Partnerships

Prahran Market has partnered with a number of organisations that share similar philosophies with the Market.

Miele Australia

Miele logo Miele Australia is the premier supplier of quality lifestyle appliances and Prahran Market are delighted to have a longstanding relationship with the team from Miele Australia.

The Miele Interactive Kitchen at Prahran Market enables our chefs to demonstrate how to prepare delicious meals using fresh Market produce in the main fruit and vegetable hall.

The mobile Miele kitchens are also used by the Markets traders within their stalls to demonstrate how to select, store and prepare your purchases so you are guaranteed to cook up a storm at home. When it comes to using superior appliances, our chefs and traders see that other than Miele, anything else is a compromise.

SecondBite

SecondBite is a young dynamic organisation committed to making a positive difference by sourcing good quality, fresh, nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste and delivering it to agencies who cater for the homeless and disadvantaged.

Each year Prahran Market Traders donate 37,000 kg's of fresh food to SecondBite, which would have instead gone too landfill. SecondBite collects the food and redistributes it to 70 agencies (including local agengies, Prahran Mission, The Prahran Adventure Playground and Sacred Heart Mission) and thousands of people who are homeless or living in disadvantaged circumstances.

The Prahran Market Traders have been instrumental in this story. Prahran Market was the first Melbourne Market to donate fresh food to SecondBite. Since the first small collection took place in May 2006 relationships between SecondBite and the Prahran Market have gone from strength to strength and now anywhere between 600kg's and 1000kg's of surplus fresh food is collected every week.

The food is collected every Thursday and Saturday by local volunteers from Rotary Club of Melbourne and ANZ who help sort the produce and pack SecondBite's refrigerated van.

Last year over 312,000 Victorian families ran out of food and in stark contrast 3.28 million tonnes of fresh food ended up as landfill.

SecondBite, The Prahran Market and our incredible volunteers are proud to be working together to be part of the solution.

SecondBite is 100% self-funded relying on the generosity of others so a big thank you to everyone who has been a part of this wonderful story and may these valuable partnerships continue long into the future. www.secondbite.org

Prahran Market Community Sausage Sizzle Program

For more than 4 years Prahran Market has partnered with many local community groups, charities, schools and community service providers including Rotary, Malvern SES, and sporting clubs. Our community sausage sizzle program enables such groups to actively fundraise and profile build within the market environment. Over the past four years, just under $100,000 has been raised.

Please contact Helen on 8290 8220 if you would like further information about this fantastic program.

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

MFW Logo Housed within Prahran Market, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival presents major world class epicurean events and symposiums, calling on global culinary skill. Prahran Market is proud to partner with the team at the Festival to present a number of annual events at Prahran Market.

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival website

Melbourne Market Authority

Melbourne Markets logo Prahran Market is proud to be in partnership with Melbourne Market Authority. Prahran Market and Melbourne Markets see the importance of fresh food education no matter what age.

Check out the Market fresh site to get up to date information about what's in season and at its best.

Market Fresh website

Melbourne Market website

Fifteen Foundation


Fifteen was a concept set up by Jamie Oliver in London in 2002 when he realized he could use his skills and energy to offer young people with tough backgrounds an opportunity to train and be employed in a supportive environment. Jamie developed the restaurant Fifteen in London, putting young people at its heart. Since 2002 two further restaurants opened in Amsterdam and South West England. Melbourne is the fourth in the growing Fifteen 'family' and Tobie Puttock is their Executive Head Chef.