Here’s a cool food rescue from another rescue organisation with a very different mission – saving marine life. FareShare has just collected a donation of ship’s dry stores from the Steve Irwin, Sea Shepherd’s flagship 59 metre vessel, while docked in Williamstown. The donated food including flour, quinoa, superfood bars, Read more…
It’s going to be a long night in the FareShare warehouse sorting six vans of rescued food from the Fine Food Australia expo. Well done to Pat for leading the massive mission & our crew of volunteers for picking up everything from beautiful beef to fabulous flour. FareShare undertook our Read more…
https://youtu.be/mejwA4E9Bs8 On the eve of National Volunteer Week, FareShare has paid tribute to the thousands of people who volunteer each year with a video (see above). FareShare rescues surplus food and cooks 5000 free, nutritious meals a day for charities with the support of 750 regular volunteers. Another 3000 secondary Read more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oDTrqkBGOk It takes a lot of ingredients to cook one million meals in a year and our new video shows how we did it. 2015 was a year of big numbers for FareShare. We rescued 544,543 kg of food, cooked 1,075,148 meals and assisted 402 charities. Our list of regular Read more…