• Wallace Drive

  • Noosaville

  • Queensland

  • 4566

  • Phone:07 54497659

  • email: tnmow@bigpond.com

About Meals on Wheels

In Tewantin, we commenced operations in May 1975 in a small kitchen off St James Church Hall, Noosaville, where in the first year they cooked and delivered 1000 meals, at a cost of $1 per meal. They only operated 3 times a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday, operating 2 runs, one north and one south! Later they moved to a small cottage in Ernest Street, Tewantin until council informed them they would have to moved, in 1992.

The move to our current premises in Wallace Park was in 1993. Money for this was raised in the community by the sale of "bricks" to the community, the Noosa Council offered the land. The Lions Club, Rotary Clubs and the Tewantin-Noosa and Noosa Heads Bowls Clubs all agreed to make the building of the new kitchen their project for the year.

SO many suppliers and trades people helped in this project, the bricks supplied from the brickworks in Bundaberg at no charge, all the paint was donated. The building was put up in three weekends all with volunteer labour, from the slab being laid, bricks laid and all painted! An honour board of all the fantastic organizations and companies is in the current kitchen. It was a huge achievement!

We operate 5 days a week, supplying meals for 7 days - we send out frozen meals for the weekends and public holidays.

We now do 8 runs which include Marcus Beach to Sunrise Road, to Cooroibah, Noosa Heads, Tewantin, Noosaville, Parklands , Tinbeerwah and Cooroy, in those runs we include the retirement villages of Riverlands, Laguna, Noosa Waters and Hibiscus. We also supply lunches to the Noosa Community Support Centre Monday to Friday.

The reasons behind the huge increase in meal numbers, are in a large part, due the past and present governments encouraging the "older" Australian to stay in their homes longer. Not always, the desire of the "older" Australian, but the restrictions on entry to Aged Care Facilities doesn't leave them much choice in the matter, never mind the availability of beds, in the local Aged Care Facilities