Who We Are

What We Do

Our Staff & Board

Our History

FareShare, formerly known as One Umbrella, is an innovative, energetic organisation, rescuing food and fighting hunger.

Since 2001 we have given away healthy, nutritious meals to the hungry and the homeless in Victoria, using food donated by businesses. By ‘rescuing’ food, we mean that it would otherwise be wasted, ending up in landfill. And in saving food from landfill, we also do our bit for the planet by helping to cut methane pollution.

We are a small, not-for-profit community organisation operating on a very small budget, and with no operational funding from government. But through the tremendous passion and commitment of staff, volunteers and supporters, we continue to increase the amount of food we rescue and nutritious meals we prepare and give away to charities.


In May 2008 we moved into our wonderful new kitchen facility, the funds for which were kindly donated. We can’t thank the donors enough for their generosity! The new kitchen has increased our capacity substantially and we need more food, more volunteers and more funds because our goal is

To give away 2 million meals a year.

every $10 donated to FareShare provides 25 nutritious meals

rescuing food. fighting hunger