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…
First Nations meals a FareShare priority FareShare is collaborating with First Nations communities to reduce food insecurity. We are partnering with First Nations groups to provide tasty meals to regional and remote areas where it is difficult to access affordable, nutritious food. A team from Origin Foundation participate in a 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…
Get a sneak peek into the future of FareShare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gwOpKo7C28 FareShare urgently needs to expand our Melbourne kitchen and warehouse facility to boost our capacity to provide free meals on the scale required. The transformation of our site will add a third kitchen, boost our freezer, coolroom and storage capacity, Read more…