8.30am: Efforts to Fill the Bus for the Tauranga Community Foodbank are underway.
It is a hot, sunny day and we have a lot of businesses and organisations to get around.
Today the Bay of Plenty Times and The Hits radio station will travel around Tauranga in a Bayhopper bus collecting food and grocery donations from businesses, organisations and members of the public.
Keep an eye out for a big yellow Bayhopper bus making its around the city and feel free to toot in support.
8.45am: The first stop was at Sport Bay of Plenty.
Weaser said the office got behind the appeal and collected "a real mix of things". There was even some expensive biltong donated.
9.08am: The second stop of the day is at the Bay of Plenty Regional council office on First Ave.
The regional council supplied the Bayhopper bus being used for Fill the Bus today.
And what a load of donations they have collected too!
Transport marketing advisor Simon Neate said the council, the transport team and greater group was keen to "support such a promising charity, just to help those less fortunate during this time of year and also maybe we can promote public transport at the same time and help people to contribute to reducing the congestion in our city".
Neate said the other regional council offices also got behind and contributed to the appeal.
09:34am: The back of the bus is quickly filling up and we're only four stops in.
A big thanks to both Ingham Mora and ASB Bank on Cameron Rd for their generous collections for Foodbank.
10:13am: Meanwhile, we have two other vehicles also racing around the city collecting donations today. The Hits car and the foodbank van are filling up fast.
10:28pm: Classic Group have just pushed a trolley full of food out to the bus. A huge donation for the foodbank!
10:52am: The Christmas elves working hard in the foodbank van say so far they have had five stops out of 12 and the van "is already stacked to the windows and there is plenty of food already".
11:11am: Everyone at Western Bay of Plenty Resource Teacher Learning and Behaviour in Greerton has come outside in the sun to say hi. They have made a brilliant contribution to Fill the Bus.
12:04pm: Friends on Fraser Educare had their own bus full of foodbank donations.
12:07pm: More generous kids, this time at Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre. They donated bags of food for the foodbank.
12:37pm: Thanks Maungatapu Kindergarten!
12:51pm: Sania Doidge (pictured centre) from Body in Motion Physio and Rehab on Grenada St in Mount Maunganui handed over the company's foodbank donation collection.
2:45pm: Our Fill the Bus driver Tony Andrews quickly popped home so he could also contribute to the foodbank.
3:09pm: Papamoa Library staff and members have donated a book trolley filled with donations.
3:48pm: We are now in Bethlehem and nearing the end of Fill the Bus but the donations are still coming in. From left, Fiona Bumby and Elaine Comyn from Kaimai Law with their boxes of goodies for foodbank.
3.52pm: And Tracey Lougheed (pictured) from Body in Motion Bethlehem with their donations. All of the Body in Motion clinics we have visited today have been amazing! Thank you all.
4:18pm And the last stop of the day is at Remix RT Fitness Studios in Bethlehem. Bella Tata poses alongside the foodbank donation collection.
And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who contributed today, there were thousands of food and grocery items donated for the foodbank.