{"id":17438,"date":"2022-09-02T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:32:58","slug":"stats-you-wont-hear-at-the-footy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/stats-you-wont-hear-at-the-footy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats you won&#8217;t hear at the footy"},"content":{"rendered":" <section class=\"lg:py-6xl section theme-dark\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container grid items-center lg:grid-cols-2 gap-x-4xl\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column mx-auto\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <h1 class=\"leading-none mb-0 text-center\"> <font color=\"#f2f2e2\" class=\"\">Hear that? It\u2019s our cheer squad chanting your name  <\/font> <\/h1> <\/div> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/FBV_MCG-image.jpg\" class=\"lg:h-96 mb-0 object-cover w-full h-64\" \/> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <div class=\"section section-rounded-top bg-white\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <p class=\" \">Every two days with your help, Foodbank Victoria is feeding the equivalent of an MCG crowd \u2013 that\u2019s <b class=\"\">100,000 PEOPLE<\/b> who live in our cities, towns, and local neighbourhoods.  <\/p> <p class=\" \">Since June, our charity partners have seen a doubling of demand with some assisting over <b class=\"\">250 FAMILIES<\/b> a day in need of food relief.  <\/p> <p class=\" \"><b class=\"\">FIFTY PERCENT<\/b> of the people seeking food from us now have never had to come to a charity for support before. Many tell us they actually used to donate to Foodbank.  <\/p> <p class=\" \"><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\">Yes, the cost of living crisis is hitting hard but the support you give means the crowds of people stepping up to seek our help <\/span><b class=\"\" style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\">EVERY TWO DAYS<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\"> will NEVER miss out.<\/span> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear that? It\u2019s our cheer squad chanting your name Every two days with your help, Foodbank Victoria is feeding the equivalent of an MCG crowd \u2013 that\u2019s 100,000 PEOPLE who live in our cities, towns, and local neighbourhoods. Since June, our charity partners have seen a doubling of demand with some assisting over 250 FAMILIES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,244],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-17438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-vic","tag-foodbank-victoria"],"acf":[],"formatted_date":"September 2, 2022","raw_html":" <section class=\"lg:py-6xl section theme-dark\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container grid items-center lg:grid-cols-2 gap-x-4xl\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column mx-auto\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <h1 class=\"leading-none mb-0 text-center\"> <font color=\"#f2f2e2\" class=\"\">Hear that? It\u2019s our cheer squad chanting your name  <\/font> <\/h1> <\/div> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/FBV_MCG-image.jpg\" class=\"lg:h-96 mb-0 object-cover w-full h-64\" \/> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <div class=\"section section-rounded-top bg-white\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <p class=\" \">Every two days with your help, Foodbank Victoria is feeding the equivalent of an MCG crowd \u2013 that\u2019s <b class=\"\">100,000 PEOPLE<\/b> who live in our cities, towns, and local neighbourhoods.  <\/p> <p class=\" \">Since June, our charity partners have seen a doubling of demand with some assisting over <b class=\"\">250 FAMILIES<\/b> a day in need of food relief.  <\/p> <p class=\" \"><b class=\"\">FIFTY PERCENT<\/b> of the people seeking food from us now have never had to come to a charity for support before. Many tell us they actually used to donate to Foodbank.  <\/p> <p class=\" \"><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\">Yes, the cost of living crisis is hitting hard but the support you give means the crowds of people stepping up to seek our help <\/span><b class=\"\" style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\">EVERY TWO DAYS<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\"> will NEVER miss out.<\/span> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <p class=\" \"> <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>","ACF":{"custom_facebook_pixel":"","disable_header":false,"disable_footer":false,"highlight_post":false},"featured_image_url":"","author_name":"Sarah Anderson","spinnr_header":"default_spinnr_header","spinnr_mobile_menu":"default_spinnr_mobile_menu","spinnr_footer":"default_spinnr_footer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21018,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions\/21018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}