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More Than a Cookbook: How Brunch Is Helping Change Lives

Brunch has always been about more than just great food. It's about slowing down, gathering around the table, sharing stories, and celebrating the simple joy ...

Growing Hope: An Update on our Manila Farm

We wanted to share an exciting update from our family farm just outside of Manila, a project that continues to grow thanks to your incredible support ...

From a Rubbish Dump to a Thriving Farm in Cambodia

The Cambodia Farm Project is a powerful example of how dignity, opportunity, and sustainable food can change lives. It exists to support vulnerable families, many ...

Thank You

As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude for your support of OnePlate. 2024 has ...

The Joy of Giving

With Christmas just around the corner, Brunch in London is the perfect gift to share the warmth and joy of the season. Packed with simple, ...

Feast Like London Royalty This Christmas

Have you ever dreamed of dining at one of these luxurious hotels, but haven’t had the chance—perhaps you live on the other side of the ...

Discover What’s Brewing in the OnePlate Kitchen!

With Christmas just around the corner, Brunch in London is the perfect gift to share the warmth and joy of the season. Packed with simple, ...

It’s publication day for our cookbook Brunch in London!

Back when OnePlate was merely a dream of our co-founder Thérèse Nichols, we could never have imagined that we would be publishing cookbooks and launching ...

Cover Reveal

Unveiling the cover of OnePlate's much anticipated cookbook... Brunch in London! Created and crafted by OnePlate this cookbook not only celebrates the vibrant brunch culture ...

Celebrity Chefs Unite With OnePlate

Excitement is brewing over here at OnePlate. We are thrilled to announce some very exciting partnerships for our cookbook “Brunch in London”!

Exciting Announcement

OnePlate is heading to London! Get ready to embark on a British food journey as OnePlate proudly announces our second cookbook endeavour, "Brunch in London"!

A fruitful harvest & a valuable partnership

We are so excited to announce our Agroforestry project in Manila. We achieved this project by joining forces with the wonderful Warran Glen Cafe to ...

Agroforestry project funded by a local Melbourne cafe

Our newest project is in conjunction with the fish farm in Manila. Our hardworking and committed team has successfully planted 1,500 tropical fruit-bearing trees. These ...

Fish Farm, Manila

It all started when our team on the ground in Manila saw a glimpse of potential for a fish farm. The heart behind this project ...

Mushrooms & Gardens

Today we want to thank each one of you so much for what you have given to OnePlate through your donations and purchasing our cookbook ...

A OnePlate x Plain Sailing Collaboration

It has been four months since we launched our cookbook for impact and to celebrate we have teamed up with one of our starring cafes, ...

SOLD OUT… Brunch in Melbourne!

It’s official, the first run of our new cookbook, "Brunch in Melbourne" has SOLD OUT. Can you believe it?

Launching … Brunch in Melbourne

Brunch. A carefree meal that symbolises leisurely mornings, friendship and often the winding down of the night before. Melbournians are renowned for it. Some even ...

Making a Splash in 2020

Last year, we talked about our ambitions to build a grassroots movement that would enable real change. In our words, we wanted “to throw a ...

Crowdfunding our Cookbook

A world-first collation of 100 brunch recipes from 100 of Melbourne's most iconic cafés. This is the cookbook for social impact.

We’ve got some Spring in our Step

With the chilly months of winter now behind us and the sun finally shining again, we're gearing up for a massive spring as we launch ...

To show them Love

Why do we do what we do? To show these children that they are loved. I have recently come back from a beautiful and inspirational ...

Investing in Hope – Delivering Impact

Hope is defined as “the grounds for believing that something good may happen”. It’s a simple concept, perhaps one we take for granted. For those ...

Poverty is no paltry matter in Kenya

Last week we told you about our exciting bakery initiative, a project created to provide support for the Children's Home in Kenya, an organisation that ...

Fresh Bread On The Rise In Kenya

Like a Baker training initiative in Kenya, for example, which was originally set up as a self-sustaining fundraising model for the Children's Home in Kenya.

Underground Foodies Unite

Alleviating world hunger has been the mission of many charitable organisations for decades. It's certainly not a new issue. It does, however, require new thinking. ...

Sustainability – The Path to Prosperity

Alleviating world hunger has been the mission of many charitable organisations for decades. It's certainly not a new issue. It does, however, require new thinking. ...

One Step

“A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH ONE STEP” Last week OnePlate co-founders Thérèse and Katarina travelled across Cambodia and Thailand with Agricultural Scientist ...

