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 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 Read more…
Big Christmas gatherings risk big Christmas food waste but FareShare chef Dion Kemsley is in a unique position to offer solutions. “I’ve been a chef all my life,” says Dion, who was employed at Caulfield Racecourse before his work dried 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 Read more…
No matter the job, he’s always there for our chefs. Now Vaughn Hindle, who provides free kitchen maintenance services donated by Woolworths, is literally going the extra mile. He’s running his first marathon to support FareShare on Saturday. Vaughn has Read more…
Nothing is more critical to keeping up with demand for FareShare meals than our ovens. Working 16 hours a day, six days a week, each oven can cook 1,800 meals a day. We desperately need to raise $100,000 to replace Read more…
A free, nutritious meal meant so much to one international student, she signed up as a volunteer and joined the FareShare FootSteps Challenge. “In recent difficult times, a meal of great nutritional value came to me,” said Alexandra Calderon, who Read more…
FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho has personally delivered the 250,000th free, nutritious meal to the LaTrobe Valley and Gippsland region. Our Abbotsford kitchen has been cooking healthy meals for around 20 frontline Gippsland charities since 2013 and they have never been Read more…
Our chefs and volunteers made it a true Red Letter Day in Brisbane by tackling pallets of tomatoes as the kitchen celebrated its second birthday. Since opening in Morningside on 9 October in 2018, FareShare’s second high-volume kitchen has cooked Read more…
The vital work of nourishing people through COVID-19 is far from done with queues of people continuing to amass outside emergency food relief centres. With many people experiencing food poverty for the first time, FareShare has cooked around 2.5 million Read more…