An inspiring volunteer-run hub for food relief is helping people facing hardship across Naarm/Melbourne’s outer east put food on the table. The dedicated team of around 80 volunteers at Wantirna’s Outer East Foodshare (OEF) collect surplus food from local supermarkets, as well as receiving deliveries of ready-to-eat FareShare meals and Read more…
From the moment people seeking food relief come through the colourfully painted door at Thornbury Church of Christ they are treated with kindness and respect. When the SecondBite team visited the food relief program on a Wednesday, the comforting smell of baked goods wafted to the door as the friendly faces of volunteers greeted us. The church chapel was set up as a Community Hub with round tables and chairs, a tea and coffee station and a snack table for Read more…
Over the 2025 festive season, the Melbourne production of A Christmas Carol partnered with FareShare to help provide meals for people struggling to put food on the table. Across the season, audiences attending performances at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre were invited to donate to support FareShare’s work, helping raise $182,747 – which will provide 52,213 nutritious meals for people facing hardship. The partnership reflected the 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…
FareShare has received a huge nutrition boost with our biggest ever food donation – 55,760 litres of passata! The 44 drums of Italian-style tomato puree were generously provided by SPC. According to FareShare’s Kellie Watson, the ‘red gold’ will create around 372,000 meals when paired with meat and veggies or Read more…
Pig farmer Tim Kingma with diced pork perfect for FareShare casseroles Meat is often the first sacrifice for families struggling to put food on the table making it a critical ingredient for the FareShare kitchen. FareShare cooks 5,000 meals every day from rescued food for people doing it tough. Sourcing sufficient Read more…
Jose Cambon with chef Crickette adding mushroom stems – & nutrition – to a casserole We have a wonderful new ingredient which is cropping up in almost every FareShare meal – mushrooms! The welcome boon is due to an exciting collaboration with Costa, which boasts the largest mushroom farm in Read more…
Here’s a cool food rescue from another rescue organisation with a very different mission – saving marine life. FareShare has just collected a donation of ship’s dry stores from the Steve Irwin, Sea Shepherd’s flagship 59 metre vessel, while docked in Williamstown. The donated food including flour, quinoa, superfood bars, Read more…
It’s going to be a long night in the FareShare warehouse sorting six vans of rescued food from the Fine Food Australia expo. Well done to Pat for leading the massive mission & our crew of volunteers for picking up everything from beautiful beef to fabulous flour. FareShare undertook our Read more…