As we look back on 2025, one thing is clear — it was a year of extraordinary impact. Thanks to rescued produce from generous farmers and supermarkets, alongside fresh food grown on FareShare farms, our dedicated chefs and volunteers cooked more than 3 million nutritious meals. Each one was prepared Read more…
5 things FareShare is looking forward to in 2025 2025 is shaping up to be a big year for FareShare. Here are five things we are looking forward to: 1. Ramping up production in our Abbotsford kitchen The major redevelopment of our Abbotsford kitchen, which finished in April 2024, gave
An update from the FareShare kitchens and kitchen gardens – December 2024 Our Brisbane and Melbourne kitchens are finishing the year strong. Collectively, the two kitchens have cooked more than 2.2 million free, nutritious meals for people in need across our communities in 2024! This is an even more astonishing
How FareShare meals help people from homelessness to housing at The Salvation Army homelessness centres and beyond FareShare meals now support residents at The Salvation Army homelessness accommodation centres in Flagstaff and North Melbourne, as well as former residents settling into more long-term housing. This partnership was only established in
FareShare Melbourne: cooking more meals, Meals for the Mob continues, Dingley farm gathers pace Cooking more meals for people who need them most Our Abbotsford chefs and volunteers are well and truly back into the swing of things in our revamped kitchen… July was an incredible month, with 110,345 meals
The FareShare Library Feeds Initiative takes off at the Kathleen Syme Library Free, nutritious FareShare meals can now be picked up at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre in Carlton, as part of an exciting pilot with the City of Melbourne called the FareShare Library Feeds Initiative. As of
Christmas meals connect people at risk of missing out A homestyle meal cooked with care by FareShare’s chefs and volunteers can make a world of difference to someone who has no home, family or friends to enjoy Christmas with. That’s why FareShare has been delivering traditional Christmas meals to people
How a FareShare meal can change the way someone feels FareShare aims for nothing less than transformation so when frontline charities use words like “life-changing” and “life-saving” to describe the impact of our meals, we know we are hitting the mark. Recently FareShare collected feedback from the organisations who hand Read more…
Get a sneak peek into the future of FareShare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gwOpKo7C28 FareShare urgently needs to expand our Melbourne kitchen and warehouse facility to boost our capacity to provide free meals on the scale required. The transformation of our site will add a third kitchen, boost our freezer, coolroom and storage capacity, Read more…
Reflections on a massive year for FareShare’s First Nations programs By Jason Mollenhauer, FareShare’s First Nations Officer Well, what a year! 2022 saw many firsts for FareShare. We celebrated our first accredited Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), hosted NAIDOC week events in Meanjin and Narrm, expanded our Meals for the Mob program, Read more…