Sandro Demaio Foundation

Little Food Festival 2025

Little Food Festival 2025

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 ...

GOAL

$45,000

Australia > VIC > Metro
16/04/2025 > 17/04/2025

Field of Interest

  • Environment conservation and climate change
  • Health/wellbeing and medical research

Target Population

  • Early years (0-5)
  • Young people (6-25)
Sandro Demaio Foundation Sandro Demaio Foundation

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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