If you’d like to take part in a food drive for FareShare, please email Patrick Lanyon patrick.lanyon@fareshare.net.au. Our rescue vans will collect 100kg or more of priority ingredients from the Melbourne metro area.
Whether a school, business, community group or bunch of friends, you can run a food drive to help us source priority ingredients for our kitchen. Our needs constantly change, so please contact us before you get started.
Right now are chefs are particularly short of honey, castor sugar, tinned legumes, vegetable oil, olive oil, white rice and baking paper.
Domestic household donations
Please note that only the following foods can be accepted from domestic households or businesses that are not registered food businesses:
- Tinned tomatoes
- Vegetable oil
- Dried herbs and spices
- White rice
- Flour
- Tinned and dried lentils and chickpeas
- Tinned and dried cannellini and borlotti beans
- UHT milk
These donations must also meet the following conditions:
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Be within use-by date or no more than six months past
best-before date - Have packaging intact and undamaged (with no signs of pest of pest activity)
- Be fully labelled with all ingredients in English
FareShare cannot accept the following products from domestic households or businesses that are not registered food premise:
- Meat, poultry, fish or products containing them
- Refrigerates dairy products or products containing them
- Eggs
- Home grown vegetables or fruit