An update from the FareShare kitchens and kitchen gardens – December 2024 Our Brisbane and Melbourne kitchens are finishing the year strong. Collectively, the two kitchens have cooked more than 2.2 million free, nutritious meals for people in need across our communities in 2024! This is an even more astonishing
FareShare Melbourne: cooking more meals, Meals for the Mob continues, Dingley farm gathers pace Cooking more meals for people who need them most Our Abbotsford chefs and volunteers are well and truly back into the swing of things in our revamped kitchen… July was an incredible month, with 110,345 meals
Legendary Gas Gals praise FareShare meals that ‘awaken the senses’ The ‘Gas Gals’ who taught a generation of Victorians to cook reunited in the FareShare kitchen after 35 years. Long before Masterchef, the Gas Cookery Service team of home economists ran mass cooking classes, school programs and an expert Read more…
Why volunteer at FareShare? FareShare completed another huge year in 2022 – our 21st. Together we cooked more than two million meals, grew 100 tonnes of vegetables, responded to natural disasters and shared our nutritious meals with the most remote communities we’ve ever reached. Undoubtedly, one of our biggest highlights Read more…
On any given day, the staff and volunteers at the Abbotsford garden get asked about the history of the site, what it’s currently being used for, and how it came to be a kitchen garden that grows vegetables to help people doing it tough. And while our staff and volunteers Read more…
Better together: a tale of two volunteers Jennie and Nans both roll up their sleeves to give back but their journeys to FareShare have been very different. Jennie is a die-hard volunteer who gives her time to numerous charities and has supported FareShare for more than nine years. Nans came 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…
As Australia celebrates National Volunteer Week, FareShare has novel plans to recognise our wonderful 1,500-strong unpaid work force in Victoria and Queensland. While social distancing measures have caused FareShare to suspend 800 of our regular kitchen volunteers in Melbourne and 445 in Brisbane, their contribution will not be forgotten. In 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…
Meet ‘tuck shop mum’ Kate who’s about to receive her five-year service certificate along with 52 other FareShare volunteers. Kate, pictured below right with fellow volunteer Jan, was looking for a hands on role that would give her greater purpose when she heard about FareShare from a friend. She checked Read more…