Help create food security for our tamariki
Through Garden to Table children grow fresh produce, cook real meals, and develop skills and confidence that they take home and carry for life.
We currently work with over 300 schools across Aotearoa, reaching over 33,000 children.
1 in 4 New Zealand children don't have enough to eat.
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of students missing meals in the developed world. Teenagers experiencing food poverty are achieving up to four years behind their food-secure peers academically.
The gap starts early and so does the solution.
“Garden to Table is more than just cooking and gardening — it teaches us skills for the rest of our life. We are no longer picky eaters.”
$40 gives one child a full year of Garden to Table education — learning to grow, cook, and nourish themselves. Your donation helps us train more teachers, expand our resources and bring the programme to more schools.
“I like the way the children cook food they have never tasted before and then take this knowledge home with them. In our parent survey, a high number of parents requested it as a programme that must stay.”
Your donation goes even further before 31 March.
For every dollar you donate to Garden to Table before 31 March, you can claim 33.33 cents back as a tax credit.
A $100 donation effectively costs you just $67.
Give from kindness - and get your tax back.
Help us reach more schools. Give a child food skills for life.
Internet banking
Please let us know about your kind donation by emailing us at info@gardentotable.org.nz. We will then reply with a donation receipt. We are a registered charity and donations $5 and over are tax deductible.
Bank: ASB
Name of account: Garden to Table Trust
Account number: 12-3427-0069617-00
Bank statement details: Please add the word DONATION to your particulars, followed by your surname and initials or your business name (in the code and reference fields).
The impact of your support
Today, over 320 schools across Aotearoa New Zealand are involved in Garden to Table.
That’s over 34,000 tamariki who are learning skills that will help to them connect with nature and instill them with a sense of belonging– that will stay with them for life.
With your kindness this Christmas, more than 40, 000 tamariki can experience joy and nourishment at Garden to Table in 2026
Ngā mihi maioha - thank you!