You Can Help Pay for Meals for the Homeless by Eating at Your Favourite Restaurants This Month

Overview

Dine With Heart is a whole month devoted to raising funds for the Sacred Heart Mission's meals program — and you can do your bit by eating out at some of Melbourne's best restaurants.

The campaign brings Melbourne's food community together with a worthy goal: providing free, hot meals to those experiencing homelessness or social disadvantage, by way of food experiences and meals at participating restaurants, bars and cafés.

After kicking off with a gala fundraising dinner at the Palais Theatre this week, the rest of the month will involve pasta masterclasses, pizza and op shop pop-ups, and a whole bunch of participating food and drink venues that are getting involved too. Each venue will be offering something different — for example, St Ali will donate all proceeds from each plate of pancakes sold during May, The St Kilda Burger Bar will give $2 from every Dine With Heart burger, and Park Street will be donating $1 from every bloody mary too. Take a look at the full list here.

Of course, you can get even more proactive and bring Dine With Heart into your workplace — run an activity like a bake sale to raise awareness — or volunteer to host an event in your own home to raise some funds for Sacred Heart.

This year, the aim is to raise $150,000 to help people in need gain access to hot meals and support systems. Every meal the Sacred Heart provides costs $4, so it goes without saying that just throwing a dinner party for some mates could do a whole lot of good for a whole lots of people.

Here's a full list of participating restaurants:

Dine With Heart will run throughout May. Find more information about how to register here.