Marnie Dixon decided to volunteer with FareShare because she witnessed first hand the benefits of our meals to struggling women and their families. The garden volunteer worked for more than 21 years as an outreach community nurse and midwife supporting Read more…
FareShare has a number of family members who volunteer together in our kitchens and gardens – couples, siblings, even parents and their children. Now some of those relationships have crossed state borders. Tracey joined our new Brisbane kitchen just after Read more…
For many of us Christmas lunch is one of the most nutritious meals of the year and a festive highlight. But it’s also the time when we spend the most and waste the most. This Christmas, Australians will discard more Read more…
Every night across Melbourne St Vincent de Paul Society’s Soup Vans serve FareShare soup to marginalised people struggling to access nutritious food. As the Vinnies Soup Vans tour boarding and rooming houses, commission homes and public sites where rough sleepers Read more…
Meet sisters Annie and Joh who’ve recently joined our volunteer family. Annie is an ex-chef with 32 years’ experience in hospitality so we were delighted to welcome her onto our kitchen crew. Annie has worked at Government House, the CBA Read more…
Horrific bushfires have ravaged farming communities in South East Queensland in one of the worst starts to the bushfire season. We were able to assist the recovery effort by sending 3,000 meals to the hard-hit country towns of Canungra and Stanthorpe. 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 Read more…
Just one year after we opened our Queensland kitchen, FareShare has cooked our millionth meal. But numbers don’t tell the real story. FareShare’s nutritious meals have proved life affirming for vulnerable Queenslanders from people sleeping rough in the city to Read more…
Howard first heard about FareShare when he found himself chatting to one of our volunteers on a dating app. They never met but Howard was encouraged to register his interest. FareShare sounded like a wonderful charity reducing food waste and Read more…
Last year kitchen volunteer Marisa Angelico recruited two of her crew members as well as some of her sisters and friends to participate in their first a2 Upstream Challenge. They called themselves “The Anti-Inflamms”. They had so much fun – Read more…