Time away from the workplace in FareShare’s kitchens or kitchen garden is a fantastic way to make a real social impact, re-connect with your team and build positive relationships within your organisation.

Corporate volunteers have been powering FareShare for more than 17 years.

Bookings for our 2023 corporate volunteering program have been so popular that we are fully booked for the rest of 2023. 

If you are interested in booking a corporate volunteering experience for 2024, please email rosemary.kelly@fareshare.net.au .

Your support through volunteering makes a real difference – we are very excited about returning to our redeveloped, state-of-the-art kitchens in Abbotsford early in the new year. 

We look forward to welcoming you to FareShare in 2024.

Corporate volunteering in our temporary kitchen at Alphington

Build relationships and have fun while processing food and cooking and packing thousands of meals for people in need.
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Fully booked for 2023

Corporate volunteering in our temporary kitchen at Alphington

Build relationships and have fun while processing food and cooking and packing thousands of meals for people in need.
Find out more
Fully booked for 2023

Corporate volunteering in our Abbotsford kitchen garden

Help weed, mulch, fertilise, harvest, compost and propagate vegetables and herbs in our beautiful inner city garden.
Find out more
Fully booked for 2023

Corporate volunteering in our Abbotsford kitchen garden

Help weed, mulch, fertilise, harvest, compost and propagate vegetables and herbs in our beautiful inner city garden.
Find out more
Fully booked for 2023

Team building with social impact

FareShare offers a unique, meaningful and popular corporate volunteering experience for organisations large and small.

We open up our high-volume kitchen in Abbotsford for half-day shifts for colleagues to build relationships and have fun while processing food and cooking and packing thousands of meals for people in need.

Guided by our experienced supervisors, participants process and prepare freshly harvested and rescued vegetables, roll pastry, bake quiches, crack eggs, and cook and pack sausage rolls or vegie rolls or single-serve meals. They will also learn about food waste, food rescue and food poverty in our city.

FareShare also offers corporate volunteering opportunities at our Abbotsford Kitchen Garden on Friday mornings where volunteers weed, mulch, fertilise, harvest, compost and propagate vegetables and herbs.

Feedback has been glowing and some corporate volunteers have gone on to become regular volunteers. Importantly, everyone leaves feeling more connected and knowing they have made a direct social impact.

More than 750 organisations have already volunteered at FareShare including

  • Accenture
  • Aesop
  • AGL
  • AMP
  • Bongiorno Group
  • Citywide
  • Cargill
  • Clayton Utz
  • Computershare
  • Deloitte
  • Finspo
  • Fonterra
  • KPMG
  • Microsoft
  • NAB
  • Nelson Alexander
  • Pitcher Partners
  • Plantfulness/AMES
  • RACV
  • Salesforce
  • Specsavers
  • Sportsbet
  • University of Melbourne
  • Woolworths

Feedback on the experience

On behalf of our team at Officeworks, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Rosie and Alex (the chef on duty on Wednesday) for making us feel welcomed into your kitchen! We had a wonderful time, bonding as a team while doing something meaningful. We were so pleased to hear that our small contribution and efforts on the day resulted in over 600 meals being prepared for those who are in much need of them. FareShare is enabling and delivering a worthy cause and we were honoured to play a very small part. Thank you once again.
Chenade Rodrigues
Chenade RodriguesBusiness Program Manager, Officeworks
As well as learning about the huge support Fareshare provides to thousands of Victorians doing it tough, we found our time volunteering at FareShare one of the highlights of our year. We worked hard assembling hundreds of delicious meals, preparing 70kg of kohlrabi (I had ever heard of kohrabi before!), packaging hundreds of sausage rolls and cleaning and re-setting the kitchen, and whilst we did all of this we CONNECTED with each other and talked. What an immensely rewarding experience with the fabulous SEIVA team. Thank you FareShare for having us. We will be back!
Terri Green
Terri GreenSEIVA
Once we donned our aprons and hairnets we headed into the kitchen where all the fun began. We were split into 2 groups and in true Signature style we went into competitive mode, preparing as many meals as we could and encouraging everyone to go faster. Again, the key word here was team. We gave up our cosy lounge rooms to volunteer in a cold kitchen to help those less fortunate. We may have had cold hands but we had warm hearts...It is a very rewarding team day and a great experience for employees looking to give back.”
Jacqui Sanders
Jacqui SandersSignature Floors
Thank you for the opportunity to volunteer at FareShare. It was a truly rewarding, but sadly an eye-opening experience. I think I live in my own little bubble; I was both shocked and saddened to hear of the numbers of people that are now having to make decisions between pay a bill to keep a roof over their head or putting food on the table – hard to believe that this is happening in our “Lucky” country.
Janine Beckwith
Janine BeckwithMelbourne Archdiosese Catholic Schools (MACS)
It's amazing what can be achieved in a morning under the guidance of chef Arnel in the kitchen. Anna and I thoroughly enjoyed our time with you and will highly recommend it to our team. Congratulations on making such a huge contribution to the wellbeing of people in need.
Margaret Mote
Margaret MoteCEO, Bongiorno Group
The day was inspirational and triggered discussions on how we as individuals can contribute more to our communities. There was something powerful in knowing we were creating a visceral difference in other’s lives. Thank you for all you do and your team, changing lives!
Elizabeth Hungerford-Morgan
Elizabeth Hungerford-MorganHines
The Ford Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering team thanks FareShare for making our corporate volunteering event a successful and wonderful experience at their new Derrimut facility. We were impressed by how well the program was organised, from initial planning to onsite induction and supervision. We found FareShare’s sustainability mindset to be very much aligned with our values at Ford. FareShare’s main objective – to support the basic human right to access nutritious food, was reinforced by an ethos to reduce waste, use renewable energy and minimise their environmental footprint. We look forward to future corporate volunteering events at FareShare.
Sophia ChongFord of Australia
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Other ways to support FareShare

In addition to volunteering in our kitchen, there are other ways you can support us through running a food drive or fundraising for us.

If you would like to learn more about running a food drive or fundraising at your workplace, please get in touch by emailing info@fareshare.net.au. Our needs constantly change, so please contact us before you get started. 

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