The Little Food Festival is Australia’s first and only food festival for kids! The time is now. We have a once in a generation chance to help our kids understand that they have the power to change their future. Early childhood experiences profoundly change how our kids understand the world around them. And what we ...
Sandro Demaio Foundation
Little Food Festival 2025

GOAL
$45,000
Field of Interest
- Environment conservation and climate change
- Health/wellbeing and medical research
Target Population
- Early years (0-5)
- Young people (6-25)

Food is our tool. Health, community, and environment, are our focus. We are innovators and disruptors, striving to make nutritious, real and sustainable food accessible, affordable and available for all. We want to inspire and empower Australians to make positive changes to their health, their environment and their community through food.
At the Sandro Demaio Foundation, we want food to become our tool for real change. Our vision is to promote food as a real and simple way to transform our food system to make it fair, healthy and sustainable.
To help achieve this, the Sandro Demaio Foundation is proud to present the Little Food Festival together with a team of founding partners.
Established in 2018, the Sandro Demaio Foundation is a not for profit charity that aims to develop disruptive, new solutions to improve the health of all Australians, with a focus on food.
Project Summary
The Little Food Festival is Australia’s first and only food festival for kids!
The time is now. We have a once in a generation chance to help our kids understand that they have the power to change their future. Early childhood experiences profoundly change how our kids understand the world around them.
And what we teach kids about good food, the foods items and the environment today, creates the building blocks for what their food habits will look like in the future.
The Little Food Festival is an opportunity to re-write what the future will look like for our kids and planet. The Festival is made up of activation zones that represent each stage of the food system. During the April 2025 school holidays, kids will roll up their sleeves up to plant seedlings, dive into the world of bush food, unleash their creativity in craft activities, master the art of preparing nutritious meals and more!
Project Outcomes
At the 2024 event, we impacted over 10,000 kids and families and we are looking to expand our reach in 2025. This also includes launching a Festival in Regional Victoria (Bendigo) and working with our partners to establish an in-schools program that delivers food systems education in the school environment, thought out the year.
Budget Breakdown
TOTAL BUDGET: $160,000
FUNDING
Funding source | Amount |
---|---|
Monash University (confirmed) | $10,000 |
AIA Australia (confirmed) | $35,000 |
City of Melbourne (confirmed) | $35,000 |
Gandel Foundation (confirmed) | $25,000 |
Demaio Family (confirmed) | $45,000 |
Funding gap (unconfirmed) | $45,000 |
EXPENSES
Expense item | Amount |
---|---|
Main Stage and roming performances | $20,000 |
Activation activities and workshops | $40,000 |
Event changes | $25,000 |
Promotion and collateral | $30,000 |
Event management project costs | $60,000 |
Research and evaluation costs | $10,000 |
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