Community Grant recipient | The Indigenous Futures Foundation

The Indigenous Futures Foundation is on a mission to help end the food crisis in First Nation communities by distributing free meals, providing hospitality training, and teaching people how to grow their own food. 

They tackle their mission with the distribution of free, healthy, nutritious meals to remote, regional and metro Indigenous communities. Distributing around 100,000 meals in a single year. 

One of their exciting new programs provides hospitality focused education to equip participants with both nutritional education and employment pathways.

Since last year, the foundation has been providing this program to residents of Cherbourg, about 250km north-west of Brisbane. The training takes place in a community café fitted out by the foundation — the first café the town of 1,200 people has had in over 20 years. The café was given a boost recently when SilverChef awarded the Indigenous Futures Foundation a community grant worth $5,000 through their Community Grants program. The foundation used the grant to buy a fully refurbished fridge and smoker for the café.

Founder of Indigenous Future Foundation, Levi-Joel Tamou, said: “Longer term, we want to get our mob back to our culture of cultivating the land, growing food, and being self-sustainable."

"SilverChef has been so generous with their community grant, enabling us to access equipment we wouldn’t normally be able to prioritise." 

Learn more about the Indigenous Futures Foundation here. 

SilverChef Community Grants program

Developed to support groups and organisations serving disadvantaged or marginalised members of our community.

You can read more about our Community Grants program here.