The Herald is profiling 12 charities awarded $10,000 each from Auckland Airport's Twelve Days of Christmas community giving tradition. Each grant is thanks to generous travelers who placed unwanted currency into money boxes dotted around the terminals in 2024.

NZ Herald, 17 2024.

The cost of living crisis was reported to be the number one reason for recipients seeking kai relief (88%), followed by low individual/household income (70%), and unemployment (65%).

NZ Herald, 3 Oct 2024.

The 13 Million Thanks event saw guests treated to a rescued lunch prepared and served by renowned KiwiHarvest Collective chefs, Michael Meredith (Mr Morris, Merediths, Metita), and Brent Martin (Park Hyatt, Onemata).

Hospitality Business Magazine, 20 September 2024.

New research released today reveals New Zealand households have made remarkable progress in reducing food waste in the past year, cutting the annual amount wasted by an estimated $300 million in the past year alone from $3.2 to $2.9 billion.

Scoop, 7 September 2024.

IHG Hotels & Resorts is launching its third annual ‘Stay for Good’ campaign in support of Australia’s leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest, and its New Zealand-based sister organisation, KiwiHarvest, to donate meals to people in need throughout the month of September.

Hotel Management, 11 September 2024.

Two hundred and twenty three thousand kilograms — that’s how much food KiwiHarvest’s Invercargill branch rescues each year. This translates to 450,000 meals for Southland families in need.

Stuff, 2 September 2024.

“Game-changing”, “awesome” and “transformational” are just some of the things that past participants have said about how Wastebusters’ new programme changes the way they shop for and plan their weekly meals. Welcome to Every Bite.

Lakes Weekly, 13 August 2024.

Queenstown Airport is joining forces with food rescue charity KiwiHarvest to help the community and the planet. KiwiHarvest tackles two big problems with one clever solution. It collects good food before it goes to waste and gets it to those in need.

Airports Council International, 5 August 2024.

Data revealed to the Herald by KiwiHarvest, a national food rescue organisation that collects surplus and donated food and distributes it throughout New Zealand, paints a grim picture of the struggles hard working families are enduring to make ends meet.

NZ Herald, 6 Aug 2024.

What if I told you that the face of food insecurity is changing? Data from the New Zealand Food Network found that on average, over a third of their Food Hubs’ monthly recipients have never needed to seek their support before. At KiwiHarvest, we’re also hearing from our frontline recipient charities that they’re seeing dual-income families coming to them needing kai for their families.Description goes here

NZ Herald, 31 July 2024.

East Auckland business KiwiHarvest is making significant strides to reduce food waste and alleviate food insecurity in New Zealand. The organisation was recently recognised for its work when it was named the winner of the Excellence in Community Impact category at the Business East Tamaki East Auckland Business Awards.

Times, 15 July 2024.

Driven by a belief that every New Zealander should have access to nutritious food, and people should not throw away food good enough to eat, KiwiHarvest founder Deborah Manning started her food-sharing journey in Dunedin 12 years ago from the back of her green Honda hatchback.

Otago Daily Times, 4 June 2024.

Christopher Luxon visited our humble KiwiHarvest Auckland warehouse last week. We swept the floors, ironed our shirts, and practised our pitch. It was a chance to showcase the impact of our work - offering a lifeline to communities by redirecting edible surplus food from landfills to those in need.

NZ Herald, 29 May 2024.

The man on top (Christopher Luxon) said it himself: “We have record numbers of middle-income working New Zealand using foodbanks across the country”. Food rescues like KiwiHarvest offer a lifeline to communities by redirecting good and edible surplus food from landfills to those in need. From the 40-plus food rescues currently operating in Aotearoa, the amount of food distributed equates to $70m worth of purchased food annually, operating on a mere fraction of that budget (which is getting slashed every year).

NZ Herald, 10 April 2024.

Data published by HelloFresh shows that three quarters (76.4%) of Kiwis surveyed say they understand current food labelling, more than half (55.5%) say they discard food past its best before as they’re afraid it will make them sick.

Scoop, 20 March 2024.

Aotearoa’s largest food rescue organisation KiwiHarvest, is focused on meeting demand as research from the Ministry of Health* reveals that the number of Kiwi children experiencing food insecurity has seen the largest year-on-year jump in over a decade.

Scoop, 11 March 2024

Nationwide, an estimated 1000 people including 750 Filipino workers lost their jobs when five ELE companies went into receivership last week. In Auckland, construction industry and community groups teamed up at Kiwi Harvest in East Tāmaki to help laid-off ELE Group workers today.

NZ Herald, 28 December 2023

Across every job I’ve worked at, the common question when calendars flick over to November is, ‘What the **** are we going to give for Christmas gifts this year?’ Whether it’s for staff, clients, or partners, businesses always want to ensure no one misses out on that holiday magic. But for so many Kiwis, it’s getting harder to capture that magic as they try to survive a cost of living crisis and growing food insecurity.

NZ Herald, 5 December 2023

New Zealand creates an astonishing amount of food waste while also having high levels of food insecurity. KiwiHarvest is a charity that is using these two issues to solve each other. “The goal is to put ourselves out of a job.” That’s Angela Calver CEO of KiwiHarvest’s response when asked what she wants her organisation to achieve. KiwiHarvest offers one clever solution to two huge problems: food waste and food insecurity. 

The Spinoff, 28 November 2023

Sony Music Group (SMG) today announced its second-annual giving campaign together with its global roster of artists and songwriters. Beginning in November, the Company will make donations to organizations addressing food insecurity, homelessness and education around the world for its ‘Season of Giving’ program.

Sony Music, 26 October 2023

New Zealanders are wasting less food, but the cost of what’s being thrown out has risen to $3.2 billion a year, a survey suggests. The Rabobank-KiwiHarvest Food Waste survey of 1500 found households were throwing away 12.2 per cent of the food they bought, down from 13.4 per cent last year.

RNZ, 27 September 2023

Aotearoa’s largest food rescue organisation, KiwiHarvest, is bringing back The Goodness Gala with esteemed guests to raise funding for the charity’s operations and help them to feed an estimated 170,000 Kiwis experiencing food insecurity. Launched as the KiwiHarvest Collective earlier this year, culinary supergroup, Peter Gordon, Michael Meredith, Brent Martin, Kylee Newton and Alfie Ingham will be designing and preparing the stunning 4-course menu, including high-quality ingredients diverted from landfill and rescued by KiwiHarvest for this fabulous black-tie event.

Scoop, 16 August 2023

Rugby World Champion Black Fern Portia Woodman-Wickliffe is on a mission to end food waste with the help of HelloFresh and KiwiHarvest.

NZ Herald, 7 June 2023

Each year, around 150,000 tonnes, or 271 jumbo jets of food, end up in landfills. Now, a group of celebrity chefs have now joined forces in an effort to help reduce the amount that’s thrown away. Peter Gordon, Michael Meredith, Kylee Newton, Brent Martin, and Alfie Ingham; it’s a star line-up of chefs on a mission to save imperfect produce that’s still perfectly good to eat.

1news.co.nz, 28 April 2023

With a desire to focus on significance rather than success, in 2011 Deborah dropped her career as a lawyer to research the concept of food rescue. She went on to develop KiwiHarvest, an organisation that rescues quality surplus food and diverts it to people across New Zealand who are struggling.

Cuisine.co.nz, 8 March 2024