Puddle Jumpers Incorporated

💜 THE REMEMBERING CHELSEA IRELAND WESTERN FOOD HUB — THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE. 💜

I wish everyone could stand inside our Western Food Hub for just one shift and see what happens here.

Because right now, we are busier than we have ever been.

Every shift, more people are walking through our doors needing help. People who never imagined they would need a food hub. Families trying to stretch what little they have left. Older people struggling with the cost of living. People who are simply doing everything they can to get through another week.

And then there are our volunteers. 🥹💜

They just keep stepping up.

They unpack and sort mountains of food.
🥦 They check produce and make sure everything is good to go.
🥪 They make meals.
☕ They make cups of tea.
🛍️ They fill bags.
🍎 They restock tables again…and again…and again.
❤️ They welcome people with kindness, dignity and absolutely no judgement.

Sometimes it’s the food that brings someone through our doors — but it’s the smile, the conversation and the feeling that someone actually cares that can mean just as much.

Look at these photos. This isn’t staged. This is an ordinary day at our Western Hub.

People helping people.

And as the number of people needing us continues to climb, somehow our incredible volunteers keep finding a little more to give.

We genuinely could not do this without them.

But we need more hands. 🙏

Our Western Food Hub operates every weekday, day AND evening, as well as Sundays, and we are ALWAYS looking for more volunteers.

You don’t need special skills.
You don’t need to commit to every week.
You don’t need to know anyone.

You just need to turn up with a willingness to help.

Come for a shift. Come for a couple of hours. Come when you can.

There is a job for everyone and, right now, every extra pair of hands matters.

📍 Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub
266A Port Road, Hindmarsh

💜 Weekdays: 10am–1pm & 5pm–7pm
💜 Sundays: 12pm–2pm

To every single volunteer already standing beside us — THANK YOU.

The need is extraordinary.

But so are you. 💜

☕ Skip one coffee. Change a child’s life. 💙

For just $2, you could be helping a child experience something many of us take for granted.

🌈 A safe place to belong.
🥪 A meal when times are tough.
🏕️ Their very first camp.
🎒 School essentials.
❤️ A community that believes in them.

At the same time, you’ll go into the draw to win some incredible prizes, including a Toyota Kluger Hybrid, a Toyota Yaris Hybrid, and an unforgettable Northern Lights Cruise!

It’s one of the simplest ways to support local children while giving yourself the chance to win something amazing.

Every ticket purchased through our Puddle Jumpers fundraising page helps us continue supporting vulnerable children and families across South Australia.

🎟️ Just $2.
A tiny purchase.
A life-changing impact.

Buy your ticket today:
https://www.communitylottery.com.au/products/puddle-jumpers-inc?_pos=1&_sid=66e417d09&_ss=r

💙 Because Kids Matter.

💜 LOOK WHO POPPED IN TODAY! 💜

The wonderful Richard and Cathy from Albany Gardens stopped by Puddle Jumpers today with a very generous donation for our Food Hub! 🥫🍝🛒

We absolutely love these surprise visits — especially when people arrive with arms (and boxes!) full of goodies to help local families doing it tough. 😍

Every single item makes its way onto our shelves and ultimately into the hands of someone who needs a little extra support right now.

Richard and Cathy, thank you! 💜
And a huge thank you to the Albany Gardens community for thinking of Puddle Jumpers and helping us keep feeding South Australian families.

Legends! 🙌💜

🎨✨ OKAY… WHO NEEDS A FUN SATURDAY AFTERNOON?! ✨🎨

Our Resin Art Workshop is THIS SATURDAY and we still have spots to fill — so grab a friend and come get creative with us! 💜🩷💙

We’ve been shopping for supplies and may have got slightly carried away with all the gorgeous new resin colours… 😍😂 So now we need YOU to come and use them!

You don’t need to be artistic.
You don’t need any experience.
You just need to turn up ready to have some fun! 🙌

✨ Create your very own resin masterpiece
🎨 Choose from HEAPS of gorgeous colours
🥂 Enjoy nibbles & mimosas
👯 Bring a friend (or come along and meet some new ones!)
💜 And best of all — EVERY CENT raised goes directly to Puddle Jumpers Incorporated!

This workshop is part of the Leap of Faith team’s fundraising, so while you’re having a brilliant afternoon and taking home something you’ve created yourself, you’re also helping us support children and families doing it tough. 🥰

There are still spots available — and we would really love to FILL THIS WORKSHOP!

👇👇 BOOK YOUR SPOT NOW:
Resin Art Workshop – Book Here
https://sites.google.com/view/leap-of-faith-plunge/other-leap-of-faith-events/resin-workshop

Tag the friend you’d bring along! 👇🎨🥂

THIS SATURDAY. RESIN. MIMOSAS. FRIENDS. FUN. AND A GREAT CAUSE.
What more do you need? 💜✨

🏫💛 SCHOOLS — WE WANT YOU IN THE ROOM! 💛🏫

Schools have become such a massive part of our National Child Protection Week Breakfast, and honestly, watching their involvement grow year after year has been one of our favourite parts of this event.