Foodies for Impact

Australia is known as a nation of foodies. It's in our blood. It's a culture that brings communities together and happiness to our lives. Now ...

Meet OnePlate’s Food Scientist

OnePlate is thrilled to partner with Dr Donald Van Cooten who brings over 35 years of agricultural science experience and expertise to the table. Move ...

Turn one plate into a supply for Life

Ending hunger. For life. Each year over 9 million people die of hunger-related causes. There are a lot of good solutions waiting to be implemented, they ...

What is Sustainable Farming and why it is important for our wellbeing

Sustainable farming means producing food, fibre, plant or animal products without harming natural resources and land and considering social responsibilities such as working and living ...

The Kenyan Orchard

Kenya is an impoverished nation, with over 16 million of its 40 million inhabitants living below the poverty line. The statistics are hard to digest: ...

Tacloban, Philippines

OnePlate’s second program, the ‘Tacloban Project’ sponsored 120 poor families to start their own vegetable gardens and learn the latest in agricultural farming. In the ...

Manila’s Family Farm

The ‘Family Farm’ vision is OnePlate’s biggest project to date. The Family Farm is a 10-acre fully sustainable innovative farm which is currently being built ...

Shoots of Hope in Payatas

It is not for nothing that Payatas is known as the ‘national shame’ of the Philippines. Nicknamed the ‘Second Smokey Mountain’, Payatas is home to ...

Real Change through Lifelong Solutions

The Impact of Education and Empowerment In the upland, hilly area of Tacloban city, Philippines, is a farm that has been selected for OnePlate’s second ...

From the Streets to the Classroom

OnePlate has partnered with a foundation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to fund a project that allows some of the world’s poorest ...

Dish & Spoon Café: Our Newest Partner

We would like to welcome our newest hero partner for impact – Dish & Spoon Café in Camberwell, Melbourne. You are all invited to this ...

Impact for Life

Welcome to 2019. They say a new year brings new beginnings. For the thousands of underprivileged children who received a new lease on life via ...

Our Garden in the SKY: OnePlate’s Manila Rooftop Garden

OnePlate’s first completed project is a roof-top garden in the heart of metropolitan Manila in the Philippines. It is on top of a four-storey building ...

Project 281 – Leading by Example

As Australians, we’re incredibly fortunate to have an amazing food culture. From cafes and pubs to fine dining and exotic coffee, our foodie lifestyle is ...

Party Like Parisians for a Cause!

Last Saturday, over ninety people gathered in the sumptuous Flowers Vasette on Brunswick Street to celebrate OnePlate’s third event since launching. Paris was in the ...

How to Grow a Sustainable Vegetable Garden on Your Balcony

There are plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits available in the supermarkets and at your favourite farmer’s market.

How to Start Your Organic Mini Vegetable Farm

So you want to eat organic meals? But organic food is expensive to buy. There is a solution to that! Grow organic food and enjoy delicious meals ...

Importance of Nutritious Food and Eating

A well-balanced meal full of nutrients gives us the fibre, proteins, carbohydrates, essential fats, minerals and vitamins necessary to function, live and develop optimally. We ...

How Restaurants and Cafes Can Grow Their Own Food

As more people eat out these days, restaurants and cafes are thriving businesses. These businesses are in the position to drive change in the way ...

OnePlate goes to Africa

Imagine for a moment the feeling you get waving your child off to school in the morning. A combination of excitement, pride and reassurance that ...

Make a Difference

Nourishment can be defined as “the food required to facilitate life, growth, and health” and, as Australians, it’s something the majority of us take for ...

Spread the Feast

We hope that you have had a beautiful summer, and perhaps even a bit of a break! 2018 has already had some major wins for ...

One more plate this Christmas

Sitting around the table, a Christmas feast freshly laid out, laughing as the Christmas crackers go off and reflecting on the year that has past.

OnePlate MasterChef Feast

On Saturday 16 September 2017, OnePlate joined forces with nine MasterChef contestants to create the ‘OnePlate Feast’ – a fundraising dinner held in the stunning ...

OnePlate is officially Launched

OnePlate was officially launched on Saturday 13 May 2017 with over 300 people gathered together in a transformed warehouse in Melbourne’s CBD. The OnePlate tribe ...

Our first rooftop farm is complete

We are so excited that our first urban rooftop farm is now feeding street children in Manila. We couldn′t have done it without you – thank you for being part of the ...

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