NSW Meals on Wheels - Innovation Awards

Innovation Awards

Every year, we recognise outstanding local innovations at Meals on Wheels services. We pride ourselves on delivering 'more than just a meal' and these awards capture local initiatives that nurture the local community.

Explore some of our most recent award recipients and programmes developed locally to suit their local community.

2024 Winner - Nepean Food Service

Winner of a 2024 Innovation Award for their 'Share a Cuppa program'

2024 Winner - Blacktown Meals on Wheels Services Inc

Winner of a 2024 Innovation Award for their 'Introducing Diversity' program

2024 Winner - Bathurst Meals on Wheels

Winner of a 2024 Innovation Award for their 'Volunteer Loyalty Program'

2024 Winner - Albury Meals on Wheels

Winner of a 2024 Innovation Award for their 'Inclusive Volunteering Program'

2023 Winner - Albury Meals on Wheels

Winner in the category of Sustainable Practices is Albury Meals on Wheels, for their ‘Bags for the Better’ initiative.

2023 Winner - Forbes Meals on Wheels

Congratulations to Forbes and District Meals on Wheels, for their ‘Dine Out Cards’ initiative.

2023 Winner - The Rock & District Meals on Wheels

Winner in this category is The Rock and District Meals on Wheels for their ‘Home Cooked Meals’ initiative.

2023 Winner - Cootamundra Meals on Wheels

Congratulations to Cootamundra Meals on Wheels, winner for - Recruiting and retaining skilled management committee members.

2022 Winner - Blacktown Meals on Wheels

Blacktown Meals on Wheels have won an innovation award for their project “Emergency Food Relief”.

2022 Winner - Warrumbungle Community Care

Warrumbungle Community Care have won an innovation award for their project "Innovation for the Future Expansion of Meals on Wheels".

2021 Winner - Bega Valley Meals on Wheels

Bega Valley Meals on Wheels have won an innovation award for their project “Mobile Meals on Wheels”.

2021 Winner - COA Sydney Incorporated

COA Sydney Incorporated have won an innovation award for 'COA Fresh'

2020 Winner - Camden Meals on Wheels

Congratulations to Camden Meals on Wheels, who won the Innovation Award for ‘Social Connections’, with their mobile library service, 'The Book Bus'.

2020 Winner - Warrumbungle Community Care

Warrumbungle Community Care won for their ‘Creative use of COVID-19 emergency funding’, by involving their whole community in ensuring a tasty meal for vulnerable people during lockdown.

2020 Shortlisted Projects

Here is a list of honourable mentions from services around the state for their innovative projects.

2019 Winner - Griffith Meals on Wheels

Griffith Meals on Wheels won for their 'Hampers of Hope ' project, which rescues unsaleable food, then redistributes this food repacked into food hampers to disadvantaged members of the community.

2019 Winner - Sutherland Food Services

Sutherland Food Services, who are the Meals on Wheels provider in the Sutherland Shire of NSW, were awarded a Meals on Wheels NSW Wellness and Reablement Award for their 'Your Kitchen' Program.

2018 Winner - Brunswick Valley Meals on Wheels

The Brunswick Valley Meals on Wheels Service won an Innovation Award for their project, ‘Wollum
Aboriginal Meals Service'.

2018 Winner - Bucketts Way Neighbourhood Group

An Innovation award went to Bucketts Way Neighbourhood Group for their ‘Britten Street Project’.

2018 Winner - Open Arms Care

Open Arms Care also won an Innovative Award for their ‘Organisation Performance Wheel.’

2018 Winner - Nepean Food Services

Nepean Food Services have won an award for their project “In Pursuit of Wellness and Reablement”.

Forbes & District Meals on Wheels

In the category of ‘Sustainable Practices’