Vedanta Soup Kitchen

Feeding the Community

Vedanta Soup Kitchen provides free meals and grocery hampers to people in need. We also usually have free bread and fresh fruit/vegetables, depending on availability. The soup kitchen is run solely by an amazing team of volunteers – we have no paid staff. Funds are raised through events and donations, to buy cooking ingredients, to purchase groceries for hampers and to pay the utility costs associated with the kitchen like gas, electricity and water. We receive no ongoing government funding. Proceeds from a volunteer-run cafe – Maa Sarada’s Kitchen – that serves south indian meals at very reasonable prices on Saturdays from 10am to 1pm also support the Vedanta Soup Kitchen free food program.

Bank details for Vedanta Soup Kitchen donations: Account Name: Vedanta Centre BSB: 064 087 Account number: 10094813

To make an online donation.Click here

For enquiries about soup kitchen donation email: info@vedantabrisbane.org

Free Food Collection

Free grocery hampers & frozen vegetarian meals are distributed to public on Fridays from 10am to 11am from Vedanta Soup Kitchen.

To ensure we can provide assistance, registration is required for your grocer hamper and free meals. Please send text message to 0482 015 595 with your name, number of people in your family and any specific requests (e.g Jane Smith 4 in family, nappies if available).

All texts must be sent by Thursday 12 noon. To speak to someone please call 07 3818 9986

Volunteer

We are seeking volunteers to help with cooking, cleaning, preparation of hampers, distribution of food and other kitchen associated tasks for our Friday Soup Kitchen. Duties may include preparing meals, chopping vegetables, cleaning up post work, assisting in distribution and making up of food hampers. We ask for a minimum commitment of 1 hour and that you join us at least once in a month. On Fridays we work from 9.30am to 1pm and all volunteers are welcome to stay for lunch together after the tasks are completed.

For more information about volunteering at Vedanta Soup Kitchen, volunteering at the saturday cafe ‘Maa Saradas Kitchen’ or volunteering generally at Vedanta Centre visit – become a volunteer.