CSB - Tracey Putt: Fonterra

Senior Relationship Manager in the Co-op’s Community team Tracey Putt joins Craig Cumming to chat 15 years since KickStart began.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now to talk to the team at Fontira and
today we're joined by Tracy part Senior Relationship manager and
the co OPS community team. Welcome Tracy Citer Craze.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thanks for having me today.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Absolutely great to have you on Tracy. So what's been
happening in the Fontira community space.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Wow, We've had a pretty busy August celebrating a huge
milestone with the fifteen year anniversary of our Kickstut Breakfast program.
So Kicksut Breakfast is a community partnership program between Fonterra
Sanitarium and the Ministry of Social Development that began back
in two thousand and nine. The program provides Anchor Milk

(00:36):
and Sanitarium weekbix to more than forty two thousand Tamidiki
and rangatahi and we're in over fourteen hundred schools across
our tourra, with around two thirds of those being primary
school aged. A really great thing about the program is
we have over four thousand incredible volunteers from the wider

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community who come together and generously give the time and
energy to create a special breakfast club space for our skills.
And the program has served seventy million breakfast so far
and counting.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Wow, fifteen years since the Kickstart began on an achievement
that sounds like a great example of working in a
good partnership.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Absolutely, we're really proud to be working closely with our
partners at Sanitarium and MSD to positively impact communities throughout
New Zealand. Checksup Breakfast obviously wouldn't be possible without the
generosity of Fonterra farmers, whose good quality, daring nutrition is
helping give so many kew kids and nutritious start to
their day.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
And I'd imagine you're seeing some great results in the program.
It's an excellent way to start the day, oh, it
sure is.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
The results go far beyond the breakfast club to our
breakfast table as well, so benefits like increased school attendance,
improved behaviors and greater educational outcomes for our kamdiki and Zangatahi.
The incredible thing about the program, Craig, is that a
y it's a safe space for where everyone is welcome,
so students are able to come together with their peers,

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build social skills, and those impacts ripple out to benefit
FANO and the wider community too. It's all fostering a
really positive environment for future generations to grow.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Absolutely, so Tracy, who can join the program, Well.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Kicks Up Breakfast is unique and that we're the only
food program in our where any public school can join
regardless of equity index. So we've got schools from the
Cake to the Bluff and schools right out to Chatham Islands,
Matakana and Great Barrier Coasts. The programs designed to be
flexible to fit the needs of our individual schools, so

(02:43):
they can choose to run the program from once a
week to every school day. So with Kickstup Breakfast, we
supply the anchor, milk and sanitarium weeks and then the
schools provide the space to run the breakfast club along
with the bowls and cutlery and other bits and bobs.
So many of our schools have created a fantastic and
inviting breakfast club space for their students to come together

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to kick start their school day, which is pretty awesome.