Recent storms have added to the misery of COVID restrictions for many Victorians. Dining Room Mission in Croydon Hills lost three months’ worth of food when power was cut. FareShare kitchen volunteer Jack Merx runs the meal service which feeds between 50 and 75 people including rough sleepers and families Read more…
FareShare congratulates our President, David Harris, on his Order of Australia for ‘service to the community through charitable organisations’. David has served on the FareShare board for 17 years bringing a wealth of business, logistics and mass production skills to help grow FareShare from a nomadic group of volunteer cooks Read more…
Our chefs know they’ve made a difference to someone’s life when they take the trouble to call and say they just eaten their BEST ever meal! Single dad Daniel picked up a food hamper at his local church in Adelaide after losing his job. To his surprise, along with bread Read more…
Volunteer power trumps COVID as FareShare welcomes back our full unpaid community at the start of National Volunteer Week. For the first time in 15 months, our regular, corporate and school volunteers will work hand in hand with chefs in FareShare’s Melbourne kitchen. They join FareShare’s unpaid workforce in Queensland Read more…
This year FareShare has adopted a very special goal – to boost the impact of EVERY FareShare meal on the person who receives it. Our chefs and volunteers have been taking our meals to a new level. We are determined to cook not just enough meals to nourish people who Read more…
Our new Melbourne warehouse was always predicted to be a gamechanger but it proved to be absolutely critical during FareShare’s response to COVID-19. Almost every ingredient rescued or donated, and every cooked meal, now passes through the Derrimut warehouse which began operations in 2018. A committed team operates FareShare’s backend Read more…
The Maori words Tautoko Whanau roughly translate to “extended family support” and that’s exactly what Melbourne’s Tautoko Whanau (MTW) provides to its community. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been particularly tough for Victoria’s New Zealand community with many Kiwis losing their jobs and unable to qualify for JobKeeper Read more…
If one person can sum up the misery of 2020, it’s Nick. He is one of tens of thousands of people who received FareShare meals for the first time this year after losing his work, his mother and an enormous amount of weight during COVID. “Never in my wildest Read more…
FareShare chef Thea Whitaker moved to Melbourne in 2019 after meeting Australian partner Rama in the African jungle on the set of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of here! Hailing from Cape Town, she was living in a tent and cooking meals for 400 crew from a 24-hour outdoor Read more…
The people our chefs and volunteers cook for are always front of mind when we prepare our nutritious meals. Receiving a review from a meal recipient is a gift. Ryan, a former chef, shared his feedback after picking up a FareShare meal during COVID. Here’s what he thought: I Read more…