Voyle & Co Realty starts can-guessing competition to help Kāpiti Community Foodbank

The Voyle & Co Realty team, from left, Mike Voyle, Peter Ware, Audra Voyle, Sara Hayward and Caitlin Voyle, with a shopping trolley of cans. Photo / David Haxton

All the groceries donated from a guess-the-amount-of-cans in a shopping trolley promotion will go to the Kāpiti Community Foodbank.

Voyle & Co Realty, on the corner of Maclean St and Seaview Rd, Paraparaumu Beach, is running the competition.

To enter, all people have to do is donate a can of food, and then guess the number of cans in a shopping trolley, anytime until the end of August.

The winner will receive a $200 Prezzy Card for guessing the correct number, or the closest to it.

There are four other shopping trolleys to fill.

Company staff had filled a shopping trolley to get the promotion under way.

Office manager Sara Hayward said, “The whole thing is about giving to the food bank”.

She said the promotion would enable a boost to the food bank shelves especially the first week of the September school holidays, when a need had been identified.

The company has a partnership with the food bank.

The shopping trolley promotion joins its Easter egg appeal and Christmas gift appeal.

“We really enjoy it,” company co-owner Mike Voyle said.

Mike and Audra Voyle. Photo / David Haxton

“It brings fresh energy into the office and gets the team excited.

“We also get to flex our marketing muscles and do something a bit different.”

For the Christmas promotion, the company gifts a gift for every gift given and wraps them too.

“Over 500 presents were given to the food bank.

“It was overwhelming and the food bank was blown away.”

Voyle said, “People might say ‘Why the food bank?’ but why not?

“Having a meal on the table is a basic human need.”

Voyle & Co Realty is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

It will also be open on Saturdays, for the food can promotion, from 8am to 12 noon while the Paraparaumu Beach Saturday Market is on.