Anne fills quiches at night, after a day shift building the FareShare website The title Volunteer of the Month hardly does justice to Anne who has rebuilt our website as well as acting as an evening kitchen volunteer. Anne offered her expertise in digital marketing to FareShare after joining us Read more…
Chef Polly and DJ Lauren Mac get ready to cook – and entertain – students. DJ and FareShare volunteer Lauren first heard about us while doing a professional gig at the Night Noodle Markets where our volunteers were selling fortune cookies. Lauren was excited to learn about FareShare’s mission and Read more…
Lisa and Craig provide a warm welcome with FareShare meals Ballarat winters are notoriously harsh. It’s hard to imagine how anyone sleeping rough could even survive. Centacare’s Peplow House provides temporary relief with crisis accommodation for single men experiencing homelessness. Residents are provided intensive support to address a broad range Read more…
Pig farmer Tim Kingma with diced pork perfect for FareShare casseroles Meat is often the first sacrifice for families struggling to put food on the table making it a critical ingredient for the FareShare kitchen. FareShare cooks 5,000 meals every day from rescued food for people doing it tough. Sourcing sufficient Read more…
FareShare’s Kellie Watson is joined on site by food partner Foodbank QLD’s CEO Michael Rose. There have been some BIG developments in sunny Queensland. Our new production kitchen is under construction and electricians, plumbers and concreters are on site. All of our specialist, high-volume cooking equipment has landed in Australia Read more…
Will you follow in the footsteps of these happy FareShare walkers? FareShare is an official charity partner of the A2 Upstream Challenge on Saturday 10 November. Walk or run along the Yarra River from Gosch’s Paddock in Melbourne (50km) or Yarra Flats (20km) to Donvale. Registration is now open and we Read more…
Jose Cambon with chef Crickette adding mushroom stems – & nutrition – to a casserole We have a wonderful new ingredient which is cropping up in almost every FareShare meal – mushrooms! The welcome boon is due to an exciting collaboration with Costa, which boasts the largest mushroom farm in Read more…
Madut can’t resist Emily’s appealing fruit platter The day FareShare chef Emily finally met the children who enjoy her specially-prepared lunches was one of her most memorable. Every Monday, Emily has been up before 6 to create healthy platters for 24 four-year-olds at TRY South Yarra Pre School on the Read more…
A quick selfie on the track to Bendigo Covering 210 km on foot is no walk in the park. But Daniel Sollorz rose to the challenge for FareShare after completing a shift as a corporate volunteer in our kitchen. Moved by the experience of cooking meals for people in need, he Read more…
Phil (right) with fellow volunteers Isabel and Lorraine about to add “fly poo” fertiliser to our next sweet potato crop Phil Dobson began volunteering at our kitchen garden on the Baguley Farm in December 2016. Over the past 12 months Phil has notched up over 290 hours as a volunteer supervisor Read more…