In the Community

Our Co-operative was created through a community of people working together to help each other – it’s our back bone, it’s who we are, it’s where we come from and it’s what we do.

We are a New Zealand Co-operative made up of everyday good people who work together to do amazing things with dairy, we are passionate about supporting our communities and its through our philosophy of Doing Good Together that we intend to care for people, the environment and our co-op for generations.

Putting good quality nutrition in the hands of those who need it most.

Protecting & regenerating the environment.

Keeping our communities strong.

Our Hero Programmes

KickStart Breakfast

KickStart breakfast has served more than 50 million breakfasts and runs in nearly 1,400 schools nationwide.

Hapori

It’s through Hapori - meaning community, kinship and coming together for a common cause that we intend to continue to create meaningful impact in our communities.

Sustainable catchments

We are connecting and empowering our farmers, our manufacturing sites and local communities to take action that will improve water quality and regenerate nature.

Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing

Fonterra has partnered with the Rural Support Trust to help rural communities start the conversation about mental health. We aim to support the regional rural support trusts across NZ to spotlight this very important topic.

Feeding NZ Communities

Partnering with Feed out & the New Zealand Food Network we have donated more than 14 million dairy serves across New Zealand since July 2020.

New Zealand Food Network

Fonterra is a founding donor to the NZFN & through their extensive Food Hubs located across New Zealand, together we are getting good quality nutrition to where its needed the most.

Feed Out

Fonterra has partnered with Feed out a national charity working with processers to supply meat & dairy to foodbanks throughout NZ.

At the heart of our communities

We support a wide range of initiatives & projects throughout regional New Zealand. These include school groups, educational groups, charitable trusts, sports clubs and local emergency services for a wide range of environmental, community and health and safety initiatives.

See what we're doing below:

Together, we do good things - we're helping them, help others.

Rubber to the road

The Merri River School puts a big emphasis on bike education and road safety – now the students have ten new mountain bikes to ride around on.

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Together, we’ve built something special

Each year our Stanhope site gives 50 trailer loads of material that gets upcycled into things for the community. The Shed has become a place of creativity, friendship, and support.

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Together, we’re helping protect communities

The 2018 St. Patrick’s Day fires were devastating to the farmers and communities in western Victoria. The Bostocks Creek CFA was fundraising for a new vehicle, it only seemed right we made a contribution.

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We're doing good together