Get involved – Fundraise for Kaibosh

Help Kaibosh & your community this May

We invite you to create a feel-good moment with your team this May while fundraising for Kaibosh. Get involved and your group could win a major prize! Register your event to go in the draw – link below.

Since 2008, we’ve been rescuing good, quality surplus food for people who need it. With the help from 240+ Kaibosh volunteers, over 2 million meals worth of kai is distributed every year to communities in Wellington, Hutt Valley, Porirua, Kāpiti and Horowhenua.

Now, in 2025 traditional funding for food rescue is down while community need for food support is higher than ever.

Ways to get involved

Bring your team together this May to help us stop food waste and rescue more kai for families.

Every $60 donated to Kaibosh during May will help us redistribute enough kai to feed a family of four for a week.

📅 Mark your diary & start brainstorming!

Let us know you’re keen to run an event by registering with this simple form:

Top 5 event ideas for fun fundraising within your community:

🧁 Run a bake sale or quiz night – fun for all & fun-ds for Kaibosh!

🍛 Make a shared lunch or potluck dinner – enjoy your meal then donate what you’d normally spend on a takeaway lunch.

🔥 Fire up the BBQ – everyone loves a sausage sizzle – make one happen in your neighbourhood?

✨Clothes swap? Gather secondhand goods for a clothes swap event? Or set up a Trade Me auction and donate the proceeds to Kaibosh.

💡 Host a ‘learning lunch’ for a koha – we can provide videos or a speaker (events with 25+ people) all about food rescue and the impact your donations will make for society.

Or, keep it simple and collect donations throughout May with a collection bucket at your workplace.

Feeling nostalgic? Remember Make a Meal in May? You could re-create your favourite event from the past – or get the crew back together – for a ‘Meal in May’ in 2025!

Whatever you choose to do, bring your team together for a fun event while helping people in need.

We will have plenty of social media stories, videos and posters to spread the word about our Annual Appeal month.

Your feel-good fundraising might win a prize

Your team can also go in the draw for a massive $500 DoorDash voucher to spend on delicious delivered kai! Thanks DoorDash ✨

Every registered org/group event that raises funds which are donated to Kaibosh by 20 June 2025, will go in the draw.

Where your money goes

Your donations help us rescue more good surplus kai and get it to people who need it most.

You’ll be helping to fund our important food rescue mahi & programmes:

Seven-day food rescue operation, with three food rescue hubs and 7 vehicles rescuing 65,000kg of food every month
Kaibosh Kitchens in Lower Hutt and Kāpiti – new since 2024 – turning bruised and damaged fruit and veges into nourishing kai
Second Harvest pilot – new mahi since May 2024– working with generous Horowhenua farms and growers to distribute extra produce
Volunteer Programme with 240 amazing people who donate their time to Kaibosh, together helping our local communities

Thank you for your support!

Kaibosh Food Rescue Drivers standing next to Kaibosh van at the Kaibosh Wellington depot.

Our mahi

Kaibosh is Aotearoa’s first food rescue charity founded in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara in 2008. Since then, we continue leading the way with the mahi and vision of zero food poverty and zero food waste.

Our purpose is to be the trustworthy link between the food industry and charities who are supporting people in need.

We rescue and distribute around 65,000 kg of surplus food every month to 140 local community groups and charities in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, Te Awa Kairangi, Kāpiti and Horowhenua.

Find out more in our 1 minute video.

Kaibosh Food Rescue is an incorporated Charitable Trust (2179983) which is registered with the Charities Commission (CC38367). You can claim 33.3% tax back on any donations over $5.00, at the end of the financial year.