This year FareShare has adopted a very special goal this year – to boost the impact of EVERY FareShare meal on the person who receives it. Our chefs and volunteers have been taking our meals to a new level. We are determined to cook not just enough meals to nourish Read more…
Our new Melbourne warehouse was always predicted to be a gamechanger but it proved to be absolutely critical during FareShare’s response to COVID-19. Almost every ingredient rescued or donated, and every cooked meal, now passes through the Derrimut warehouse which began operations in 2018. A committed team operates FareShare’s backend Read more…
The Maori words Tautoko Whanau roughly translate to “extended family support” and that’s exactly what Melbourne’s Tautoko Whanau (MTW) provides to its community. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been particularly tough for Victoria’s New Zealand community with many Kiwis losing their jobs and unable to qualify for JobKeeper Read more…
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 enormous amount of weight during COVID. “Never in my wildest 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 and cooking meals for 400 crew from a 24-hour outdoor 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 up in Melbourne’s lockdown. “I was told people have got 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 FareShare meal during COVID. Here’s what he thought: I 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 been an invaluable help to our Melbourne kitchen over the 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 two. Our ageing ovens are now so worn out they 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 is studying in Brisbane. “I thought, behind this meal, there Read more…