Over the years, we’ve been incredibly lucky to have students and representatives join us from:

🎓 cabra_dominican_college
🎓 st_peters_college_adelaide
🎓 thomasmorecollege
🎓 fame_school
🎓 adelaide_high_school
🎓 mitcham_girls_high_school
🎓 St Mary's College
🎓 blackfriarspriorySchool
🎓 sports.college.nsscn
🎓 princealfredcollege (PAC)
🎓 immanuel_lutheran_college

…and more! ❤️

Some of these schools are already booked to join us again this year — and we would LOVE to see even more schools represented.

Because if we are going to have conversations about children and young people, young people need to be in the room.

Not just listening.

Participating.
Sharing their perspectives.
Challenging our thinking.
And showing us exactly what they are capable of.

And that makes this year’s theme particularly special:

🌟 WATCH THEM LEAD 🌟

Our breakfast brings together students, educators, community leaders, child protection professionals, decision-makers and people with lived experience for one incredibly powerful morning.

📅 Friday 4 September 2026
⏰ 7.30am – 9.30am
📍 Adelaide Convention Centre

🔥 And ONE THIRD of our tickets are already SOLD!

So, schools — don’t leave it too late!

Bring your student leaders.
Bring your SRC.
Bring your prefects, house captains and young changemakers.
Bring the students who have something to say and those who are still discovering their voice.

Come and be part of a room that doesn’t just talk about young people.

Come and WATCH THEM LEAD. ❤️

🎟️ BOOK YOUR SCHOOL OR TABLE NOW:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1494953

And please TAG a school below that you think needs to be in the room this year! 👇

🥬🍊 GOOD FOOD BELONGS IN BELLIES, NOT BINS! 💚

We LOVE this.

A massive thank you to the incredible team at cartmarketplace for choosing to make food rescue part of the way they do business — and for bringing another beautiful delivery of fresh South Australian produce to our Western Food Hub. 🙌

Fresh leafy greens, fruit and veggies might look like “just food”… but when you’re trying to stretch every dollar to feed your family, having access to beautiful fresh produce can make an enormous difference.

And this is exactly what community should look like.

🥕 Good food rescued instead of wasted
🥬 Local growers and businesses supporting local families
🍊 Fresh, healthy produce getting onto tables
💚 Businesses recognising they can be part of the solution

We’re incredibly grateful to Cart & Marketplace and Rainbow Fresh for helping us fill fridges, cupboards and — most importantly — tummies.

With the number of people coming through our Food Hubs continuing to grow, partnerships like this genuinely matter.

Thank you for seeing the value in what might otherwise go to waste and making sure it gets to people who can use it.

Good food belongs in bellies, not bins — we couldn’t agree more. 💚💦

💙 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING WITH THE QUAMBY CLUB! 💙

This morning our Founder & CEO, Melanie, had the absolute privilege of being invited along as guest speaker at the Quamby Club at Elizabeth Park to share the Puddle Jumpers story and talk about the children, young people and families we support every single week.

And apparently… there were tears! 🥹💙

Members shared how moved they were hearing about the work happening across Puddle Jumpers and said they simply couldn’t believe the scale of what our incredible volunteers and community make possible.

But the kindness didn’t stop there.

The Quamby Club had also collected bags and bags of beautiful donations for Puddle Jumpers AND held a morning tea to raise money to support our work. 🥰👏

This is community at its absolute best — people coming together, listening, caring and deciding they want to be part of making life a little easier for someone else.

To everyone at the Quamby Club, THANK YOU for welcoming Melanie so warmly, for your generosity, for the donations, for the funds raised and, most importantly, for genuinely caring about the families we support. 💙💛

What a beautiful bunch of humans. 🥰

🚿🧡 TEAM — WE’VE CRACKED $60,000!!! 🧡🚿

$60,209 raised.
That means we are now THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY to our $80,000 goal! 🤯🙌

What started as a slightly crazy idea — “Surely South Australia can come together and keep a shower truck on the road?” — has turned into more than $60,000 worth of people saying YES.

Yes to dignity.
Yes to hot showers.
Yes to clean clothes and towels.
Yes to showing people doing it tough that they matter. ❤️

We’ve now got less than $20,000 to go — $19,791 to be exact!

And after watching what this community has already achieved, I absolutely believe we can get there.

Every $5. Every $20. Every business that jumped on board. Every person who shared a post. Every fundraiser. Every ridiculous cold shower. 😂🥶🚿

It has ALL added up.

$60,209 down.
$19,791 to go.

COME ON SA… LET’S BRING THIS SHOWER TRUCK HOME! 🚚🚿🧡

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Oh my goodness — remember the incredible FedEx team who rolled up their sleeves and volunteered at our Western Food Hub? 💜

Well… THEY CAME BACK TODAY!! 🥹🙌

And this time they arrived with an absolutely beautiful spread of food for our community — sandwiches, wraps, fresh fruit and veggies, cupcakes, drinks and more! 🥪🧁🥕🥒🧃

This is what we LOVE. People come along, see what happens at the Hub, meet the people we support… and then think, “What else can we do?”

FedEx team, you are absolute LEGENDS. 💜

You gave us your time, your energy and plenty of laughs — and now you’ve come back and filled our fridges too.

With so many families doing it incredibly tough right now, every single bit of this will be appreciated and enjoyed.

THANK YOU FedEx!! We bloody love good humans doing good things. 💜💜💜