Setting up 'The Soup Angel' as a Not-For-Profit Charity

The Soup Angel was created during the first COVID lockdown in Melbourne in March 2020 to provide home cooked healthy nutritious soups to the elderly and others in need in the streets surrounding Nicole Lewis-Jacob’s home when vulnerable people could not go to the supermarket.

During the 2nd Melbourne lockdown it was advertised on a few Kindness social media pages in Nicole's community to anyone wanting soup including health care workers, frontline nurses, the elderly, sick, families in need, homeless shelters, mental health organisations, those affected by the bushfires, families doing it tough and various charities and support services.

The overwhelming community support has blown Nicole away - from the offer of vegetables to cook with, to people donating containers, volunteering as drivers and printing labels for the soups. Nicole made an incredible amount of soup during the lockdown periods - more than 130 tubs of soup every 2 weeks!

The soup Angel has now grown to the wider Melbourne Community as well as to regional Victoria.

Now the Soup Angel is ready to go to the next level.

Nicole is wanting to set the project up as a formal not-for-profit charity and is seeking assistance with the legal fees that are required to make this happen.

Nicole knows it feels good to give back and that it doesn't cost anything to be kind.

Her dream once the charity is formed is to purchase a soup van for the community to continue to help those in need.