Free FareShare meals and human contact boost wellbeing at The Wellington The Wellington is a community drop-in centre in Collingwood, VIC. It opened in mid-2020 and runs food services featuring FareShare meals on Mondays and Thursdays, predominantly for residents in the nearby housing estates. FareShare meals are also offered on-the-spot Read more…
Food key to bringing Rochester back When you visit Rochester, you quickly understand that flood recovery is complex, frustrating and hard. You realise that the most basic needs like food, warmth, shelter and friendship are priorities. You can read newspapers and watch television reports of floods. But until you talk Read more…
Proud moment for FareShare’s Schools in the Kitchen program All at FareShare take great pride in our work and achievements. Particularly when we encourage others to help us prepare nutritious meals for people and communities in need. We know the people who receive the meals benefit and are truly grateful. Read more…
Rochester rebuilds with hope How do you rebuild an entire community like Rochester? It starts with determined and caring residents. People who are prepared to manage their own immediate needs as well as their neighbours’. Jenna Jenna Harvey works at Rochester Community House. She lives in a backyard granny flat Read more…
An open door and a hot meal deliver comfort in tough times FareShare meals are providing welcome relief to Brisbane’s West End where locals including many First Nations people face a mountain of challenges. “It’s food security, it’s the rental crisis, it’s the Covid crisis,” says Kylie Deen of West Read more…
FareShare meals bring a ‘taste of home’ to people in crisis Many people in our community face a bleak winter this year as the cost of living pushes the very essentials of life beyond their reach. A lack of affordable housing, steep rises in utilities, fuel and food are driving Read more…
FareShare meals bring a taste of home to flooded families When Echuca was flooded last October, the town was turned upside down and Echuca Neighbourhood House found itself at the forefront of food relief. “The floods hit and we were absolutely whacked,” said manager Sarah Peake. “We didn’t think food Read more…
How a FareShare meal can change the way someone feels FareShare aims for nothing less than transformation so when frontline charities use words like “life-changing” and “life-saving” to describe the impact of our meals, we know we are hitting the mark. Recently FareShare collected feedback from the organisations who hand Read more…
How a FareShare meal made Emma feel valued on Christmas Day Emma got in touch with FareShare early this year to thank us for the chicken curry she ate on Christmas Day. Although Emma spent the day alone, she said that our meal helped make her feel ‘valued and appreciated’. Read more…
FareShare meals meet growing need for food relief in Melbourne’s northwest The queue of cars backed up to the street illustrates the current demand for emergency food relief at Helping Hands Airport West, one of the hundreds of charities that hand out FareShare meals to people doing it tough. When Read more…