Time away from the workplace in FareShare’s kitchens or kitchen garden is a fantastic way to make a real social impact, connect with your team and build positive relationships within your organisation.

FareShare's 2025 corporate volunteering experiences are now open. Secure your spot now!

Corporate volunteers have been powering FareShare for 18 years.

Our Melbourne corporate volunteering program continues to be incredibly popular…

Our half day kitchen experiences are mostly fully booked for the rest of 2024; some daytime and evening shifts are available. Please email info@fareshare.net.au to enquire about dates. 

Our kitchen garden experiences are fully booked in 2024. 

We have officially opened our calendar for 2025 bookings. Book your team in for a meaningful, impactful experience in Australia’s largest charity kitchen. 

Scroll down to read more about our corporate volunteering opportunities and to register your interest and preference/s and date/s. 

We look forward to welcoming you to FareShare.

Corporate volunteering in our expanded state-of-the-art kitchen at Abbotsford

2025 bookings now open!
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Corporate volunteering at our revamped Abbotsford kitchen

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Corporate volunteering in our Abbotsford kitchen garden

Help weed, mulch, fertilise, harvest, compost and propagate vegetables and herbs in our beautiful inner city garden.

2025 bookings now open!
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Corporate volunteering in our Abbotsford kitchen garden

Help weed, mulch, fertilise, harvest, compost and propagate vegetables and herbs in our beautiful inner city garden.

2025 bookings now open!
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Corporate volunteering in our food processing kitchen at Derrimut

Bookings available in February and March 2024 only.
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Corporate volunteering in our processing kitchen at Derrimut

Bookings open in February and March 2024 only.
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Team building with social impact

FareShare offers a unique, meaningful and popular corporate volunteering experience for organisations large and small.

We operate high-volume production kitchens for half-day shifts for colleagues to build relationships and have fun while processing food and cooking and packing thousands of meals for people in need.

Guided by our experienced supervisors, participants process and prepare freshly harvested and rescued vegetables, cook and pack single-serve meals, soups and sweet fruit-based treats. They will also learn about food waste, food rescue and food poverty in our city.

FareShare also offers corporate volunteering opportunities at our Abbotsford Kitchen Garden on Friday mornings where volunteers weed, mulch, fertilise, harvest, compost and propagate vegetables and herbs.

Feedback has been glowing and some corporate volunteers have gone on to become regular volunteers. Importantly, everyone leaves feeling more connected and knowing they have made a direct social impact.

More than 750 organisations have already volunteered at FareShare including

  • Accenture
  • Aesop
  • Cargill
  • Clayton Utz
  • Deloitte
  • Ford
  • Mazda
  • Nelson Alexander
  • Pitcher Partners
  • Plantfulness/AMES
  • REA Group
  • RACV
  • Salesforce
  • University of Melbourne
  • Vanguard
  • Woolworths

Feedback on the experience

Amazing and rewarding. Everyone at Carsales.com.au agreed it was so much fun and loved seeing the effect our volunteering had. Big thank you to the FareShare team for being so accommodating during the whole process as well as all the staff helping on both days. We will definitely be back to volunteer again for such an exceptional cause.
Roger MaiCarsales.com.au
Thanks for having us all at Fareshare, the new space is incredible. All the staff absolutely enjoyed the experience and really felt empowered. It’s wonderful to see how our contribution will help so many communities. We will definitely be back this time next year, so please hold a spot for us.
Eleanor HuntDig Agency
On behalf of our team at Officeworks, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Rosie and Alex (the chef on duty on Wednesday) for making us feel welcomed into your kitchen! We had a wonderful time, bonding as a team while doing something meaningful. We were so pleased to hear that our small contribution and efforts on the day resulted in over 600 meals being prepared for those who are in much need of them. FareShare is enabling and delivering a worthy cause and we were honoured to play a very small part. Thank you once again.
Chenade Rodrigues
Chenade RodriguesBusiness Program Manager, Officeworks
As well as learning about the huge support Fareshare provides to thousands of Victorians doing it tough, we found our time volunteering at FareShare one of the highlights of our year. We worked hard assembling hundreds of delicious meals, preparing 70kg of kohlrabi (I had ever heard of kohrabi before!), packaging hundreds of sausage rolls and cleaning and re-setting the kitchen, and whilst we did all of this we CONNECTED with each other and talked. What an immensely rewarding experience with the fabulous SEIVA team. Thank you FareShare for having us. We will be back!
Terri Green
Terri GreenSEIVA
Thankyou for the opportunity to help out at FareShare. We all found it a very rewarding experience and it certainly opened our eyes to the efforts made by the many volunteers in supporting those in need. Congratulations to FareShare and your dedicated team in all that you do in making a difference.
Tony Henry
Tony HenryANZ
Thanks so much - what a great afternoon and a real gift to be able to work with your Fareshare team. Congratulations for the amazing work you do, your commitment and the spirit with which you undertake this important work. The organisation and messaging was so impressive. Loved every minute of working with your team and also meeting new MACS people.
Deb Egan
Deb EganMelbourne Archdiosese Catholic Schools (MACS)
Thanks for your help with arranging this amazing opportunity and providing so much information about your organisation on the day. It was a wonderful experience for us all and we all appreciated the detail, patience and care taken to ensure we did the jobs to your high standard. We all left feeling content and warm hearted after seeing the fantastic quality and care that is taken to ensure those that get your meals not only get a full belly, but a meal which is prepared with care and high nutritional value.
Leigh Cook and the team from
Leigh Cook and the team fromMazda Australia
It was great to learn more about FareShare and the wonderful work they do. I loved how we were able to work together across our teams, doing things far removed from our usual day jobs. Spending time together like this not only helps bring our teams together, but also allows us to get to know each other on a personal level.
Adrian Fernando
Adrian FernandoIXOM
The Ford Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering team thanks FareShare for making our corporate volunteering event a successful and wonderful experience at their new Derrimut facility. We were impressed by how well the program was organised, from initial planning to onsite induction and supervision. We found FareShare’s sustainability mindset to be very much aligned with our values at Ford. FareShare’s main objective – to support the basic human right to access nutritious food, was reinforced by an ethos to reduce waste, use renewable energy and minimise their environmental footprint. We look forward to future corporate volunteering events at FareShare.
Sophia ChongFord of Australia
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Other ways to support FareShare

In addition to volunteering in our kitchen, there are other ways you can support us through running a food drive or fundraising for us.

If you would like to learn more about running a food drive or fundraising at your workplace, please get in touch by emailing info@fareshare.net.au. Our needs constantly change, so please contact us before you get started. 

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