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Good in the Hood, our meals partnership
How a local charity and our hub deliver more than twenty thousand meals, hampers and snack packs a year.
Good in the Hood is a local charity that now delivers more than twenty thousand meals, hampers and snack packs a year across Balmain, Lilyfield, Birchgrove and Rozelle. They describe their real work as tackling loneliness, and the food as the thing that gets a volunteer to the door.
They grew up alongside this centre, and the two organisations have been working together since the beginning. Their cooking nights run in our kitchen. Our food relief runs on their volunteers.
It started with twenty meals
In March 2020 a local restaurateur offered twenty free meals for neighbours doing it tough. Vinnies Rozelle and this centre, then the Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre, helped get them to the right doors. It has not stopped since.
They bring the people, we bring the place
Good in the Hood brings the volunteers, the home cooks and the local restaurants. We bring the hub at Rozelle, the kitchen, the referral network and the back office. Neither half works without the other.
Over a hundred volunteers a week
Every week more than a hundred people prepare rescued food, cook, pack and deliver. Most of them live within a few streets of the person they are delivering to.
The meal is the excuse
Volunteers knock, and they stay a minute. Good in the Hood exists as much to interrupt loneliness as to feed anyone, and the people who deliver will tell you they got as much out of it as they gave.
Last reviewed 17 September 2026 by Steven Lowrie, Governance and Case Management Lead. Rules and funding can change. If something here does not match your situation, ask us.
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