We are proud partners on the Monash University led study ‘Benchmarking for Heathy Stores’ which is currently underway across many remote community stores, including 10 stores from the ALPA group. So, what is the study about? Read more
26 Students from the communities of Ramingining, Milingimbi, Gapuwiyak & Galiwin’ku get the chance to complete a week of work experience in Darwin. Read more
Khia De Silva has been ALPAs Nutrition Manager for more than four years. Her passion and dedication to the role was recognised at the ALPA Managers Conference held in June where she received the ‘Living Our Values’ award. Read more
As ALPA has grown over the years to include Community Services, and our Nutrition and Executive team saw the need for a set of Guidelines to be used across the organisation to help improve the health of all employees. The guidelines produced are practical and educational providing ‘Grab and Go shopping lists, ‘how to build a healthy meal’ and ‘healthy and non-food gift ideas.’ Read more
ALPA retail members headed to the Gold Coast for the Metcash trade show recently to discuss ways to provide affordable and healthy food for our remote communities. Read more
“It was a privilege to sit and share a story with the CDP participants in Minjilang about their wisdom, connection to country and culture, and ‘skills in living’ which they put into action to grow up strong families able to ‘stand strong and weather the storms of life’”. Read more
There has been a lot of excitement in Ramingining recently as the store had a new fruit and veg fridge installed that has dramatically increased the space dedicated to fruit and veg! Read more
In early May, Jonathan Yunupingu completed fruit and veg training in the Gapuwiyak store and ever since we have seen an increase in fruit and veg sales. Read more
To support our customers to drink less sugar, the ALPA Board agreed to pilot a ‘pack size reduction’ strategy on the highest selling sugary drinks. This strategy will complement the suite of sugar reduction policies already in place across our stores. Read more