Australian Hotels Association Victorian awards in 2019, Telina Menzies from Dirty Birdie and Fraser’s Restaurant executive chef Chris Taylor.
Heidelberg West-based social enterprise SecondBite will donate rescued luxury ingredients for the food drive, Mr Barrington said.
Pinchapoo from Bayswater — a group that distributes rescued toiletries and personal hygiene produces — will donate luxury pamper packs.
The meals will be prepared in Albert Park, then driven to the Foothills Community Kitchen and Red Coral Seafood for distribution but a fleet of volunteer drivers on Saturday.
Foothills Community Care founder Stephen Barrington said the group had provided more than 9000 meals yearly to people in the outer east community and run meal nights for 20 years.
Mr Barrington said with social distancing in place community meal nights had been replaced by takeaway meal packs and demand has skyrocketed from 200 to 600 meals a week.
“The group is now feeling the pinch as opportunities for fundraising dry up,” he said.
“We have lost most of our external fundraising as events we catered for organisations to raise money have been cancelled.
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“We are running this fundraising drive to help raise the $250,000 we need to keep supporting the local community as this demand continues.”
Bayswater family-run business Red Coral Seafood general manager Tass Marinopoulos said he wanted to work with a charity to do something for the special mums, grandmothers, daughters and others during this tough time.
Nominations or requests for a meal and donations are all via Foothills Community Care.