An open door and a hot meal deliver comfort in tough times FareShare meals are providing welcome relief to Brisbane’s West End where locals including many First Nations people face a mountain of challenges. “It’s food security, it’s the rental crisis, it’s the Covid crisis,” says Kylie Deen of West Read more…
FareShare meals bring a ‘taste of home’ to people in crisis Many people in our community face a bleak winter this year as the cost of living pushes the very essentials of life beyond their reach. A lack of affordable housing, steep rises in utilities, fuel and food are driving Read more…
FareShare meals bring a taste of home to flooded families When Echuca was flooded last October, the town was turned upside down and Echuca Neighbourhood House found itself at the forefront of food relief. “The floods hit and we were absolutely whacked,” said manager Sarah Peake. “We didn’t think food Read more…
How a FareShare meal can change the way someone feels FareShare aims for nothing less than transformation so when frontline charities use words like “life-changing” and “life-saving” to describe the impact of our meals, we know we are hitting the mark. Recently FareShare collected feedback from the organisations who hand Read more…
Get a sneak peek into the future of FareShare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gwOpKo7C28 FareShare urgently needs to expand our Melbourne kitchen and warehouse facility to boost our capacity to provide free meals on the scale required. The transformation of our site will add a third kitchen, boost our freezer, coolroom and storage capacity, Read more…
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…
Join us in cutting food waste This Food Waste Action Week the statistics on food waste continue to be staggering despite some 71 per cent of Australians being motivated to reduce their own food waste. For example, one third of all the world’s food is still wasted. That’s enough to Read more…
How a FareShare meal made Emma feel valued on Christmas Day Emma got in touch with FareShare early this year to thank us for the chicken curry she ate on Christmas Day. Although Emma spent the day alone, she said that our meal helped make her feel ‘valued and appreciated’. 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…
Reflections on a massive year for FareShare’s First Nations programs By Jason Mollenhauer, FareShare’s First Nations Officer Well, what a year! 2022 saw many firsts for FareShare. We celebrated our first accredited Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), hosted NAIDOC week events in Meanjin and Narrm, expanded our Meals for the Mob program, Read more…