Amorelle Dempster, Slow Food International Board

A founding member of Slow Food Hunter Valley, a global, grassroots organisation linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to local communities and the environment. Amorelle is also is a FounderSlow Food International Board and is a member of the national Ark of Taste, Communications and Indigenous Food working groups.  

City folk, Amorelle and her family, moved to the town of Gresford in the Hunter Valley, to give the children a rural upbringing and to become organic farmers on 180 acres. Amorelle changed careers from being a marketing consultant to training as a chef, and a lifelong passion for cooking became a reality. Today Amorelle and her husband run a café in East Maitland, where they are able to put the Slow Food philosophy of good, clean and fair into practice daily. 

Rev. Bill Crews, CEO and Founder of Exodus Foundation

Rev. Bill Crews is the founder and chairman of the Exodus Foundation, a charity that assists homeless and abandoned youth and feeds 400 people each day, provides health both dental and medical and welfare services for the homeless and needy, an outreach program for homeless youth and a literacy tutorial program with centres located in Ashfield, Redfern, Coen, Queensland and Darwin, Northern Territory which offer free remedial reading tuition to disadvantaged primary school children. Having studied electrical engineering and building the first machine to grow ultra-pure single crystal silicon in Australia, Rev. Bill Crews followed his heart by taking on a role at Sydney's renowned Wayside Chapel, where he helped to create the country's first 24-hour Crisis Centre. In 1973 he was made a member of the New South Wales Drug and Alcohol Authority and was closely involved in establishing drug rehabilitation, education and prevention programs throughout NSW.  

He has been the recipient of countless awards, including an Order of Australia, and actively supports multi-faith dialogue and understanding between cultures. He is also a Patron of Australians For Just Refugee Programs and is Chairman of Fair Go Australia, an anti-racism project sponsored by the NSW Government. In 2011 Bill established The Bill Crews Charitable Trust, which encourages, supports, finances and develops ways of tackling poverty across three continents.