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A Christmas Carol audiences help provide meals for people doing it tough

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…

By James Holgate, 7 monthsJanuary 21, 2026 ago

SecondBite box filled with FareShare Meals

Food insecurity

SecondBite and FareShare merger marks first anniversary

One year on from the landmark merger between SecondBite and FareShare, we are celebrating a 30% surge in meal production and a 8% increase in rescued food. Since joining forces on July 1, 2024, we’ve been able to supercharge our national food relief efforts – transforming surplus food into millions Read more…

By Stacy Allen, 1 yearJuly 1, 2025 ago

Food Waste

Zero Waste Pantry Pasta Recipe

Servings: 4 Ingredients 340g pasta (any variety you have on hand) 45ml olive oil (approx. 3 tablespoons) 3-4 cloves garlic, minced (or dried garlic powder if you don’t have fresh) 400g can of diced tomatoes (or use leftover fresh tomatoes that are about to turn) 30g tomato paste (approx. 2 Read more…

By Fare Share, 1 yearMarch 18, 2025 ago

Food Waste

Join us in cutting food waste

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…

By Fare Share, 3 yearsMarch 9, 2023 ago

Food Waste

Restaurant quality fish on FareShare menu after COVID heartbreak

People struggling to put food on the table will be enjoying salmon and other fish delicacies after a COVID-positive customer at the Prahran Market forced traders to shut for cleaning. An incredible 400kg of fresh fish including salmon, kingfish, prawns, scallops, squid, and mussels was donated to FareShare by Periwinkle Read more…

By Fare Share, 5 yearsJuly 26, 2021 ago

Food Waste

Chef Dion’s recipe for fighting Christmas food waste

Big Christmas gatherings risk big Christmas food waste but FareShare chef Dion Kemsley is in a unique position to offer solutions. “I’ve been a chef all my life,” says Dion, who was employed at Caulfield Racecourse before his work dried up in Melbourne’s lockdown. “I was told people have got Read more…

By Fare Share, 6 yearsDecember 21, 2020 ago

Food Waste

Saving nutrition at Christmas

For many of us Christmas lunch is one of the most nutritious meals of the year and a festive highlight. But it’s also the time when we spend the most and waste the most. This Christmas, Australians will discard more than one quarter of the food they buy, much of Read more…

By Fare Share, 7 yearsDecember 18, 2019 ago

Brisbane

Countdown on for new Brisbane kitchen

Kellie inspects the Foodbank Queensland warehouse which will supply us with ingredients and distribute our cooked meals FareShare’s exciting new Brisbane venture to create nutritious meals for Queenslanders is rapidly taking shape. We now have the keys to our new Morningside facility– a former serum laboratory – close to Foodbank Read more…

By Fare Share, 9 yearsJanuary 31, 2018 ago

Brisbane

FareShare takes off to Queensland

Kellie contemplates the possibilities of creating nutritious meals in the Sunshine State where Foodbank rescues 40 tonnes of food a day FareShare is expanding to Queensland to dramatically increase the number of free ready-to-eat meals available for Australians in need. As Australia’s biggest charity kitchen, we have signed an agreement Read more…

By Fare Share, 9 yearsSeptember 18, 2017 ago

Food donation

Vans on a mission

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…

By Fare Share, 10 yearsSeptember 16, 2016 ago