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…
He may have just turned 99 but that doesn’t stop WW2 veteran Alec from nipping out on his scooter to pick up FareShare meals from his local veterans’ association every week. “It’s a fantastic service and the meals are so tasty,” says the ex-Royal Air Force serviceman. “My favourite meal Read more…
FareShare now has 1,000 volunteers who give up their time to rescue, cook, grow and transport food in Melbourne and 325 who help out in our new Brisbane kitchen. “We are so proud of our community of volunteers who make FareShare’s mission possible,” said Volunteer Manager Rosemary Kelly. “With a 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…