Foodbank Victoria is a statewide emergency food relief agency, tasked with leading food relief efforts in emergency situations (including natural disasters) and providing food relief to vulnerable people across the state on a day-to-day basis. At their November 2025 meeting, Sidney Myer Fund Trustees approved a new grant of $1 million over four years to support this vital work.

Growing inequality means more and more Australians are unable to access food in the quantity and quality they need to live an active and healthy life. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that over 13 percent of households (or 1.3 million Australians) experience this kind of food insecurity. Lone parent households with dependent children are the most likely households to experience food insecurity. Indeed, Foodbank Victoria’s recent Hunger Report estimates that in the last year over 400,000 Victorian children lived in households which skip meals or go days without food.

Foodbank Victoria was established in 1930 as the State Relief Committee in response to the Great Depression. It now feeds 69,000 Victorians every day. The Sidney Myer Fund’s grant brings to $2 million across the last three years in grants to support food security, with other recipients being FareShare, Loaves and Fishes Tasmania and The One Box.