Sandblaster needed for Everybody Eats
Hi Neighbours,
We need help to re-furbish our charitable restaurant in Onehunga so we can get up and running and continue feeding bellies, not bins! Can you help?
We are looking for a sandblaster to do a site visit next week to check out one of the many jobs we have to get done - we need the painted plaster blasted off to expose the original concrete walls.
Everybody Eats is a multi-award winning charitable dining concept. We take food that would otherwise go to waste and turn it into restaurant-quality meals. Our customers can pay whatever they like, even if it's nothing, for nutritious and freshly prepared food. We aim to be part of solving three huge problems we have in NZ: food waste, food poverty, and social isolation. Everybody Eats is not a soup kitchen, we provide our diners with a three-course meal served at shared tables, which encourages them to interact with our volunteers and other diners.
The pay-as-you-feel model is inclusive; it allows people who can afford to pay for a meal to do so, and perhaps contribute to future meals while giving more vulnerable people an opportunity to enjoy a dignified experience without feeling any guilt or stigma. We work almost exclusively with food that would otherwise go to waste which we get from New World and Kiwiharvest mostly. We are hugely collaborative and work with a lot of NZ's top chefs including Josh Emmet, Ben Bayly, Javier Carmona and Dariush Lolaiy.
We have been running a very busy and successful pop-up at Auckland's Gemmayze St. We operated permanently for 6 months in Avondale before realising we needed our own, larger, purpose-designed premise. We have a lease starting 1 July of an amazing building in Onehunga that we need to convert into something special for the community to come together.
We are hoping you will see this as a great way to get involved in a local project, helping those in need and bringing the community together, so will be able to provide labour free or at cost to support our fit out. What we can offer in return is exposure through our social media channels - Facebook, just under 11k and Instagram just under 5.5k. Because we are a charity we get really good organic reach and have one of the highest engagement rates I know of, which means we get a lot of likes, comments and clicks compared to most.
You can contact me through here or call/text me on 021856884 or email ajbutlander9@gmail.com
Thanks for your time
Amanda Butland
Volunteer Coordinator/Restaurant Manager
Everybody Eats
www.everybodyeats.nz...
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