Vanessa Bolton began volunteering in FareShare’s Melbourne kitchen in 2012 – the same year she started running ultra marathons. The two have gone together ever since. This year she has completed the 100km Oxfam Tailwalker and the 44km Rollercoaster in Read more…
Natalia has travelled a long way from her native Colombia to wind up as a FareShare volunteer. Her international journey started 10 years ago in the UK where she completed her Masters in industrial engineering and operational management at the Read more…
It’s Parched March and we need your help to cook more warming soups in Melbourne. Will you support the FareShare Parched March team of chefs, staff and volunteers as they give up their favourite treats to raise funds for a Read more…
FareShare chefs and volunteers reached a critical milestone this week by cooking a quarter of a million nutritious meals for vulnerable Queenslanders. Powered by local volunteers and supervised by experienced chefs, our new Brisbane kitchen provides vital food relief to Read more…
We are delighted to welcome Kate Stewart as our newest board member – a largely unsung volunteer role. Kate was appointed a board observer last year. Obviously she impressed and liked what she observed because she is now fully-fledged Read more…
Just three months after opening our super kitchen in Brisbane, FareShare achieved a milestone which took us 13 years in Melbourne. On January 24, we cooked more than 5,000 nutritious meals in a single day. A combination of skilled chefs, Read more…
Disadvantaged Queenslanders who haven’t enjoyed a roast lunch in years are raving about the quality of FareShare meals cooked in our new Brisbane kitchen. “Wow”, “amazing”, “fantastic” was just some of the feedback from last Saturday’s free lunch served by Read more…
FareShare is hosting an Open Garden at our Abbotsford Kitchen Garden on Saturday March 16 to share the secrets of growing vegetables at scale in Melbourne. The Open Gardens Victoria event will show how a former waste ground on VicTrack Read more…
Every year FareShare chefs go the extra mile to bring Christmas to people doing it tough. 2018’s highlight was once again catering for Father Bob’s Maguire’s traditional Christmas lunch for 380 marginalised people at St Kilda Town Hall. Thanks to Read more…
Volunteering in the FareShare kitchen is a meaningful and tangible way of making a difference in our community, but for one corporate volunteer it was personal. Aleisha’s experience of losing her job and being threatened with homelessness came flooding back Read more…