Attached is a comprehensive List of steps, with tips for setting up a food outreach activity:
Tips to get started

This material may be useful in assisting information for display or use while delivering your food service

Posters for downloading


Food Safety Information Council - Food Safety Poster (warning: > 3 Mb download): USEFUL FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES

Food Safety Information Council - Useful Fact Sheets for down loading on Food safety - at Christmas, party time, barbeque time, eating outdoors, knowing your fridge, temp danger zone, shopping, food poisoning and cross-contamination etc: USEFUL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS TO USE

Food Safety Matters - Simple, visual Posters on 'how to' keep hands clean, kitchen clean, hot food hot/cold food cold, handle food safely, prevent food poisoning. USEFUL FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES

ACT Health - A Youth Worker's Guide to Nutrition for Young People - resource (Free for non profit organisations) - USEFUL EDUCATIONAL GUIDE FOR SERVICES PROVIDNG HANDS ON ASSISTANCE

Australian Government and State Initiative: gofor2and5 website - includes recipes and tips to reach the 2and5 target.

Healthy Pyramid Posters ($3.50 each) plus many other food promotion posters: Nutrition Australia order form

OR

Go to http://nutritionaustralia.org/ follow links to - on the bookshelf - publications - order form.

Fresh Food for Kids - Canteen site. This web page is regularly updated and filled with useful information about food and its nutritional value, with quick and simple recipes for families and kids, based on seasonal availability.

Health Promotion Resources for the ACT – ORDER FORM (free)

ACT CISM

ACT Critical Incident Stress Management Information service Inc. A great resource for front line services who from time to time deal with difficult or aggressive behavior. CISM offers free/discounted training sessions and a 24 x 7 Crisis Line (upon application)

Red Cross

Food Safety Auditor and Food Safety Supervisor

• Kitchen inspections and assistance with food safety procedures.
• Food Safety information sessions with question answer advice.

Contact details:

• Jan McKenzie
• jmckenzie@redcross.org.au
• (02) 6287-4311

(sometimes Red Cross asks for a fee, but not often)

ACT Health - Health Protection Services - Kitchen Inspections

Environmental Health Officers do routine health and safety kitchen inspections in compliance with the ACT Food Act 2001 for all registered businesses. If you would like assistance in setting up a ‘kitchen’, OR advice on whether or not to register your food service this government agency will guide you through the process.
Contact details:
Phone: (02) 6205 1700
Email: hps@act.gov.au

TRAHCS

Is a Registered Training Organisation with experience in delivering training to the Community Services and Health Industries. They run vocational courses for skilling staff and will also tailor workshops and training sessions on food handling or risk management with clients for a small fee.

Useful sites for developing a formal project plan with a view for analysis and sustainability:

Community Tool Box - Community Development Tool Kit: Best Processes and Practices that Promote Community Change and Improvement.

Guidelines for participatory nutrition projects

Evaluating Community projects - A Practical Guide

ACT Funding/Grants options:

Current funding application processes are under review following the recent 2006 ACT budget announcement where all ACT government Departments are being reviewed.

Current ACT Health Promotion Grants (formerly Healthpact) links:

ACT Government Health Information - Funding Opportunities

ACT Government Health Information - ACT Health Promotion Grants (Formerly Healthpact)

ACT Health Promotion Unit

Organisations and resources which provide funding, or information about funding for programs and research in the ACT and nationally.

Community Inclusion Fund

(Building our Community - The Canberra Social Plan)

Federal Grant Link

(useful for one offs such as the VSEG-Volunteers Small Equipment Grant)

The Snow Foundation

provides funding for medical research, hospitals and other institutions directed to alleviate suffering and to promote well-being in the populace.

How to use Foodbank

Foodbank NSW is a non-denominational, not-for-profit charitable organisation, which can deliver food to the ACT that aims to provide bulk food at low cost for community organisations.

What is FoodBank?

Do you intend approaching a local food supplier/service for donations? Here is a basic template for written requests:
Proforma - Food Donation Request

Nutrition Australia - Community Food Security - Bibliography of references and resources (a great starting point for research on food insecurity):

VICHEALTH Website - a great health Promotion site with information on Food Insecurity, Healthy Eating, Programs and Advocacy OR go straight to programs and projects - Healthy Eating

Community Garden Development

Food Project Toolkit UK

Food Redistribution Assessment 2005

Gardening and Wellbeing in UK 2005

(overview of government support services-other important departmental contacts)

ACT Health

ACT Health Promotion

ACT EAT WELL - a public health Nutrition plan 2004-2010